Wishes and Dishes

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 [...]

Signs I’m turning 30 soon (as in..this coming Sunday!): I actually started getting serious about eating more than one vegetable per year.  I have been drinking smoothies with spinach in them (OMG!).  I’m working out on a regular basis….!  I think this can be referred to as a mid-life crisis. I think I’ll call it [...]

There are a ridiculous number of foods I always claimed or thought I hated my whole life and then all of a sudden grew on me and now I love them.  Coconut is one of these foods.  I guess it’s true that your taste buds change with old age!  I have learned to love the [...]

I’m taking a little break from the hot Miami sun to tell you about a little something I made for “brinner” last week.  It’s a little something I like to call Banana and Nutella Stuffed French Toast. “What the heck is brinner?”, perhaps you may be wondering.  It is breakfast food for dinner and it’s a [...]

Buttermilk seems to make everything better.  This is a simple cake-like-but-not-dessert-like recipe to make for a morning treat. Have you heard of Pinterest?  If not, you are totally missing out.  If you have heard of it, then you probably know it is by far the best place to find new and interesting recipes to try [...]

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 [...]

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! The snow elf decided to show up a few days late here in upstate NY, just robbing us of a white Christmas!  We did get a measly dusting on Christmas Eve that melted but ten minutes later when the sun came out.  There’s always next year! As I [...]