Boy was this a delicious meal. We stopped by our local cheese shop, and on a whim bought some fresh burrata. When we tried to decide what we would actually eat the burrata with, all we could settle on was some kind of awesome pasta. I set my sights on making a damn good tomato sauce and great homemade linguine. It came out great! The pasta...

This post should really be called PATJs, which is short for Pancetta, Argulua, and Tomato Jam sandwiches, but I don't think you'd be able to understand what I was talking about if that was the title. But all of the ingredients in this sandwich are fancied up version of the classic BLT sandwich served on delicious seeded bread. The tomato jam...

We recently went to a cuban restaurant and dined on a delicious Cuban sandwich. When I think Cuban sandwich, I want to sign up and dig in fast. While perusing a newly purchased cookbook, I couldn't not volunteer to cook Cubano Pork Tenderloin when we came upon it. Even though this might seem or look complex, it's actually a very fast and...

This deceptively simple title belies the amazing combination of flavors that live in this dish. We took Dustin's great appetizer from awhile back and turned it into possibly our favorite dinner from Hatch chile week(s)— Hatch Chile Goat Cheese Cakes with Caramelized Bacon and Spinach Salad. To make the delicious goat cheese cakes, I blended...

I know the final product was not what Dustin was expecting when I told him I was making him BLTA pasta, but in the end I think he was pleasantly surprised with how nice and gourmet-feeling this dish came out. Typically a BLT is not what you'd consider fancy, but take all of its standard ingredients and turn them into an inspired pasta dish, and...

Pork belly is a fun challenge. Since its so fatty you don't want to feel like you're biting into pure fat (even though you pretty much are). You want tender meat, soft and moist from the fat with perfectly crisp exteriors to compliment with a crunch. We served our asian style pork belly over a bed of basmati rice and stir fried snap peas. Add...

I've never really gotten behind Hawaiian pizza. That much pineapple on a pizza just seems like it would be too sweet, even for someone like me. But the idea of marinating pork in pineapple is something I was totally on board with. This grilled pork tenderloin came out better than we expected. This meal (along with some Copper River salmon) was a...

I first had red beans and rice at a party back in Seattle. Immediately afterwards, I begged Erin to make red beans and rice for me. Years later, I had to finally give in and make it myself :) This creole dish is so tasty and flavorful, you can't help but have multiple bowls. We followed a recipe from the kitchn. It made me feel legitimate by...

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...

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...