Bailey’s Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Cup Frosting

For our good friend Beth’s birthday last week, Stacey and I made this cake thanks to a tip from the birthday cake fairy (Jen) who let us know what Beth’s ideal cake might look like. We took some liberties; including the philosophy I strictly abide by which states that all desserts should include booze. So, [...]

White Roughy, Brussels Sprouts and Tomato Bake

Stacey whipped up this phenomenal dish this week for Valentine’s Day. It was one of my absolute favorites she’s ever made. She marinaded the white roughy in olive oil, lemon juice, honey, brown sugar a generous portion of red pepper flakes and some Amish seasoned fish salt I picked up in Shipshewana, Indiana (any fish [...]

Homemade Feta, Tomato, Pepperoni Whole Wheat Pizza

Making homemade pizza, drinking beer and watching basketball is pretty much the best way to spend a weekend evening in the winter in the Midwest, if you ask me! While making homemade pizzas is a pretty common occurrence for us, this week, we prepared a new pizza which had feta instead of mozzarella, pepperoni and [...]

Soy Ginger Salmon with a Yam and Kale Salad

We had some frozen salmon we needed to use up so recently we baked a couple of filets after marinading them in garlic, ginger soy sauce, brown sugar and olive oil for a few hours. We just put the marinade down in the baking dish, put the salmon in and covered it with foil. We [...]

Spicy Black Bean Vegetable Soup

Stacey whipped up a delicious HOT and healthy soup when good friend Erin P. came over for dinner the other night. The soup started with this recipe from allrecipes. She added some kick by loading up on the chili powder and cumin (and set the hot sauce out on the dinner table, of course!). She [...]

Simple Shrimp and Broccoli Stirfry

We have been abnormally busy with school and work lately and have thus taken some help with our cooking- not making everything from scratch. With this basic stirfry we got our help from store-bought stirfry sauce. We used a garlic, green onion teryaki sauce. It was fabulous and we will definitely use it again! The [...]

Lip Smacking Fish Pockets

Tonight, Stacey and I collaborated to create a delicious poached tilapia in foil pockets. We first covered the foil in olive oil, red wine and herbs including basil and rosemary. Then, we put down some chopped onion and garlic. We laid the fish filets down and topped them with olive oil, salt and pepper before [...]