After busting out the Arborio rice to make dulce de leche rice pudding a few days ago, we decided to put the rest to savory use. We decided to use a basic risotto recipe as a base like Dustin used in his cook-off and then added some flavors we thought would go nicely together. We decided on asparagus, artichoke hearts, and pancetta topped with...

Passing by Uli's Famous Sausage in Pike's Place, I noticed some English Bangers, which sounded like a delicious and easy weeknight meal to me. But instead of plain mashed potatoes, I decided to fancy them up by roasting a head of garlic in the oven and browning some butter on the stove to toss into the potatoes. We also used half and half...

This dish was supposed to be over a bed of wild rice, but I got so focused on making the chutney and Dustin was so focused on the fish that we both totally forgot to get the rice on the stove at an appropriate time. By the time we did remember, it would have completely thrown our timing for the rest of the dinner off, so we had a simple meal of...

Halibut dinner number two was another delicious one. I think halibut goes well with just about everything, including a delicious corn and black bean salsa that we put on top. To make the salsa, combine 1/2 of a large, diced red onion, with 1 fresh tomato, 1 can of diced tomatoes with jalapeño and cilantro, 1/2 can of drained black beans, a...

Fresh, first-of-the-season halibut has been hitting Seattle. Last weekend, our Whole Foods had a generous one day sale on halibut, so we bought several meals worth of fish and plan on making it a halibut week in this house and cook it several different ways. Might as well eat as much fresh fish as we can while we live here, right? It had also...

Apparently, April is National Grilled Cheese Month. I randomly heard (or probably read) that somewhere the other day. I think it's kind of silly how practically every food has it's own month or day, and we mostly definitely didn't plan these sandwiches because of National Grilled Cheese Month. It was just a happy coincidence. We like to...

I made Dustin a believer in strawberry citrus salsas. We wanted a healthy, colorful dinner, and this dish really fit the bill. The salsa we created was a mixture of a handful of chopped strawberries, two small mango oranges, half an avocado, 1/4 of a large red onion, 1/2 of a seeded jalapeño, the juice of half a lime, plus liberal salt....

Our steamed bacon bun dinner the other night was definitely not kosher for Passover, but we made up for it with homemade matzo ball soup. Apparently the secret to light and fluffy matzo balls is to use club soda or sparkling water, so we used that little trick. We also used homemade matzo meal instead of buying it— just 5 pieces of matzo ground...

Back when we had our sushi night, we went shopping at the large Asian grocery store where I made an impulse purchase— prepackaged mix to make steamed BBQ pork buns like you get at your favorite dim sum restaurant. The little bag of flour and yeast had been sitting in the cabinet for awhile, but I just couldn't get too excited about making the...

We invited Greg over for dinner, and he's sort of become used to us making pretty awesome dinners (and desserts). It was late in the afternoon, we hadn't gone grocery shopping, and I started to worry what we could cook up to impress. I flipped through our OneNote with all our "meals to make" but nothing was finding my fancy or met the time...