Oh Lupe Tortilla, how we miss you. After my trip to back to Houston, it finally hit me that with my parents moving, I won't be visiting Texas as often, which can only mean one thing. Good-bye frequent Tex Mex (and when I'm back in April, I'm eating Lupe at least twice). Since we've moved up here, I've made it back to my home state every couple...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! If Guinness in your dessert isn't enough for you to celebrate everyone's favorite Irish holiday, add it to your dinner, too! We are actually in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada (coming back before things get too crazy on the strip tonight) for St. Patrick's Day, but we celebrated a few days early with a mini pot roast cooked...

Made right in the crockpot, all you have to do for barbecue beer chicken is take a large, boneless, skinless chicken breast (about 1 pound), cover it in a thin layer of Worcestershire sauce and a bottle of your favorite beer, dump in your favorite spices, and wait while the crockpot does it's magic. We used garlic powder, onion powder, smoked...

Whenever I'd visit my dad's family when I was kid, German sweet rice was always served. It's really just a rice pudding, like every culture seems to have, but for me it will always be German. I hadn't had it in forever until a few months ago when my mom went online and looked for a recipe and made it for us. Now I'm sure it is becoming a staple...

When Erin got back from her trip to Texas, I wanted to cook her up a great special meal just like I did last time. It'd been awhile since we'd had any yummy creamy pasta sauce, so I decided to try something that sounds delectable, vodka sauce. The first step in making vodka sauce is to make a marinara sauce. Begin by getting 1 large can of whole...

I would venture to say this spinach lasagna rivals any meat lasagna in terms of pure tastiness. It reminds me of spinach dip in lasagna form with a lovely creamy texture. I truly think the secret to awesome lasagna is no boil lasagna noodles. If you can find them at the grocery store (which you can't always), why wouldn't you use them? They...

After the success of our Mozzarella Stuffed Meatball Sliders, we wanted to stuff more cheese into meatballs. We decided feta in lamb meatballs was the perfect combination. We used the same basic recipe used for the meatballs in the sliders, just switching feta for mozzarella and ground lamb for beef. These meatballs weren't quite as exciting...

One of the best restaurants on the Microsoft campus is an Italian sandwich place that cooks your sandwich in a wood-fired oven. Now since our apartment complex didn't have a model that came built in with a wood-fired oven, I decided to cook up my italian sandwich in a traditional oven. Once we're billionaires, we'll have a wood-fired oven in our...

We love watching Big Bang Theory together, and we love the idea of getting takeout Chinese food and having a fun night in as they so often do on the show. Unfortunately getting takeout Chinese is not particularly healthy, especially my favorite dish— sweet and sour chicken. I just love that sauce. I could dip anything in that. And unfortunately...

Lunchbox Laboratory, Seattle's gourmet hamburger joint recently opened in Bellevue (I'm sure we'll share more of the delicious details later), and we are pretty stoked. At our first visit to this hamburger joint, I had the Burger of the Gods, covered with blue cheese, a great cheese to take a boring hamburger to fabulous cheeseburger. Next time...