A couple of weekends ago, we hosted a gnocchi party with our Rice friends. A failed attempt at making smoothly textured gnocchi at a previous Italian-themed dinner party necessitated a redo. We now own a ricer, which makes the process of smashing the potatoes much easier and makes the final product more uniform. We wanted a simple sauce, so...

Apparently, April is National Grilled Cheese Month. I randomly heard (or probably read) that somewhere the other day. I think it's kind of silly how practically every food has it's own month or day, and we mostly definitely didn't plan these sandwiches because of National Grilled Cheese Month. It was just a happy coincidence. We like to...

We invited Greg over for dinner, and he's sort of become used to us making pretty awesome dinners (and desserts). It was late in the afternoon, we hadn't gone grocery shopping, and I started to worry what we could cook up to impress. I flipped through our OneNote with all our "meals to make" but nothing was finding my fancy or met the time...

I've got a serious mushroom problem. See, the wife is obsessed with them. And me, I'm kind of off and on with mushrooms. I like my chanterelles and prosciutto on pizza, but I detest those typical raw mushrooms in salads. I'm starting to think that it's not that I dislike mushrooms, but that I dislike cheap and crappy mushrooms. Regardless of my...

We have absolutely fallen in love with Indian food after living in Seattle. Dustin even took me to an Indian cooking class for a birthday present in December. Now we've decided to experiment with Indian cooking at home. We stocked up on all of the spices, and boy, do they make the apartment smell wonderful. I think I could sprinkle garam masala...

One of my favorite foods when I was young was cheesy broccoli and rice casserole. For some reason when I got a little older, I decided I didn't like it. Maybe because the word broccoli was included. But when I gave it a try again after dropping my picky eating habits, it quickly became one of my go-to comfort foods when I'd see it at a...

Hazelnuts make me think of winter, so when we were making homemade pasta during the winer months, I think this goat cheese and hazelnut pesto pasta is the perfect sauce/topping for a cold night. To give the dish some spice, we made our own chili-infused olive oil to add to the top by cooking a few sliced serrano peppers and sliced jalapeños in...

On way we are keeping our New Year's resolution to eat healthier is to eat more vegetarian dinners. One of our favorite ways to eat vegetarian is through interesting pizza toppings. Black beans and sweet potatoes are hearty and delicious flavor combination that work on a variety of dishes from chili to enchiladas and even to this pizza inspired...

While sadly, we have not found any Tex-Mex out here worth our time or the calories, we have stumbled across a few "Southwestern" style restaurants in the area. The salsas are different and so is the cheese, and really just about everything else, but words like enchilada and taco are familiar, so we can appreciate the cuisine. One of the local...

I absolutely promise this is my last foray into pumpkin recipes. Until next fall, that is. Dustin says I'm obsessed, but I think I may have gotten him on the bandwagon after this macaroni and cheese. I have made numerous macaroni and cheeses since starting a record of my cooking on wafoodie; however, I think this one might be my absolute...