I love cinnamon rolls. I have a special list of variations on a cinnamon roll that I want to try. Apple cinnamon rolls are one variation that I can now cross off of that list. My cinnamon roll list is one that just keeps growing and growing, but I rarely get to cross off. When I saw this recipe for apple cinnamon rolls with Jack Daniel's cream...

Today I am heading to Texas! I am really excited for this trip. The last time I was in Texas I got married, so of course, that trip was awesome, but things were a little crazy. This time around, I get to see my extended family, old friends from high school, and I get to see college friends as well celebrate Rice's Centennial. I also get to...

Surprisingly, one of the things we miss most about Texas is breakfast tacos. Amazingly enough, nobody seems to serve them out here. Apparently they are a Texas phenomenon. These breakfast tacos definitely aren't the kind you'd get late night at Taco C or Dustin's personal favorite place, Taco Palenque—no chorizo and egg or bean and cheese here....

I have to admit that towards the end of summer we got a little lazy going to the grocery every week. We took several weekend trips (Vancouver & Olympic National Park) and have been planning lots of nights (like weekly pub trivia) with our friends where we end up eating out. I don't plan too many of my lunches during the day. I usually end up...

As the final hatch chile recipe (until we decide to bust out the frozen ones later on this winter), we made these incredible hatch chile croque monsieurs from Foodie Bride. I really like how this blog did a whole series of recipes using hatch chiles. I also like that this blog is based out of Houston and the fact that they are fellow Texan fans....

As promised, here is the other recipe that used up the rest of the oatmeal stout from those delicious oatmeal stout raisin cookies, and it is a good one. So there is this food blog called The Beeroness that I have recently discovered, and it is absolutely amazing. Everything is made with beer, particularly craft beers, and I seriously want to...

I've been wanting to make homemade pop-tarts for forever and ever. I literally had this recipe opened up in Safari for weeks and weeks. In the end though, I decided to do something a little different when I made my pop-tarts— I used premade pie dough I had leftover from the mini cannoli cups (although I still plan to make those brown sugar...

As promised yesterday, here are my sweet kolaches, filled with blueberry jam, some freshly mashed blueberries, and a few larger berry chunks for good measure, rounded off with a delicious streusel topping. You can use any fruit and fruit preserves of your choice, but this is what I had on hand, so this is what I used. Basically you follow the...

Kolaches were not something that I ate all that often when I was back in Texas, but once you are away from something and can't get it, you suddenly realize just how much you miss (and want to devour) it. For anybody that isn't aware of the beauty of the kolache, they are Czech pastries that are super popular all across Texas' bakeries made from...

Back in June when we visited Chicago, we made the requisite stop at Walker Brothers for an apple pancake— something I'm sure we'll try to recreate albeit probably only mildly successfully. However, we did have success making on of their other popular pancakes, the Dutch Baby, a cross between a souffle and a pancake. Our Dutch Baby didn't look...