Although I was a little apprehensive about making a peanut butter sauce for noodles, I couldn't be more pleased with how this dish turned out in the end. Peanut butter is something I'd usually pair with chocolate, so eating it with soy sauce, took a little bit of time to wrap my head around. The gamble paid off. We added to the dish with some...

I've really wanted to try my hand at pad thai for awhile now, but I decided to put my own twist on the dish inspired by spaghetti and meatballs. For a basic pad thai that's easy and doesn't require fish sauce (which we couldn't find), just leave off the meatballs. Or just serve the meatballs on toothpicks as an appetizer for a football party....

Dustin made a delicious Greek orzo dish with cherry tomatoes, feta, Kalamata olives, and a drizzle of olive oil. Unfortunately, he forgot to photograph it until he was already done eating and I was about 50% done. It's ok though because it really wasn't much of a recipe beyond what is previously described. However that meal was very...

The idea of an Indian lasagna jumped into my head, so I googled butter chicken lasagna and stumbled across this recipe from the Canadian Food Network. In the end it took me a lot longer to make than I originally anticipated, but it was a labor of love to create a more elaborate meal for Dustin when he arrived than I've been doing as of late....

I think this might be the first time we've ever made pasta without having cheese accompany it. After I mentioned this tidbit to Dustin, he said we should have added some parmesan to the top. But I think we'll leave well enough alone. There was plenty of bacon flavor (the only really unhealthy part of this dish) in this pasta dish to make up for...

This deceptively simple title belies the amazing combination of flavors that live in this dish. We took Dustin's great appetizer from awhile back and turned it into possibly our favorite dinner from Hatch chile week(s)— Hatch Chile Goat Cheese Cakes with Caramelized Bacon and Spinach Salad. To make the delicious goat cheese cakes, I blended...

Replace your standard tomato sauce with pureed roasted Hatch chiles, and you get a slightly spicy and unique base for a pizza. We topped our pizza with pepper Jack cheese to give it a little extra kick, lots of fresh mozzarella (because fresh mozzarella makes all pizzas taste better), caramelized onions to add a hint of sweet to cut the spice,...

My coworkers and I went out for lunch at a random restaurant we stumbled upon in downtown El Segundo. Second City Bistro offered a grilled cheese and tomato soup lunch special that I ordered. But they had a wonderful twist on their tomato soup— gorgonzola. We recreated the grilled cheese and gorgonzola tomato soup for dinner one night. I made an...

We had some of the best fried chicken—truffle honey laced fried chicken with a most delicious slaw—  I've ever tasted at Manhattan Beach Post for brunch a few weeks ago. I really wanted to try to recreate it– I think it would be the perfect fried chicken for chicken and waffles since it has a hint of sweet to it from the honey or it would taste...

There are a lot of B's in that title, but everything is so important to the flavors of the dish that I just couldn't bear to leave one out! I've seriously been in a creative run lately when it comes to new dinner idea. Browsing foodgawker, I stumbled upon an impressive looking chicken burger that I instantly wanted to make. I was a little...