Erin's been cooking a lot. A lot! But this meal of all the meals probably shows just how good she's gotten. An important step in improving your skills as a chef is try your own thing. Lots of times, you should follow the recipe and learn, but sometimes you just need to wing it and go on a hunch. Erin went on a hunch, and the meal came together...

This meal, inspired by this recipe from Prevention magazine, is incredibly light and fresh. There are a lot of flavors, but they are simple and all go so well together. It's all about the ingredients and how they work off of each other. First, bring a pot of water to boil and cook approximately six ounces of pasta (serves two) until al dente....

Dustin and I've been talking about making a trip to San Francisco together for as long as I can remember. I've never been, but always wanted to go, and Dustin has been a number of times and has told me about all of the fabulous things to do and places to eat. We already have an itinerary planned out for a nonexistent trip. One of our plans is to...

Dustin and I love making unique pizzas and we love bagels and smoked salmon for breakfast, so when I stumbled across this recipe for Smoked Salmon pizza while searching for healthy fish recipes, I was hooked on the combination. We made our homemade pizza dough and added some chopped red onion before we placed the dough in the oven. The other...

Even though winter is the best time for citrus fruit, citrus fruits are just so refreshing that they make me think of summer and sitting on a beach someplace tropical. I guess citrus fruits this time of year allow me to sit holed up in my warm apartment pretending I'm someplace warm. Right now I think I'll picture myself in the crystal clear...

I'm sitting here sipping my Maker's Mark bourbon reminiscing about our Bourbon Glazed Salmon from last night. Any good fish dish is always going to depend on the quality of the filet. And living up here in the Pacific Northwest, we're blessed with kickass seafood. Erin and I don't typically marinate our meats. The reason? It honestly comes down...

This lasagna recipe has sounded amazing to me for quite awhile now, but I could never bring myself to make it because it's drenched in Alfredo sauce— delicious but ridiculously unhealthy. Finally I took the time to search out a "healthy" Alfredo-like sauce recipe, which Dustin declared would be a disaster. But once again he had to trust me...

I don't know how many times I will have to eat this dish before I become sick of it, but truth be told I'm not so sure that will ever happen. This pasta, or a variation of it, has constantly been on our menu for the last several years, and we still devour it every single time. This love affair started one day when we decided to use homemade...

I know grits are a staple of the Southern diet, but I'm not so sure being from Houston qualifies me for being a Southerner. I'd never had grits until about a year ago when we ate at Burning Pear where I had delicious smoked pork chop with a side of poblano cheese grits. They were so good. I loved the velvety, creamy, cheesy texture. They were...

I think the best part of all of the experimenting we are doing in the kitchen is that we are learning so much about what works and what doesn't. This meal was a good example. We tried caramelizing these amazing fresh jumbo scallops to look like the scrumptious looking scallops in the pictures on Annie's Eats website where I found the recipe...