Wishes and Dishes

I hope everyone had a great Easter!  What did you do? Ours was really nice.  We had brunch at my in-laws house which included amazing homemade Belgium waffles with fruit topping, baked french toast, and basically every other breakfast or lunch food you could possibly imagine.  It was quite the feast.  We had an Easter [...]

I hope everyone had a safe St. Patty’s day weekend.  Did anyone do anything  fun?  I went to church, grocery shopped, and watched my #1 show, “Revenge”.  So nothing really out of the ordinary and no corned beef and cabbage for me.  I’m not gonna lie – I will miss all the green food and [...]

Shepherd’s pie is a classic British dish which pretty much everyone I’ve ever met has their own way of making.  I saw this twist on shepherd’s pie and waited about 24 before having to try it out.  It looked THAT good…and ended up tasting as good as it looked so I was very excited. If [...]

Happy Monday to everyone and I hope you all had a great weekend!  I had a nice, relaxing weekend.  Friday night we went with some friends to dinner at Chipotle (our new obsession) and saw the movie “Safe Haven” afterward.  Has anyone else seen it?  It wasn’t what I expected, but I did enjoy it.  [...]

I’d love to cook just about every recipe on Ree Drummond’s, AKA the Pioneer Woman, website but it’s only once in a while I get around to trying out one of her recipes.  One recipe I did try of hers was the Chicken Spaghetti that I posted about a while back – it was amazing [...]

I made very non-traditional empanadas last week on the spur of the moment.  I had a lot of leftover taco salad that I made and wasn’t sure what to do with it!  So to convince myself that I wasn’t eating taco salad again (I’m weird and I dislike eating the same thing 2 days in [...]

I hope everyone is having a good July so far and staying cool.  This hot weather calls for some lighter and yummy dinners! Every now and then I get a craving for tacos, but I wanted something different than just plain old tacos this time.  I decided on taco salad.  I must admit, I am [...]

The crock pot is great for creating savory meat dishes with rich flavor  and delicious sauces and gravies.  Almost any traditional recipe can be adapted to this versatile appliance.  What I love the most about crock pot recipes is that they require minimal  preparation time and have a “set it and forget it” cooking style! [...]