Best cheeseburgers ever. For the last few weeks of August, we are able to stock up on freshly roasted Hatch Chiles at our Whole Foods shipped in from New Mexico. We've pretty much been putting Hatch Chiles on everything we eat from our bagels and cream cheese at breakfast to sandwiches at lunch to these cheeseburgers for dinner. The...

The combination of white beans, bacon, and zucchini fritters from 20 Something Cupcakes (quickly becoming one of my favorite blogs for delicious and creative recipes), lightly fried and drenched in basil aioli seemed like a perfect complement to a simply grilled flank steak marinated in a mixture of basic spices, olive oil, and soy...

The second Chopped challenge is off, and like Chris, I chose a cuisine that I knew I could excel in. For me, that would be an ultimate burger in miniature form. The slider. Challenge #2 went down in my kitchen, and I got to use a new toy. Let me lead with the competition burger. Be warned. Chris put together a true challenger. Bacon...

Ever since I saw this recipe for skirt steak with squash, chimichurri, and goat cheese on 20 Something Cupcakes, I could not stop dreaming about this flavor combination. We grilled the skirt steak outside one glorious Seattle evening, but we made a notable change to the chimichurri, making it the traditional way with pasrsley. Dustin really...

Great shortcut dinner inspired by The Pastry Queen Cookbook AKA one of the best purchases ever! This flavor combination was really intriguing to me, (possibly weird to others, but oh well) and since we know Trader Joe's makes a pretty decent already cooked brisket, we decided to make this one night when we were super busy. All you have to do...

We wanted to do a great bbq cookout to celebrate the start of summer. We settled on cooking up an interesting kind of burger and doing everything ourselves. That meant, the patty, the bun, and even the fries. It was an extravagant meal to pull off, and although we stumbled a few times, it all came together eventually. The buns came from a...

We love them, but Reuben sandwiches at a deli are expensive. Thankfully we have found a more economical way to get our Reuben fix— make them at home. We bought rye bread from Macrina Bakery, picked up some corned beef from a Stopsky's, aJewish deli (more expensive than from the grocery store, but much more tasty), used the sauerkraut we...

Oh Lupe Tortilla, how we miss you. After my trip to back to Houston, it finally hit me that with my parents moving, I won't be visiting Texas as often, which can only mean one thing. Good-bye frequent Tex Mex (and when I'm back in April, I'm eating Lupe at least twice). Since we've moved up here, I've made it back to my home state every couple...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! If Guinness in your dessert isn't enough for you to celebrate everyone's favorite Irish holiday, add it to your dinner, too! We are actually in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada (coming back before things get too crazy on the strip tonight) for St. Patrick's Day, but we celebrated a few days early with a mini pot roast cooked...

Lunchbox Laboratory, Seattle's gourmet hamburger joint recently opened in Bellevue (I'm sure we'll share more of the delicious details later), and we are pretty stoked. At our first visit to this hamburger joint, I had the Burger of the Gods, covered with blue cheese, a great cheese to take a boring hamburger to fabulous cheeseburger. Next time...