Homemade Butterfingers

These are some of the most amazingly delicious homemade candies I've ever had. Ever. I am not a huge fan of the traditional Butterfinger candy bars and will never eat another again now that I've tasted these. C and a good friend of hers made these and the recipe is theirs. It's probably best that I still think these are super complicated or else I might only eat Butterfingers for the rest of the time candy corn is available in the stores.

Steak with chimichurri sauce

We recently had a bunch of cilantro and parsley that needed to get used quickly. Luckily, we found an amazingly delicious and surprisingly easy chimichurri sauce to enhance a skirt steak. (You might notice the meat in the photos isn't skirt steak, our local grocer had thin New York Strips on super sale, so the second time we made this, we used those. But I promise the recipe works just as well with the skirt steak.)

San Francisco Shrimp

We've been on a shrimp kick again. Only this time, we're eating more than just the sriracha shrimp. J bookmarked this recipe on a wonderful recipe finding site, Big Oven. So far almost every thing we've made from the site has been delicious. While at first glance this dish may seem time and labor intensive, … Continue reading San Francisco Shrimp

Nordstrom Tomato Soup

We don't live anywhere near a Nordstrom's or the next best place for tomato soup, La Madeline. So we had to find a way to make it ourselves. Luckily, J found this recipe on Food.com. With a few tweaks, we could be back in San Antonio at La Madeline enjoying this soup by their fire.

Japanese hibachi style fried rice

After a recent trip to our local Hibachi grill, we realized that copying the food at home wouldn’t be that difficult. So after a quick internet search, we found exactly what we were looking for the fried rice recipe. Ingredients: 4 cups White Rice, short-grained, cooked 1 cup Green Peas 2 tbsp Carrot, shredded (we … Continue reading Japanese hibachi style fried rice