My wife took over the blog for the day. Here is Dana! I am from Queens, NY and one of the main Italian cuisine staples is vodka sauce! I wanted to make a delicious vodka sauce to celebrate our 2nd anniversary. We both loved this meal. I hope you enjoy it! Dana’s Rigatoni a La [...]
This past weekend we had a couple of friends (Janine and Robb) visit to see Dana and I. OK, who am I kidding, they came to see Liam. Anyway, I wanted to make a cocktail to celebrate the visit. They read the blog and have been telling me that they miss cocktail Wednesday. So I [...]
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Tags: awesome, beach cocktail, citrus, cocktail, mixed drink, recipe, summer, vodka 
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My son Liam has been cutting teeth like no other. Since he has had some teeth pop through, he has been loving real food. His favorite is Mac and Cheese, so I decided to go ahead and make some. I wanted to reward him for all of the hard work he has been doing. [...]
Posted in All, Recipes Tags: awesome, baked, best ever, breadcrumbs, creamy, delicious, mac and cheese 3 Comments »
Over the holiday season Dana and I went to visit my family in Michigan. While there, my Mom made us some enchiladas. These were a tad bit different from my normal enchiladas. They were meaty and delicious. I had to have the recipe. So I asked my Mom for it and she happily gave it [...]
This was the second cookie that Dana made for our Christmas cookie tins. I love snickerdoodles and could not even think of a way to improve on them. However, Dana found a way. She used browned butter instead of regular butter. The brown butter gave the already amazing cookies, a great rich flavor. These are [...]
Posted in All, Baking, Cookies, Recipes Tags: awesome, brown butter, browned butter, christmas, Cookies, delicious, easy, snickerdoodles No Comments »
I made one batch of these cookies and immediately had to make another. Dana and I loved them! They were delicious. We are dark chocolate fans so they hit the spot. If you wish, you can use standard cocoa and semi-sweet chips if you are not a fan of the decadent dark chocolate. Double Chocolate [...]
Posted in All, Baking, Chocolate Chips, Cookies, Recipes Tags: awesome, chip, chocolate, Cookies, dark chocolate, double, easy 3 Comments »
I just picked up a new pizza stone and have been making pizza a lot. I have been using my basic pizza dough recipe, but the other day I decided to mess around with the preparation and ingredients to see if I could improve upon it. I did. My new dough recipe is crazy good. [...]
The other day I was cleaning the garage and found a deep fryer that Dana and I received as a wedding present. It was perfect timing, as the Big game is approaching and I received a question on how to make homemade boneless buffalo wings. I have made wings in the past, but never boneless [...]
Posted in All, Appetizers, Buffalo, Chicken, Recipes Tags: awesome, boneless, boneless wings, buffalo, buffalo wings, deep fried, deep fryer, homemade, oil, scratch, wings 5 Comments »
I was trolling around the internet looking for some inspiration and discovered these tasty cookies over at SavorySights.com. They were posted by Fake Ginger and they reminded me of the super soft and delicious sugar cookies that the local Ukrop’s Bakery inside of Martin’s makes. They were perfect. Light and fluffy and exactly what I [...]
Dana and I love meatloaf. We have it at least once a month. However, having a food blog makes it hard to repeat recipes. So we don’t have it as much as we would like. So I started to think about ways I could change the recipe to make it new and blog-able. So I [...]
As a Midwesterner, I love meat and potatoes. The combination is amazing! However, sometimes it gets hard to spice up the combo. I discovered that the Swedes have been spicing up their potatoes for years. They fan out the potato and bake it making a mixture between a baked potato and a thick cut chip. [...]
Posted in All, Garlic, Potatoes, Recipes, Vegetables Tags: awesome, butter, Garlic, hasselback, parmesan, Potatoes, Sides, sliced potatoes, Swedish 4 Comments »
Dana has been craving pumpkin pie for a couple weeks now. I decided that I should break down and make her one. I wanted to try something different so I found a recipe from Paula Deen that uses cream cheese instead of evaporated milk. I made it and wow! It was awesome. Paula knows what [...]
It has been pretty cold here in Richmond for the past few weeks. I really enjoy the cooler weather as it allows for me to crank up the stove and oven and get to cooking. The summertime here is extremely hot and the last thing you ever want to do is add a little extra [...]
