Still learning about how to prepare our foods, we mistakenly grilled up a piece of flaky, white fish outside on the grill. Oops! Next time we'll stick to salmon and tuna steaks. Despite this sometimes odd texture of the fish, it was still quite tasty, covered in tapenade. The real star of this show however was fresh artichokes with lemon caper...

Lox "made" at home is something Dustin and I probably never in a million years would have imagined we would eat, but in the same vein, we never thought we would make homemade bagels either. Now we must attempt to combine the two, and make fresh cream cheese... We started out with a beautiful filet of fresh Copper River salmon after we stocked...

This isn't much of a recipe, but rather a perfect flavor combination— fresh, lightly seared scallops over brown rice and sweet roasted peppers topped with slightly spicy chorizo— that all explodes in your mouth at once. The cooked chorizo creates a delicious, greasy (in a good way) sauce for the scallops and complements the peppers. Top with...

Originally I envisioned these scallop BLTs as sliders. The scallops are the perfect size to place on a slider bun, but then I decided to make homemade bread. And there is no better way to take a sandwich over the top than to use homemade bread fresh from your very own oven. Also add avocado. We had an extra one leftover, so this scallop BLT...

Bonnie is loving the warmer weather and hanging out on the patio. She's such a cutie and so well behaved! She just jumps in the planter that acts as a border for our patio and hangs out there while we cook and eat. As we sit and eat good home cooked food in the Seattle sun with our little puppy, it's hard to imagine life getting much better....

I cannot wait to make it back to Europe for a visit to Spain to eat some authentic Spanish paella. Until then, Dustin and I had to improvise and make our own, which was very simple to do thanks to this recipe from Epicurious. It was really fast and easy to come together. This version has chorizo and shrimp, but I bet it would taste great with...

The day we arrived in Seattle on our visit last spring, we stopped at an Italian restaurant called Barolo right by our hotel downtown. I had this fabulous creamy pasta with smoked salmon off of a prix fixe lunch promotional menu. It was my first taste of the Northwest, and I still think of this pasta to this day. I wanted to develop a more...

The theme for this meal was fresh and (mostly) local— a beautiful filet of wild Alaskan king salmon (hence the word mostly before local) from Pike's Place market, served alongside a crostini made from a Macrina baguette, local, first of the season asparagus, topped with a fresh, locally sourced poached egg and all covered with yellow sunburst...

Dustin and I thought it would be fun to take ridiculously unhealthy coconut shrimp and make a healthier version of it for a fun, tropical dinner alongside a fresh mango and edamame salad. I decided to go with a recipe from Bobby Deen, son of the queen of butter and fat, Paula Deen, that involved baking the shrimp rather than frying and using a...

It's not like we've been deprived of fancy meals lately, but we still like to make elevated cuisine at home from time to time. I was watching an episode of Kelsey's Essentials on the Cooking Channel all about how to work with chocolate. Kelsey did several cool things, including making chocolate pasta, something we have also done, but I was...