Wishes and Dishes

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 [...]

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 [...]

Happy Monday to everyone and I hope you all had a great weekend!  I had a nice, relaxing weekend.  Friday night we went with some friends to dinner at Chipotle (our new obsession) and saw the movie “Safe Haven” afterward.  Has anyone else seen it?  It wasn’t what I expected, but I did enjoy it.  [...]

So I just had one of the most interesting (a very good interesting) weekends I’ve ever had in my entire life.  It’s been on my bucket list for years and years to go down to the small town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania for the Groundhog Day ceremony and events.  As some of you know, it’s one [...]

I’m dedicating this post to a wonderful lady that I had the pleasure and privilege of knowing for a mere 5 years of my life.  My husband’s sweet grandmother, Differdange AKA “Rose”, passed away a little over a month ago at the age of 93. This was a huge loss to the entire family and [...]

So it’s been one week already and we are all moved in to our new house!  So far it’s been a lot of work unpacking, cleaning and patching things up…but we think we are going to love having our own house.  I seriously feel like I’m living in a mansion.  Going from living in a [...]

I hope everyone is staying cool this week in this crazy 8 billion degree weather, AKA the surface of the sun!  My sorry excuse for an AC unit in our apartment has been imperative to my survival this week.  But leave it to me to choose the hottest day of the year so far to [...]

Mr. Wishes got me a really cool cookbook,  The Frankies Spuntino – Kitchen Companion and Cooking Manual, for Christmas this past year and I finally got around to making a recipe out of it.  I knew right away after reading through the whole cookbook back when I first got it that this “Orecchiette with Pistachios” [...]