Wishes and Dishes

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!  [...]

Who loves or used to love the biscuits at Red Lobster?  This recipe is for a homemade version of those beloved and popular Cheddar Bay Biscuits served at Red Lobster restaurants. I have to say that I have always thought they are the planet’s tastiest garlic cheese biscuits.  I was never too crazy about the [...]

I hope everyone had a great weekend!  I didn’t do whole lot of anything.  Mr. Wishes was at a bachelor party camping trip for the weekend so I used that time to relax, clean my house, and get together with friends I hadn’t seen in a while. I’m constantly looking for new ways to bake [...]

Did everyone recover from that lost hour of sleep?  This is the first year that it’s really hit me losing that hour #signsimgettingOLD.   I did, however, enjoy that extra hour of sunshine more than ever so that made up for the lost sleep!  We had an pleasant surprise this weekend: Sunday was 65 degrees out [...]

Mr. Wishes surprised me this past weekend with a belated Valentine’s day gift.  He had Monday off of work and took me to stay at the downtown Hyatt hotel here in Rochester for a night on Sunday.  It was so fun!  He had packed a few things for me without me knowing and told me [...]

It’s hard to believe it’s July already.  It’s even more difficult to believe that 2012 is already half over, but I’m looking forward to all that is coming up this month: 4th of July festivities (yay, fireworks!), lots of birthdays (my nephews turn 10 and 6!) and my brother’s wedding is in less than 3 [...]

I settled into the kitchen to use up some black bananas to make this delicious snack cake.  Call it banana bread or call it cake, but either way it is SO easy and scrumptious and nice twist to a plain ol’ banana bread loaf. This cake is chock full of banana flavor and is the [...]

Consider yourselves special that I am sharing this “secret” family recipe with you…I just really want you to have the best of the best to serve at your holiday parties )  This always goes over well at parties – there’s never any left over. It’s no surprise that I’m a big fans of pizza but [...]