Wishes and Dishes

I realize I need to step up my game when it comes to posting side dishes.  I have an abundance of main course dishes and an even bigger abundance of desserts, but side dishes sometimes get overlooked by me. I made this brown fried rice to go with some Asian turkey meatballs last week (that [...]

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 [...]

So I survived turning 30.  It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.  Maybe just the leading up to it was the hardest part.  I feel (and act) just as young as ever so it can’t be too bad! Ha, ha.  In all seriousness, I couldn’t have asked for a better 30th birthday.  [...]

I’m sorry if you’re getting this post twice, but my site was down yesterday and a lot of people weren’t able to access the recipe.  Therefore, here it is again! I’ve been very neglectful of my blog lately and it’s not happy at all with me, so I’m going to fix that today and make [...]

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 [...]

So I promised you all I would post some of the recipes that we made at the NY Wine and Culinary Center and I am a woman of my word! This dish was unequivocally delicious and it qualifies as a Fall dish because it has apples in it, as well as one of my fall [...]