As I mentioned a few days ago, we were brimming with Mexican food the week before Cinco de Mayo. I fully intended to write out all of the posts for the delicious food we made, but then real life happened. This past weekend was my first experience as a graduate student where I understood how being a graduate student completely overwhelms and...

For the past couple of weeks, we've been buying our meats at a local butcher shop. It isn't cheap, but the quality and selection of meats is way better than that of our local Whole Foods, which ultimately we haven't been very impressed with compared to our former Bellevue one. We purchased an awesome grass-fed 35-day dry aged ribeye that easily...

It's that time again. It's time to Cook the Ducks! Our LA Kings are facing our local rival, the Anaheim Ducks in the NHL playoffs. To rally with Jonathan Quick and Co., we feasted on duck. It's hard to tell who got destroyed worse— our duck tacos to the Ducks in the game one Saturday night. It was actually quite the nail-biter— Kings tied the...

We are celebrating the week leading up to Cinco de Mayo with a whole slew of Mexican recipes I've been brainstorming and saving up for the past few months (and margaritas), beginning with these chicken tamale burrito bowls. These bowls have everything I love topped on my Chipotle burrito bowl from the store, but made at home and with polenta...

Seriously, at this point what flavors haven't I incorporated into macaroni and cheese? Well, the answer would be pizza. We took all of our favorite pizza flavors, eliminated the crust in favor of whole wheat pasta shells ands this pepperoni pizza mac 'n' cheese was born. We actually didn't use pepperoni, but salami instead, so please forgive me...

When I talked about our Easter brunch a few days ago, I mentioned our monte cristo sandwiches. It's not something we'd ever tried until Cafe Orleans during my birthday celebration at Disneyland last December. After that, we were pretty hooked. Neither of us are huge ham people, but since ham is an Eastery thing, we thought fried sandwiches would...

Despite the fact that these pizzas are definitely not kosher thanks to the pepperoni, this was our way of celebrating the start of Passover...using a matzo as the crust for a pizza. We actually saw that one of the local pizza joints was serving matzo pizza, and even considered ordering it from there, but then decided to make a homemade version...

This was really the simplest of meals inspired by a basic California sushi roll. We made sure we used real crab, not imitation crab, because we aren't really fans of the super cheap California rolls. Basically you make a crab salad, but amp up the Asian flavor with a little bit of soy sauce and liberally add avocado to the top. Instead of rice,...

Caprese quesadillas are seriously one of the most simple dishes you can make for dinner. Even on one of those nights you really don't feel like cooking, these aren't really any more difficult to make than whatever else you make have been considering. You heat a griddle, assemble some quesadillas, and grill. It's as easy as that. Dustin was...

It has been a long time since we've done anything with the Mediterranean flavors we love so much— Kalamata olives, feta, tzatziki and the like. Dustin whipped up a quick tzatziki sauce with greek yogurt, cucumber, and lemon juice early in the day to let the flavors meld (definitely some of the best tzatziki we've had outside of a restaurant),...