Golden Raisin and Cheddar Risotto Stuffed Butternut Squash

Using Tillamook’s Sharp Cheddar cheese shreds, this hearty risotto is stuffed inside of some halved butternut squashes and baked to perfection. Read on for the recipe.

Hearty Butternut Squash and Double Tillamook Cheddar Soup

OHHHHH momma! It’s finally time to come clean about my addiction to BNS- butternut squash for those not in the know. Butternut Squash was never something I ate while growing up as my family opted for canned pumpkin for all of our gourd consumption needs. After college, I was introduced to Butternut Squash Soup and fell

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Creamy Tomato Soup with The Perfect Grilled Tillamook Cheddar Cheese

As I mentioned in this post here, this creamy tomato soup was inspired by my recent trip to Portland Oregon to visit my partners at Tillamook and to attend the Feast Festival! When we were at the Tillamook Creamery, we were treated to a delicious meal that included their prized tomato soup and fried cheese curds. I

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The Best Cheeseburgers You’ll Ever Eat (Plus a Time Saving Trick for a BBQ)

My absolute favorite food in the entire world is a cheeseburger. But not just any cheeseburger, unfortunately, I’m not that simple and rather particular about my order and will look over any offering of such “cheeseburger” claim on the menu if it doesn’t meet my high standards. The burger must be assembled as such: two

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Autumn Spiced Roast Chicken & a New Darling Eats Video

I get asked quite frequently “What’s your signature dish?” I reply with some sort of hemming and hawing until it hits me: roasted chicken. Roast chicken is one of those dinner’s that’s a gift that keeps on giving- everyone can get a piece of the bird that they like (white or dark meat) and you’re typically

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Summer Harvest Mac N Cheese & an Announcement!

Is there anything better than the end of summer veg that has been showing up at the farmers market? One of my favorite things to grab right now is mature arugula which has a full-bodied peppery flavor to it that isn’t quite captured with the baby arugula you find at the grocery store. This end of

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His and Hers Pizza Recipes

DO you guys like cheese? How about wine? How do you feel about combining both of these things on a patio during the warm months of summer? I hope the answer to all of those things are “I LOVE THEM PLEASE KEEP THE PATIOSPIRATION COMING.” Good! Because today starts the first of many posts brought

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Chicken Chasseur & Truffled Mashed Potatoes

I would like to think that in one of my past lives I was a provincial Frenchwoman of decent means. I would spend my mornings in the kitchen with the cooks making bread (eating bread), and my afternoons lounging in a field reading Gulliver’s Travels until the sun begun to set and I’ve have to

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Butternut Squash and Spinach Quiche

How many times can I say “It’s fall, Y’all” before you all get annoyed? I am leaning towards I’ve got about 5 more real uses left and about 10 additional sarcastically ironic uses left. But in other news, I’m currently obsessed with Butternut Squash. I don’t think I ate it at all in 2016, and for

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Classic Moules Marinieres

This year has been the year of the mussel. It started in January when I took my Grandma to Murphy’s for lunch when she had mussels and has continued on throughout the entire Summer with an almost semi-monthly feast on the little mollusks. There are no complaints here, however, with a basket of toasted bread

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