No football for us today as a result of our Thanksgiving victory! But for one of the earlier Texans game this season, we decided to try our hand at a bit of deep frying. We had our Italian friend over to watch, so we wanted to incorporate a bit of Italian cuisine in too. So, deep fried meatballs! There was a yummy looking recipe in Bon Appetit...

One of our new discoveries in Seattle has been poutine, a delectable dish from our brethren just north in Canada. It's Canada's version of chili-cheese fries. Except that the chili is beef gravy, and the nacho or melted cheese becomes cheese curds. It really is just "fancy" cheese fries, but it makes you feel so much more sophisticated digging...

We went out to dinner at a new restaurant in Bellevue that specializes in Neapolitan pizza. The pizzas were good, but nothing spectacular. It's no Serious Pie. The best thing we ate was the appetizer— a white bean dip kicked up a notch with rosemary. The next day we were looking for a light and healthy lunch that didn't require much planning or...

I'd never heard of buffalo chicken dip until recently, but lately it's been all the rage, including being featured on a recent episode of ABC's Shark Tank. The original recipe comes from Frank's Red Hot, and it really does include all of the important elements of a chicken wing, but we made some modifications based on our flavor preferences....

Pizza dip is a delicious party snack and really incorporates all of the flavors of pizza. I saw a million different recipes last year and remembered that basically this dip is a creamy bottom layer topped with marinara sauce, cheese, and any pizza toppings you wish. Of course I chose pepperoni as my main pizza topping. If I was just making this...

Dustin said if there are two words that turn him off to a dish, they are "broccoli" (or any other vegetable I'm sure) and "casserole," but let me tell ya, this is the way to eat your broccoli, or any other vegetable for that matter. I've always really enjoyed broccoli with cheese (with a low broccoli to cheese ratio, of course), and in the last...

These are so much better than the taquitos you buy from the frozen section of the grocery store, plus they are baked, not fried, so they are healthier! There are a million different recipes out there, but we wanted to adjust the ingredients to our own taste preferences, so we threw our own recipe together. Success! First, we took uncooked...

I'm slightly embarrassed to admit how much I love chile con queso and how much I ate it as a child. Whenever we'd eat at a Mexican restaurant (which was a lot), I'd order a bowl and munch on cheese covered chips as my entire dinner. At this point in my life I was a picky eater, so I guess my parents were just happy to have me eat. Now I cringe...

We spent an entire day in the kitchen preparing for our party. It was stressful and exhausting making sure everything got done and coordinating the components of a bunch of different dishes. But in the end it was all totally worth it to cater our own party. I have immense respect for caterers now after all that work. We were only planning for 17...

Now that June has rolled around, I think this is the official start of burger grilling season— something I'm sure Dustin and I will be doing quite a bit this summer. A few weeks ago when we were having nice weather, we cooked up a fantastic patty with beef and ground pork with our neighbors. We also decided we wanted to try our hand at making...