Without as much time to cook in the evenings, I've been trying to think up shortcut meals that don't involve a lot of work, but are still tasty and creative. Trader Joe's has become our best friend in doing so with all of their precooked meats and even their higher quality frozen products. I'm not sure where the idea for these enchiladas came...

At a food truck back in Seattle, we ordered the most amazing grilled cheese sandwich called the Purple Haze. It is this amazing combination of blackened hangar steak with triple cream borgonzola (it has the veins of blue cheese like gorgonzola, but is soft and spreadable like a brie) on parmesan crusted sourdough bread with potato chips on the...

Buffalo wings are the ultimate football food, and lucky for us they are actually super easy to make! Tasty buffalo wings don't need to be fried. Honestly, we think frying might take something away from them because where it's at is the buttery hot sauce and blue cheese dip. Waaaay better than the wings from that a well known joint with the half...

In edition number two of "fancy dinner and wine from our trip night," we made peppercorn crusted filets with the most amazing smashed potatoes with just a hint of rosemary. Dustin claims he divided the potatoes equally between us (I claim he gave himself slightly more, which is justified considering how much I normally eat) with the expectation...

Dustin has previously shown you what he eats as a bachelor when I'm out of town. I figured it was my turn to show you what I've been eating while he was out of town (which will be happening significantly more with his new job). Contrary to what it might seem on here, I do actually eat real meals when he is gone (even if what I really want to eat...

This is the fabulous dinner we had that I mentioned in yesterday's post. With fondue in the title, I'm guessing you can imagine why we wanted to eat a healthy, non-cheese filled lunch. When we drove down from Seattle to Los Angeles, we stopped for a day of wine tasting in northern California and picked up several bottles of wine to bring home...

We needed a simple and healthy lunch one Saturday afternoon to balance out the epic dinner we were planning for that evening (to be posted soon...you'll know it when you see it). I didn't want to do any cooking, but at the same time, I didn't want to do our normal quickie lunch of bread, cheese, and hummus, or chicken salad and crackers. I...

What I learned living as a bachelorette for 10 days. (1) The house stays a lot cleaner when only one person is living in it, and the trash and dishes are much more manageable. Surprise, surprise. (2) More importantly, if left to my own devices, I would probably live solely off desserts and breakfast food. I ate way too much ice cream, granola...

I had a picture in my head of what this dinner would look like— cute little lasagna pinwheels covered in marinara and cheese. Well the strips of lasagna were not large enough that I could stack them like I wanted without them falling apart. My cute roll ups ended up more like enchiladas, but whatever. They were tasty, and I've learned some...

I originally thought about making roasted corn with smoked paprika as a side dish for another meal, but decided I was so excited about the flavor combination that it should be the highlight of the meal. A cheesy risotto seemed like the perfect base to which to add the corn and paprika. Since Dustin considers himself the risotto master of the...