Wishes and Dishes

It’s that time of year, everyone!  You know what I’m talking about: May the 5th, also known as “Cinco de Mayo”… the one day that makes it perfectly acceptable to consume alarming amounts of chips, salsa, nachos, guacamole, and margaritas all day long.  We love Mexican food in our house, so celebrating Cinco de Mayo [...]

Happy Wednesday! Did you get a chance to enter my Wallaby Greek Yogurt giveaway from yesterday?  There will be THREE winners and you have until next Tuesday to enter! Yes, I have another Cinco de Mayo recipe for you today and it’s a winner Today I am on my way to Savannah, Georgia and couldn’t [...]

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 [...]

A lot of times I like to take shortcuts when it comes to side dishes for a meal.  This is mostly because I’m putting all my effort into the main course which tends to be a lot of work sometimes….and let’s be honest, I am not very good at multi-tasking.  In fact, I’m horrible at [...]

Oh, Mexican food…how you hold such a special place in my heart.  I could eat you each and every day if you didn’t effect my waistline.  Enchiladas? Fajitas? Chips and gaucamole?  Oh yeeeaaah… (just not chips and salsa, as we learned about me in my previous caprese salad post, I have a love/hate relationship with [...]

I am a huge fan of the cilantro lime rice at Chipotle Mexican Grill.  I am a huge fan of Chipotle everything, really.  Im very picky about Mexican food and usually a little skeptical, but this place meets my approval. So much of their meat is from naturally raised sources and this all-natural approach really [...]

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 [...]