Wishes and Dishes

Clean your grills and pack your beach bags…it’s the official start of summer!  Yes, Memorial Day is really here already.  Where does the time go?  Sorry for my lack of posts this week but I have been keeping very busy here in California.  We started out in San Diego and made our way up to [...]

We are having a great time so far in sunny California!  What a beautiful state!  Here is a recap of our first few days we’ve had here.  Today we are on our way to L.A. for a couple of days which is a few hours north of where we are in San Diego.  We are [...]

Greetings from San Diego, California!  We are having a great time here so far with our friends Nick and Micah and it’s a really beautiful city.  Saturday was our first full day here and we went to Micah’s college graduation from California State University San Marcos.  It was a really nice outdoor ceremony and afterward [...]

Happy Friday!   Mr. Wishes and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary yesterday and went out to dinner at a new Italian restaurant we had never been to before called “Six-50″.  It was really good food and a fun atmosphere.  I had a spinach and artichoke grilled chicken sandwich on ciabatta bread and pasta salad on the [...]

Today is my 4th wedding anniversary with my hubby and to celebrate this special day I’m sharing a giant cupcake with you! Cupcakes are huge right now (no pun intended) and have been for several years it seems.  I got this Wilton Cupcake Pan as a gift last Christmas from my husband and it was [...]

I just realized I forgot to wish all of you ladies a happy Mother’s day this past weekend.  So…..happy belated Mother’s day to all you mothers reading this here blog!  I hope that you were showered with love and gifts. We had a nice streak of Summer weather going last week which got me in [...]

I’m really excited to share this recipe with you today.  This is an amazing dish that is popular in my hometown of Rochester, NY and the surrounding regions.  So popular, in fact, that some have suggested the dish be called “Chicken Rochester”.  This also just happens to be my husband’s favorite meal and he orders [...]

Happy Friday to you! I might have a little obsession with the soft pretzels you can get at the mall.  Whenever I walk past an Auntie Ann’s I always have a hard time not giving in to the heavenly smell.  I just love the cinnamon sugar pretzel bites and the almond sugar pretzels.  They are irresistible!  [...]