Bob and I had dinner at Noodles & Company the night he proposed. Romantic, no? We like pasta around here. Sometime after we moved into our house, I took to Google to find a copycat recipe for Noodles’s Pasta Fresca dish. I found something that involved the base ingredients listed on the menu and ended up tweaking it several times over to my own specifications, starting with the fact that I will likely never ever… Keep reading…Balsamic Garlic Pasta…Or Pasta Fresca…

I’ve never had Korean food. Not to my knowledge at least. Though usually when I see pictures (recipes, articles, whathaveyou) of such foods, there are a lot of things I think I’d probably like if I had the opportunity to try them. Though unless I actively seek out these foods, I probably won’t be trying any of it anytime soon. Such is life. I have no idea if this Korean Beef recipe is anywhere near… Keep reading…Korean Beef…

I’ve never had real Pad Thai. We ate at a Thai place on our trip to Denver, but I had something called drunken garlic noodles (and it was awesome). Bob had “traditional” Pad Thai and I guess I did taste it (and liked it), but I have no memory of what it actually tasted like at this point. I’ve never gone seeking for a Pad Thai recipe, but I’ve perused quite a few in all… Keep reading…Crockpot Pad Thai…

We like lemon around here. Especially lemon bars. But lemon bars can be time consuming and sometimes a person doesn’t want to wait forever for the lemon bars to set up. The original recipe called these “Cakey Lemon Bar Brownies” or “Lemon Brownies” … as in flavor like a lemon bar, texture of a cakey brownie. But since there is no chocolate involved, it’s not really a brownie. It’s a blondie. Lemon Blondies. Lemon Blondies… Keep reading…Lemon Blondies…

It used to be whenever I heard mention of ginger cookies, I thought of the thin, rock-hard, cut-out cookies that show up at Christmastime. They smell nice, but they’re not worth breaking your teeth on. When we moved into our house and I started itching to bake something, Bob mentioned that soft ginger cookies were his favorite. So I took to Google (Pinterest didn’t hit for another year or so) in search of a recipe… Keep reading…Soft Ginger Cookies…

I made Poutine. You heard me. I’d heard talk of this Canadian concoction around the intarwebz but I had never tried it. And then there was a new vendor at the MN State Fair last year that sold exactly that—Poutine. I’ve wanted to make my own ever since but just never got around to it. Recently Bob showed me a video he’d seen on making basic Poutine and then I really wanted some damn Poutine…. Keep reading…Poutine…