These are easily one of the most decadent things to come out of our kitchen recently. And you know we've been making a lot of desserts... Soft pretzels serve as the base for a rich bread pudding with a combination of semi-sweet and white chocolate in every bite, plus white chocolate ice cream and fudge sauce on top. Make sure you serve these...

We've shared our fondness for brownie sundaes before, as they bring a sense of nostalgia to us from our early days dating back at Rice. Back then we stuck with super simple brownies, vanilla or chocolate ice cream, with a few sprinkles, a cherry, and maybe a little basic hot fudge. I'll always have a special place in my heart for those basic...

One of the things I really wanted to do while I had the free time was to buy a book on jarring and canning, so I could learn to make my own jams, jellies, and other preserves, especially while we lived in such an area with great summer produce. Well, that time has come and passed as we are crazy with the move, and I will be starting graduate...

These chocolate covered espresso beans are proof that the simplest things can be elevated using high quality ingredients. When Dustin's parents visited us over July 4th, we hit up Espresso Vivace in the Capital Hill area. We've gotten great coffee the last two years, but Vivace has by far been our favorite. It's such a shame we discovered it so...

We got so busy posting other recipes that we haven't yet shared what we did with the leftover pie scraps from the 4th. When I made the lattice top peach pie, I had quite a bit of extra dough with which I thought I would make this super easy dessert. I stored them in the fridge shaped exactly as they were, then I baked them up with a generous...

A few weeks ago we hiked up to Poo Poo Point in Issaquah and had a great time. Little did Dustin know that just a short time later his team at work would be back there hiking for a morale event. I wanted to be nice and send a special treat with the boy for himself and his co-workers to enjoy once they reached the top of the point. Granola bars...

We've been on dessert overload lately, but when I saw a recipe for sangria cobbler I was dying to make it. The 4th of July dessert were already planned, so I made these into individual desserts baked in ramekins for just the two of us and froze the rest of them. Whenever I eat cobbler at places, I'm usually disappointed since they rarely are...

I just realized that in a way this dessert is very similar to the banana cream pie that I made for the first episode of True Blood this season (these pies were consumed during the second episode). Chocolate and bananas are the star of the show in both desserts. But in a way, these desserts also feel very different. The banana cream pie had a...

Last weekend was a busy one for us. Saturday morning we got up early, packed up the puppy and went on an 8.5 mile hike up to Poo Poo Point in Issaquah. We've been saying we wanted to go hiking before we leave Washington, so we finally got off of our butts and went out. We had great views of Lake Sammamish, and if we had been later in the day...

When Dustin cooked up those Thai peanut butter burgers with grilled pineapple rings, we didn't simply purchase pineapple rings from the grocery store. We actually bought a whole pineapple, as intimidating as it looks, and chopped it up ourselves. For some reason my mind just screamed pineapple curd. So that's exactly what I made with the...