For us, the best part of traveling is checking out local restaurants. On a recent work trip to Portland, OR, which Luke tagged along on for fun, we found some great restaurants and ate some really good food! Let’s start with breakfast. Obviously, there is Voodoo Doughnuts. Of the 20 or so different crazy flavors, we [...]

Pasta Puttanesca is one of our favorite pasta dishes. It's basically our "go-to" pasta recipe. The other day we were getting ready to make it and went to cookography to look up the recipe, only to discover that we've never posted it! A serious oversight on [...]

“Ga-wow, this is the most amazing dinner ever!” – Luke, pretending to be Jose Andres I was in LA for work this weekend and I got to check out Jose Andres’s newest restaurant, The Bazaar, which is in a brand new hotel called SLS. It was truly an amazing and entertaining experience. I wasn’t the only [...]

We have to thank our friends at Foodbuzz for tickets to the Washington, DC International Wine and Food Festival. It was the 10th annual and, while we’ve each lived in DC for close to 10 years, neither of us had been before. The wine festival was a two day event (we went the second day) [...]

Salads need not be limited to just lunch or an appetizer, they can be a meal! I threw this salad together one day after work when I was feeling too lazy to make anything. It was simply some of that lettuce that comes in those plastic boxes, an avocado and a can smoked tuna in [...]

Can you guess what this is? Give up? Well, it is a grain of salt from Bali! The salt is shaped like a little hollow pyramid. I zoomed in 60x with a toy digital microscope I have to get a better look. Below is a picture of the salt grain, but only zoomed in 10x. You can [...]

In Washington, DC there are a bunch of places to find products from Big Tree Farms. There is only one place in Bali, however, where you can get their products. A little challenge makes everything more fun though! I had a free afternoon so I got a car and headed 45 minutes north to the [...]

Sometimes you have to make the best of a bad situation…and a 9 hour layover is a bad situation. I was in Indonesia for work and on the way back I had a layover in Japan. After an overnight flight into Narita, Japan, I got off the plane and saw that it was drizzling outside…perfect [...]

We just got back from a week in San Francisco and Napa Valley and ate such amazing food and drank delicious wine that our trip deserves a recap! First stop in San Francisco was Zuni Cafe for appetizers of sliced heirloom tomatoes and marinated olives. We continued our walk to Nopa for a dinner of little [...]

Not cooking related, but food related….A little yogurt shop opened in Adams Morgan next to/in Todito’s Market (Right on Columbia, next to Cashions) called OYeah. I know what you’re thinking…”ANOTHER yogurt place in DC?!” But this place is different because it’s fresh and homemade yogurt (as in the breakfast food) with fruit and granola toppings. We stopped [...]

When you cook a 4 lb chicken for two people, you are bound to have a few left overs. Don’t sweat it though! Take those left overs, pick-out the bones and skin and then roughly chop up and the big pieces of chicken. Toss the chicken in a skillet and slightly brown it. Now cut [...]

Our panini press makes every sandwich just a little better. Even peanut butter sandwiches. This started out as a sort of boring ham and cheese sandwich. But adding sauteed mushrooms and pressing made it into a super sandwich. Add some tomato soup on the side and you have dinner! The mushrooms were sauteed with some [...]