Wishes and Dishes

 Father’s Day is only two days away, and that means that the summer grilling season is in full swing.  One of the best things about grilling is that it makes for laid back, low maintenance entertaining and dinners, but that does not mean the menu has to be limited to your standard burgers and hot [...]

After that delicious, yet sinful Monster Cookie Dough Dip earlier this week, I figured I’d make an attempt at giving you a healthy recipe today. Thai flavors are my absolute favorite flavors to cook meals with because every dish is a huge flavor EXPLOSION.  I make Thai dishes any chance I get and my Thai [...]

Did everyone have a great weekend?  I had a really nice one.  Friday I got a job of baby-sitting for my 16-month-old adopted “niece”, Elliana, all day and night while my friends/her parents went to Niagara Falls for a special dinner with their relatives.  I absolutely adore (translation= borderline obsessed with) her so, needless to [...]

I hope everyone is having a great week so far.  As for me, I’m feeling under the weather.  It is never fun to come back from a great vacation only to get sick but I’m thankful that it happened after I got home so it didn’t ruin anything for me.  It doesn’t help that it’s [...]

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 [...]

I hope everyone had a fun weekend!  We had beautiful, warm weather here in Rochester and we took full advantage of it and did a lot of work in our yard.  There’s still a long way to go to get our lawn the way we want it, but at least we made a dent.  Quite a different [...]

This is a wonderful winter we are having here this spring!  Yes, I’m back to say that the weather here in upstate NY is no bueno and I am currently listening to balls of ice fall from the sky while the temperatures are back to the 30′s.  Come on, Spring! The weather is not very [...]

I hope everyone had a good week.  Here in Rochester, we are back to the snow, snow, and more snow…. and the cold.  We had a short span of weather in the 40′s, so that was nice.  I always get really anxious for Spring about this time during the winter.  On the plus side, the [...]