Pillsbury sponsored a post on Willow Bird Baking wherein I used their pizza crust for a grilled pizza project -- and these are the result! These mini-pizzas are adorable no matter how you cook them, but grilling pizzas turns out to be fast, delicious, and perfect for the summer. Leave the toppings on the side as a topping bar so everyone can create ( Read more... )

So hi! I've never posted here and just thought to myself, why the hell haven't I?
V. quick back-story: I don't know how to cook but my husband is a wizard in the kitchen (he went to culinary school) so I eat extremely well and take pictures of the special things he makes.

I give you....( bacon roses. )

More fun with steamed buns!

Instead of grabbing a burger at the drive-thru, why not make a drive-thru worthy meal where you control the ingredients and nutrition stats? How about some cute little cheeseburger steamed buns, complete with burger dipping sauce? I've been dreaming of this recipe since I saw Julia's vegan Big Mac Steamed Buns over at ( Read more... )

Summer is probably a weird time to post a braised recipe, but I made this back in March, that's my defense. >.> Ummm use fresh tomatoes instead of canned! Lots of tomatoes to use up at the end of the season, right? And autumn is close at hand...


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 In a few days, my hubby and I will be getting 1/4 of a cow from a local farmer. We asked them to give us the bits that they'd normally throw away, which include ( Read more... )

Thank you so much for your votes in Project Food Blog Round 2 -- Willow Bird Baking is one of only 200 blogs going on to Round 3, and I'm beyond grateful. The challenge for round 3 was to create a luxury dinner party, and thankfully, it fell on the perfect weekend to celebrate my parents' 39 year wedding anniversary ( Read more... )

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I tried my hand at Korean cuisine for the first-time ever. I went with some pretty typical dishes to start, because they're perennial favorites. This is one of the few times when I cooked for other people without having tried the recipes once myself first, to get a feel for making them and to ensure that they tasted as they were supposed to ( Read more... )