Apparently last Monday was National S'mores Day. It seems there is a national day celebrating each and every kind of food that you can possibly imagine. This post is a bit late for this "holiday," but better late than never, I guess. These mini s'mores pies were a big hit with Dustin after a long day of work and teaching his class, as well as...

There is a Los Angeles chain that we might have mentioned before called Lemonade that serves fresh vegetable-focused dishes, and you guessed it, lemonade. But not just plain lemonades grace the menu. Blood orange, pineapple coriander, and watermelon rosemary are a few of the flavors to be had. Before we moved last year, Lemonade was on my walk...

Instead of a cake this year, I decided to make Dustin a pie for his birthday on Saturday. Sweet apples covered in homemade salted caramel sauce with Alderwood smoked sea salt in a homemade lattice pie crust. It was as delicious as it sounds! The apples stay slightly crisp in the pie, which I really enjoyed. The salted caramel sauce is an amazing...

This chipotle peach pie will shock and awaken your taste buds! I fully expected this pie to be a little bit smoky and hot when I first bit into it, and even I was still surprised. But in a good way− I kept going back for more and more! You'll never go back to boring peach pie again! The smokiness of the chipotle powder pairs well with the...

Making a chocolate pie with a potato chip crust has been on the forefront of my mind for awhile now. I threw around using pretzels instead, or maybe a combo of the two, but straight potato chips seemed more fun in my head. When I told Dustin my idea, he was actually a little weirded out, which I found surprising because he's usually on board for...

I can't decide whether I like this apple pie or the Southern Comfort apple pie from the summer of 2012 better. I guess what is really clear here is that both contained alcohol, and both were outstanding variations of this classic fruit pie. As with the SoCo pie, the liquor cooks off and just leave behind a subtle flavoring that really enaahnces...

These are the last dessert to be produced from my Bellevue kitchen— the place where this blog and my true love of cooking and baking began. I was just starting to bake when we left Houston, but given my free time once we moved, my passion really blossomed. So while I am excited to be living in a new place, I am also feeling nostalgic for...

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...

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...