RACHEL ERICKSON

I'll admit that I gave up on my resolution last week. I was sick and tired of making crappy meals that we didn't really like, and we...

I keep hearing all this hype about cashew cheese sauces to be used as vegan substitutes for all kinds of dishes. So we decided to pull up...

With a successful trip to Natural Grocers, the hubs and I found a package of vegan breaded "shrimp" that we thought would go pretty good...

About 5 years ago, I read the "Skinny Bitch" books, and purchased a cook book to go along with it. Their big idea is that eating animal...

Ok, so I understand that we're on the path to learn about vegan foods, but I grew up in the mid-west. My grandparents owned cows for the...

This week, we took another meal that we've seriously mastered since we got married over 5 years ago. My husband and I would eat Mexican...

So after the first week trying to cook vegan, we decided to simplify the process a little. Instead of trying to turn a full recipe vegan,...

This weekend, I did my grocery shopping on Saturday morning. I'd planned to re-make the amazing Thai Chicken Coconut Soup that we'd loved...

After spending the past year really trying to learn how to use our beautiful new kitchen properly, I have to look back with a lot of...

As my final big cook of the year, the hubs and I went out and bought some live lobsters. Since we'd already had them boiled fresh by a...

After the duck legs and wings had their day in the fridge, we had to slowly cook the meat in its own fat to create our Duck Confit...

This was our third year in a row making an Italian feast for Christmas Eve dinner, and we decided to pull it back a notch this time. It...

With my little list of meals that I still wanted to try and cook this year, I made plans for Duck Confit on Christmas Day. So I went out...

I was pretty nerdy yesterday, and I actually woke up excited to cook dinner. ha Yesterday was my chance to try Carbonara in our...

As a perfect culmination to this year filled with cooking and adventurous eating, I had the awesome opportunity to learn some of the...

After watching an interesting episode on DDD a couple weeks ago, we saw a dish that we thought would just "scream" my husband. Pasta,...

This year in Colorado, we saw a cold and snowy Thanksgiving Day. We spent our morning battling the crowds at both the YMCA and at our...

Another Thai dish on our list to make was Drunken Noodles. Rice noodles in a sweet and spicy sauce, this time with chicken. The dish...

I came down with a nasty little head cold yesterday morning, and ended up passing off the cooking adventure to the hubs last night....

Last night, we took our love for burritos to the next level. With my parents in town visiting, we thought that it would be best to pick...