I know it hasn't been that long since I've made chicken pot pies, and I've made a vow to not repeat recipes. But I promise this is not a repeat. These chicken pot pie muffins (the original post refers to them as cupcakes, but that sounds too dessert-y to me) are quite different. They looked so darn adorable in the pictures, I had to make them...

I'd only had a savory scallion pancake once before, but I really enjoyed them. I'm probably biased to like them by the word pancake in the title even though these pancakes aren't sweet or covered in maple syrup. I found a very basic recipe online and followed it exactly, frying these pancakes up on the stove. We served these scallion...

Orange chicken is another of my favorite Chinese foods. I love the complex combination of citrus, sweet, and spicy. I hate the fried aspect of the dish and not knowing exactly how many calories those Chinese restaurants put in that orange sauce. The best way to remedy these problems? Make it at home, healthified. First we decided to bake the...

The day we arrived in Seattle on our visit last spring, we stopped at an Italian restaurant called Barolo right by our hotel downtown. I had this fabulous creamy pasta with smoked salmon off of a prix fixe lunch promotional menu. It was my first taste of the Northwest, and I still think of this pasta to this day. I wanted to develop a more...

Passover is long gone, but we still had matzo (matzah?) leftover, which I know for Dustin means just one thing— fried matzo or matzo brei as I've been seeing it called on the Internet. Matzo soaked in water or milk, then cooked in the frying pan with eggs is a great base for some delicious breakfasts— both sweet and savory. We made both kinds—...

We are officially back from Jamaica, and back to real life after wedding festivities in Texas, a mini break in Washington,  and our honeymoon in Jamaica. Everything about the wedding was such a blur, it seems as though it didn't really happen. But indeed now we are married, which is pretty cool to say. We were told we would feel different, but...

We are back from our honeymoon at Sandals Whitehouse in Jamaica, and I now pronounce our wedding to be officially over. Jamaica was fabulous. The weather was a perfect, hot contrast to cloudy Washington. The sand was soft and warm, the skies were (mostly) blue and the water a brilliant turquoise. Normally Dustin and I aren't one for...

TODAY IS OUR WEDDING DAY! That can only mean one thing— lots of cake! Well maybe it means more than just that, but there will be lots of cake at today's festivities :) Given the copious amounts of cake consumption that will be occurring and as a way to celebrate what a special day it is, today seemed like a good time to discuss the cake batter...

It's the Friday before our wedding! Time for a drink! We've discussed our affinity for coconut creme pie as it relates to our engagement, so we recently created our own at-home cocktail version of the dessert. We combined equal ratios of Malibu coconut rum, Bailey's Irish cream, and coconut milk, shaken over ice and poured into a cocktail glass...

Before Dustin and I really started experimenting with our food, we made the same six or seven dishes over and over again. Pretty much every week we made some sort of chicken taco dish, one of our favorites. One version was a sour cream chicken taco where we'd finish cooking the chunks of chicken in some sour cream. It had been way too long since...