Wishes and Dishes

Clean your grills and pack your beach bags…it’s the official start of summer!  Yes, Memorial Day is really here already.  Where does the time go?  Sorry for my lack of posts this week but I have been keeping very busy here in California.  We started out in San Diego and made our way up to [...]

What is everyone doing for Easter this weekend?  Fill me in! I am having brunch at my in-laws and then my mom is hosting dinner later on.  It will be a day full of constant eating, no different than any other holiday around here. Growing up, every Easter sunday my two brothers and I would [...]

Happy almost Easter!  How was everyone’s weekend?  I had a very enjoyable and action-packed weekend.  I got invited to Perry’s ice cream factory in Akron, NY on Friday afternoon.  I got to have a grand tour of their plant and be a taste-tester for a day!  Mr. Wishes came as my special guest and we [...]

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 [...]

I’ve never met a stuffing I didn’t like, but I do tend to prefer the more simple and traditional bread stuffing.  This might be because the stuffing is my favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal and I don’t like to “mess” with it at all.  I’m a stuffing purist like that!  I literally will have [...]

So my blog hasn’t been around ALL that long, but I thought I’d still give you a nice little roundup of some of my favorite recipes that would be perfect additions to your holiday feast.  Note: please forgive me for the embarrassing photos from recipes back in my early blogging days   Hopefully these ideas [...]

So, I made my first turkey and I did it before Thanksgiving so that if it turned out to not be a huge disaster, unlike a lot of things I have made lately,  I could tell you all about it.  Well, it turned out not to be a huge disaster and I actually give it [...]

Spring has sprung!  You know what that means:  spring cleaning, baseball, tank tops, Easter bunnies, and well.. allergies for many people, including me a little bit this year.  Bleh. I really love spring.  I can’t tell you how happy I am that winter is over and spring is finally here! (Even though we hardly can [...]