Lately macaroni and cheese fusion meals have been on mind (the buffalo chicken mac 'n'cheese being the most recent). Today's version of this classic American comfort dish takes on the flavors of barbecue sauce and sharp, smoky cheese. The sweet, spicy, and smoky all blend together for the perfect meal after a long day at work or a stressful...

A few weeks back the Texans were the Sunday evening game (I don't want to to even talk about what a disaster this season has been because I'm totally in denial), and I wanted to do a dinner version of chicken and waffles with a twist (though I still would like to do a traditional brunch version). Instead of buttermilk waffles, we made potato...

This recipe is a testament to frugality with all of the ingredients because it comes from things we typically have in the pantry or what we had lingering around, leftover from other dishes. Gorgonzola from the buffalo chicken macaroni and cheese and an open half-used can of pumpkin in the fridge from the biscotti (although I pretty much have a...

We had an amazing kale salad at The Hart and the Hunter, and when cooked properly, I firmly believe there is no better base to a salad than kale (plus cheesy kale chips are delicious). If not cooked properly kale can be a nasty wet mess, but tossed with olive oil and baked until crispy, kale doesn't nearly resemble the vegetable you might...

In keeping with our recent obsession of buffalo wings and blue cheese, here is a fun variation that incorporates those delicious flavors into a macaroni and cheese. As you might expect from anything titled macaroni and cheese, it was delicious— perfect for an evening of watching Monday Night Football after a long day of school. We poached and...

Before Dustin left for one of his trips back to San Antonio, he specifically told me not to eat all of his Frank's. He literally eats Frank's hot sauce all of the time now. Last week at the grocery store, he bought tortilla chips with no salsa, but instead said he would eat them with Frank's. Now I enjoy the flavors of hot wings (as evidenced...

Not to be confused with spaghetti squash, this is legit homemade spaghetti with a thick and creamy butternut squash sauce coating each strand. We were browsing a specialty food mart when I saw a butternut squash pasta sauce sitting on the shelf. I was tempted to buy it, but why buy something like that (at a ridiculously high premium, I might...

For another installment of easy dinners on days you want to put zero effort into making food, may I present to you orange chicken tacos! I feel like all of my food inspiration these days either involves pumpkin or combining two different cuisines like Asian and Mexican in this case. Trader Joe's makes some great frozen orange chicken that I...

We were literally talking the other night about cooking and about the fact that we have been really successful in the kitchen. We were trying to think of an instance where we made something that really just didn't work, and we couldn't recall anything. I would say less than a week later, this dish came along. The flavors of the dish definitely...

Last time Dustin was away, I made mint pea pesto with gnocchi. I thought it was absolutely delicious, but let me tell you, it pales in comparison to the pumpkin seed pesto with sweet potato gnocchi this time around. I based the pesto off of this recipe from Whole Foods, but definitely made some changes. What's a pesto without some parmesan in...