When my dad and my brother were visiting I decided to try my hand at breading chicken. I’ve never been very good at getting breading to stick to items, but I figured chicken is an easy entree that everyone would …

A frequent quick dinner in our house is homemade pizza. Sometimes with homemade dough, sometimes with TJs dough, we make two pies (his and hers) and then have leftovers for a few days of lunches (or dinners!) Jeff prefers cheese …

A favorite dinner of mine is crepes, and when I received a crepe maker a few years back for my birthday, I was also given a crepe cookbook that Jeff and I have been using ever since. The Chicken Broccoli …

Sometimes on a week night, you just want to make a recipe that you know is delicious, quick, and will produce some leftovers. Am I right? For me, that recipe was Barefoot Contessa’s Lemon Fuisilli with Arugula. The recipe on …

Spring has finally decided to show its face in Chicago, chickadees. And for that, we are grateful. In celebration of a season in which the sun shines warmer and the Farmer’s Market is finally open, Ky and I decided to …

A few weeks ago, Jeff saw this on the Internet and wanted to try it. Inside-out grilled cheeses ended up being super easy to make, fun to eat, and fast to clean up! Get ready for your mind to be …

Do you ever make the intention to bring a salad for lunch, then realize that actually you think salad is boring, overrated, and that you’ll be hungry in twenty minutes? Well, luckily for you, I have some salad tricks up …

I’ll start with a disclaimer…this recipe needs improvement. I edited it from a recipe from Smitten Kitchen that was for slow-cooked black bean soup. And although I have a slow cooker, I didn’t have the time, so I used canned …

In college, I worked in a french bistro that served cassoulet, and I remember our clientele were always impressed at our traditional presentation of the dish. Out of this experience, I formed the opinion that true cassoulet includes duck legs, …

Or so says my father, which is a separate issue for another time. He didn’t eat the Brussels sprouts, but he was seriously missing out. Recently, my father and brother came out to LA for a visit and stayed with …