Last spring when we went on our visit to wine country in Eastern Washington, we came back with a nice bottle of sherry. We finally decided to crack it open for cooking and for sipping after dinner. We wanted a good recipe to showcase the sherry, and since these chanterelle mushrooms we picked up at the farmer's market are supposed to soak up the...

We bought this ridiculously awesome and ridiculously expensive pasta impulsively at Monsieur Marcel (just about the easiest grocery store I can think of to go broke at) just because it made us smile. Between the sombrero shape and the colored stripes, these guys just looked like a fun, party of a meal. Initially we didn't even realize you were...

Sometimes the classics are the best. Despite our desire to be super creative in the kitchen, sometimes you just want a simple, juicy cheeseburger. We want to make an elevated cheeseburger with high quality ingredients but nothing too wacky. We went with a basic beef patty, cheddar, onions, and tomato on a poppy seed bun. Nothing more, nothing...

There was an awesome seafood festival in the Ballard neighborhood we went to the last few summers. One of the dishes we immensely enjoyed were the Scalloritos from Alaska Weathervane Seafood— grilled bacon-wrapped scallops in warm tortillas with lots of extra goodies. We were trying to come up with some new dinner ideas, had some leftover...

Yesterday was quite the crazy day. In addition to it being St. Patty's Day, we awoke at 6:25 to our first earthquake in LA— the Shamrock Shake. It was a 4.4 on the Richter scale, so strong enough to be significantly felt (the girls were pretty freaked, Bella especially, and we could hear everything rattling around on our bookshelves), but not...

The Philly Cheesesteak Sloppy Joes of a few weeks ago were a resounding success, so if your brain works the way that ours do, the next natural step is to take another of our favorite flavor combinations and transition it into a sloppy joe. What do you think about the flavors of buffalo chicken? We think Frank's and blue cheese make just about...

As good as the Animal Style Cheeseburger Pizza was, it was not, however, our special Valentine's pizza. For that evening, we went with something a little fancier feeling and more sophisticated in flavor (we did make double the amount of pizza dough when we made the cheeseburger pizza to cut down on our Valentine's evening work). Dustin made a...

Dustin thinks we should take this idea to In-N-Out and try to sell it to them. I have to admit that after eating it, my ever-present craving for an In-N-Out Burger, Animal Style was completely gone because honestly, this was so much better. This pizza far exceeded my expectations, and this pizza was my idea. Basically this pizza is all of the...

Scallops are by far one of our favorite proteins. If you're talking raw food, I think it tops Erin's list. We'd wanted to make a nice pasta dish with scallops, and Erin found this adventurous recipe. You know she had me convinced with this recipe when she said it had bourbon in it. Jalapeños and cream sure didn't hurt. We both agreed that the...

It seems many of our favorite restaurants in SoCal (that we've found so far) are located in Venice. One such restaurant is Wurstkuche, a German beer and sausage joint with a fun, Seattle-esque vibe.  They've got amazing classic brats and all sorts of exotic sausages (like rabbit and rattlesnake) as well as addictive fries. It's one of the few...