The Wooden Spoon

Despite consistent spectacular failures, I still fall for NYT recipes so it should as no surprise that I am also seduced by online reci...

I’ve had a heavenly recipe for sweet potato pie bookmarked for quite a while. I was sure that I could use it for our Healthy Thanksgiving . ...

As I have noted previously, baking Christmas cookies was not a holiday tradition in my family. Because I’m not sure what is considered a Chr...

I bought my Betty Crocker cookbook in 1980. It is the 1974 edition and showing its age. Not only are some of the ingredients outmoded, the n...

I started my holiday baking early this year because … does anyone really need a reason to start their holiday baking early? Maybe it’s becau...

Yuck! Blech! Eww! Dee-sgusting, as a younger relative of mine used to say. What started out as an experiment in new flavors and pastry techn...

One would think by now that I would have learned the two most important rules in cooking: Never try out a new recipe when company is coming ...

Obviously dessert for the Valentine dinner had to involve chocolate. That was a given. And the theme was “pairings”, so it had to be choc...

Chocoholic that I am, I have a strange paritality for Blondies. I’ve only tasted commercially prepared ones. My search for a decent recipe s...

Who can resist a recipe that is billed as “outrageous”? I certainly can’t. I’ve been making the same carrot cake recipe for years. It’s f...

I have totally outdone myself. Always on the lookout for interesting recipes and taking great pride in finding them in the most unlikely pla...

While searching for something new and different to bake, I started pulling all of my cookbooks off the shelf, including The 1896 Boston Cook...

I try to bake every weekend, but A’s Orange-scented Bittersweet Chocolate Cake was a hard act to follow. Time to try something completely d...

Carrot with Ginger Soup Lemon-Ginger Chicken Roasted New Potatoes with Rosemary Peas and Pearl Onions Beet Bread Orange-scented Bitterswee...