A few years ago, we bought Bobby Flay's Burgers, Fries, and Shakes cheaply at a Crate and Barrel outlet store. It's turned out to be a pretty good investment for this burger recipe alone. It's the first one we tried and remains our favorite from the book. We probably enjoy this burger so much because of our love for chimichurri. Chimichurri...

I've been intrigued by Pappardelle's Pasta's Dark Chocolate Linguine ever since we sampled it at our first visit to Pike's Place. It's a simple linguine subtly favored with chocolate. The recipe included in the packaging and most of the recipes I saw online were for dessert pastas, but I really wanted to turn the chocolate linguine into a savory...

I'm not having a good week this week in the kitchen. One day after burning my right middle finger in the oven making Amaretto Apple Fritter Muffins, I managed to burn my left middle finger by bumping it into the hot crockpot while making the chili in this post. To help the situation, my eyes were watering from all of the onion I was chopping and...

While Dustin and I often venture out and experiment with new entrees at restaurants, I feel like when it comes to appetizers, we order the same things over and over again, particularly at Italian restaurants. We always seem to order the caprese or tomato salad, something made with entirely too much mozzarella, or bruschetta. We just really the...

We need a more concise name for this dish. It should flow out of the mouth more easily— as easily as it goes down the hatch. We already had the perfect side dish and a damn good margarita, so now we just needed an idea for our main course. I know Dustin loves green chiles with a passion, and I have been craving them for some time now, but they...

When I saw this recipe on foodgawker from Closet Cooking, I knew this was something I would be making very soon. Not only does it include some of my favorite seasonal ingredients (I used a combination of pumpkin puree blended into the cheese mixture and butternut squash because I couldn't decide which I'd rather include), but it has an amaretti...

The last year has been one of incredible change in our lives. It was almost exactly one year ago that Dustin and I were celebrating Dustin's birthday (a few days late) and contemplating acceptance of his new job out here at Reef. How fitting it was we were eating at seafood restaurant as we were contemplating moving to Seattle, also known as a...

Boccone's in San Antonio was one of the first restaurants Dustin took me to in San Antonio when we started dating. He talked up this pepperoni/sausage pasta drenched in olive oil with tomatoes, garlic, olives, and onion, which we will fondly refer to as "pepperoni pasta" from here on out. Dustin knew I would love this dish, knowing what a...

As with the rest of Seattle, we are pretty much obsessed with Tom Douglas. Dustin proposed to me at Etta's, so that place and their triple coconut cream pie will always have a special place in our heart (I've even bought the cookbook with the recipe so we can try to make it when we don't have access to the real deal). We've tried Lola for...

I think the only way Dustin and I will eat cucumber is when it its made into tzatziki sauce. I've tried cucumber multiple times in other ways, and no matter what, I can't stand it. But when cucumber is mixed into Greek yogurt with some garlic, drenching a gyros sandwich, we love it. Funny how flavors blend, turning something you hate into...