Today I am heading to Texas! I am really excited for this trip. The last time I was in Texas I got married, so of course, that trip was awesome, but things were a little crazy. This time around, I get to see my extended family, old friends from high school, and I get to see college friends as well celebrate Rice's Centennial. I also get to...

I have to admit that towards the end of summer we got a little lazy going to the grocery every week. We took several weekend trips (Vancouver & Olympic National Park) and have been planning lots of nights (like weekly pub trivia) with our friends where we end up eating out. I don't plan too many of my lunches during the day. I usually end up...

As promised, here is the other recipe that used up the rest of the oatmeal stout from those delicious oatmeal stout raisin cookies, and it is a good one. So there is this food blog called The Beeroness that I have recently discovered, and it is absolutely amazing. Everything is made with beer, particularly craft beers, and I seriously want to...

I've been wanting to make homemade pop-tarts for forever and ever. I literally had this recipe opened up in Safari for weeks and weeks. In the end though, I decided to do something a little different when I made my pop-tarts— I used premade pie dough I had leftover from the mini cannoli cups (although I still plan to make those brown sugar...

As promised yesterday, here are my sweet kolaches, filled with blueberry jam, some freshly mashed blueberries, and a few larger berry chunks for good measure, rounded off with a delicious streusel topping. You can use any fruit and fruit preserves of your choice, but this is what I had on hand, so this is what I used. Basically you follow the...

Back in June when we visited Chicago, we made the requisite stop at Walker Brothers for an apple pancake— something I'm sure we'll try to recreate albeit probably only mildly successfully. However, we did have success making on of their other popular pancakes, the Dutch Baby, a cross between a souffle and a pancake. Our Dutch Baby didn't look...

I love cinnamon rolls like no other, but sometime on a summer morning, rich cream cheese icing and warm cinnamon don't hit the spot. Traditional cinnamon rolls are more suited for a crisp fall morning; however pina colada rolls are the perfect summertime equivalent! We used the same dough as the no-yeast cinnamon rolls because, hey, who wants...

I've made yeasted cinnamon rolls once before (the famous Pioneer Woman's version), long before we started recording our food adventures on the web. I definitely plan to make them again because they were so darn tasty, reminiscent of Cinnabon but covered in a maple glaze. But sometimes what I really want is cinnamon rolls made fresh in the...

Baklava is the perfect ending to a Greek dinner, and it's one of those things that I think I might leave to expert Greek pastry chefs. But putting those flavors into a breakfast dish is something I'd be more than willing to try. Once I saw this recipe for Baklava French Toast, I could not get this recipe out of my head. I absolutely had to...

Passover is long gone, but we still had matzo (matzah?) leftover, which I know for Dustin means just one thing— fried matzo or matzo brei as I've been seeing it called on the Internet. Matzo soaked in water or milk, then cooked in the frying pan with eggs is a great base for some delicious breakfasts— both sweet and savory. We made both kinds—...