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...

Here's another simple dish-transformed-to-burger recipe. This time around, it's buffalo wings! All you need to do is combine lean ground chicken breast with some garlic powder, salt, pepper, crumbled blue cheese, and a touch of hot sauce. Add an egg to the mixture if it is too dry. Form into patties and grill. Place on a bun and liberally top...

If we decided to open a fancy-ish, non-traditional, Mexican restaurant, these green chile crab cakes with tomatillo salsa and a side of truffled black beans with caramelized onions would definitely be on the menu. This is another savory recipe from the Pastry Queen Cookbook, which I am officially in love with. This is another rather expensive...

I love taking the flavors of one dish— like chicken parmesan— and turning them into a burger. This burger is so simple— take lean ground chicken, add in some spices like oregano, dried basil, garlic with some salt and pepper, some shredded parmesan cheese, olive oil and breadcrumbs (there's no magic ingredient amount— just until everything...

Football season is right around the corner, and we are so excited in this house. We are actually going to be able to watch a few of the Texans games at our house this year (instead of having to go out to a place with NFL Direct Ticket for brunch every Sunday) since they will be featured in some nationally televised games this season (Jets,...

I have been completely smitten with this recipe ever since I first saw it in the Pastry Queen cookbook. Savory cheesecake made with cream cheese and mascarpone, filled with Dungeness crab and shrimp? Sounds exactly like my kind of thing and another great excuse to use my springform pan. The first step is to make a saltine cracker crust by...

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...

Grilled chicken marinated in a blueberry sauce served upon a bed of coconut rice? Sounds a little crazy? But it totally works despite the chicken being a slightly funky-looking color. The recipe comes from How Sweet It Is, and I think represents the first time that Dustin and I haven't screwed up rice. From now on perhaps all of my rice should...

It's no secret how much we love pesto in this household, so when I saw a recipe for arugula pesto from Baked Bree, I was pretty excited to try a new variation with arugula and walnuts as the pesto base. I used the recipe I found as a guideline because I much prefer to just dump ingredients into the food processor and taste until my concoction...

I have been obsessed with the idea of this macaroni and cheese since the moment I saw it on Two Peas and Their Pod. First it incorporates avocado into the cheese sauce. Avocado + Cheese = Amazing! Second, it takes comfort food like mac 'n' cheese and makes it a little healthier, courtesy of the nutrition of the avocado and the fact that you are...