There's one food we missed on our trip to Italy last spring. Don't worry it isn't gelato. We got plenty of that. The food we missed was focaccia bread. I've always like the herbed flatbread, but I've never had it at a nice restaurant or homemade. Making this at home really makes me think we need to go back to Italy and try some real focaccia....

Dustin isn't a mushroom guy, but I love them and would put them on just about every dinner I make! So when I promise to make him something delicious, even if it has mushrooms like this risotto from Creative Culinary, he'll eat them for me. What a good guy I found. I've wanted to try to risotto for awhile, and I really wanted to find a recipe...

This sandwich is definitely not low fat— lots of avocado and gooey cheese— but not flavor. We slathered a layer of guacamole, a slice of Havarti cheese (we did use lite, so it was a tad healthier), and a few slices of tomato on deliciously baked sourdough bread. Then we grilled the sandwich up on the stove until the bread was nice and crispy...

It's Super Bowl time! We are ready for some football, and FRIES! Yes, homemade fries! Who knew making homemade, baked fries could be so delicious? Dustin and I thought the only way we'd ever get good fries was to get them at a restaurant (deep fried), but we have since changed our mind after trying a super simple tapas fry recipe. All you have...

Everybody, I'd like you to meet the perfect chocolate cookie. Perfect chocolate cookie, meet everyone. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Dustin has been begging me to make brown butter chocolate chip cookies again, but I haven't because I want to try new things. He changed his tune after tasting these. I think this...

Dustin and I've been talking about making a trip to San Francisco together for as long as I can remember. I've never been, but always wanted to go, and Dustin has been a number of times and has told me about all of the fabulous things to do and places to eat. We already have an itinerary planned out for a nonexistent trip. One of our plans is to...

What's better than a quiet evening, sitting on the couch watching a fun movie with your family and eating popcorn? All of that except make the popcorn caramel corn. But instead of going through the process of making my own caramel syrup, I used the jar of fleur de sel caramel sauce from Trader Joe's we had sitting in the fridge, thus making...

Drunken spaghetti— spaghetti cooked in red wine. It's so simple. I can't believe we've never thought to try that on our own. After seeing this recipe and knowing we had Kalamata olives and capers in the fridge, I was sold. We had to try this recipe this week. This dish is so incredibly simple it's astounding. Cook the pasta until al dente,...

My mom always tried to get me to eat carrot cake when I was younger, but carrots in a cake? I didn't like carrots, and I didn't want a delicious cake ruined by a gross orange vegetable, so naturally I refused to even try it. But it's really amazing how you can change to the flavor of something by adding a bunch of sugar. Now carrot cake is...

Dustin and I love making unique pizzas and we love bagels and smoked salmon for breakfast, so when I stumbled across this recipe for Smoked Salmon pizza while searching for healthy fish recipes, I was hooked on the combination. We made our homemade pizza dough and added some chopped red onion before we placed the dough in the oven. The other...