Wishes and Dishes

Put your stretchy pants on for this one!  This is every cookie dough lover’s dream come true! This is a recipe for an unbelievably delicious dip that tastes EXACTLY like cookie dough and the best part is that you can eat as much as you want because it has NO eggs.  That’s right, you can [...]

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 [...]

Well, we got back home to Rochester late Monday night and it’s back to the grind.  We had a great time in Georgia and our friend Steve’s wedding was a lot of fun.  We didn’t really luck out in the weather department and had a lot of wind, cloudy skies, and some rain, but we [...]

I’m really sorry to have to do this to you, but I have the best cupcake recipe to share with you today.  Break out your stretchy pants before you bake these up because these cupcakes are FAN-TAB-ULOUS!  I just might sneak another because I know once Mr. Wishes gets a hold of them, only crumbs [...]

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 [...]

How was your Valentine’s day?  I think I’m still in a sugar coma….not that that’s a bad thing.  Mr. Wishes and I had plans to stay in and cook dinner together.  We have made this a tradition the past few years and I think it’s really nice.  I don’t mind avoiding super crowded restaurants and [...]

  I can hardly believe how fast Christmas is approaching.  Only one week from today. I, like everyone else, am just so heartbroken and sick over what happened in Connecticut and have been praying for all the families affected by this tragedy that God and his loving army of angels will begin to heal their [...]

Behold one of the very best desserts to come out of my kitchen in 2012. Mandel bread (translated to “almond bread”) is a twice-baked hard bread, cut into cookies, that is very similar to Italian biscotti (which we all know and love).  It is a Jewish dessert that was very popular in Europe with the [...]