When my sister came over for pizza the other night I also attempted to make some fried mozzarella. I say attempted because the first go around pretty much failed. Not one to give up on the quest to find the perfect fried cheese, I decided to give these little devils a shot again last night [...]

For those of you that are shying away from this recipe because of the words, “goat cheese”, you are not alone. I know many people who cringe at the words and refuse to eat anything with goat cheese listed as an ingredient. I don’t know if its because they tried it and didn’t like it [...]

When I moved to Seattle a few years ago, I left my family behind in the Portland area. For those of you that don’t know, the Portland to Seattle drive is not that long, about 3 hours.  I should know, after all Ryan and I have made that drive countless times to visit our family [...]

Believe it or not it has actually been quite nice here in Seattle for the last few days. The sun has been shining, the sky blue and the temperatures have been in the low 70s, darn near perfect in my opinion. When the weather gets like this I remember that summer is upon us and [...]

The closer that we get to summer and hopefully warmer weather, the more I begin to crave dishes that have fresh, bright flavors. I was inspired to create this dish while watching an episode of Ask Aida last week during which she made chicken with lemon and artichokes. Using that as a jumping off point, [...]

On a previous post I mentioned that a baked mozzarella dish I was served in Florence sparked my mozzarella obsession. While that is true, that wasn’t the only mozzarella dish that made my heart melt during our two week long trip. While all of the food in Italy was good, to this day one of [...]

Garlic is a wonderful thing. Not only does it taste good, but it is also a natural antibiotic.  Throughout my childhood whenever I would feel like I was getting sick my mom would always make me eat tons of garlic. Some people may be skeptical, but I have to admit,  I spent very little time [...]

The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny Bakes. She has chosen Abbey’s Infamous Cheesecake as the challenge.
This being my first time participating in the Daring Bakers, I was very excited to see that the challenge for the month was cheesecake.  We were given a lot of freedom to do what we wanted [...]

I happened to catch an episode of Everyday Italian the other day and Giada was making a traditional Roman dish called Pasta All’Amatriciana and you know me, I am ALL about the pasta which is why I was amazed that I had never tried this simple pasta dish. After watching the show, I looked at [...]

If you’ve been following my blog, or just browse around you will notice that I like to try things at restaurants and recreate them at home. This recipe for stuffed mushrooms is no different. Stuffed mushrooms are pretty popular and can be found on many restaurant menus, for these I was inspired by the stuffed [...]