The Wooden Spoon

For our Healthy Thanksgiving , I went in search of soup recipes that were broths instead of creams. To my dismay, the “fall” or “harvest” so...

I still have some carrots from this year’s (or, more accurately, last year’s) garden, and I thought a good use for them would be to make a c...

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

In keeping with our “nuts” theme for Thanksgiving, I wanted to try a butternut squash soup recipe completely forgetting that A had already m...

Pureed Butternut Squash Soup Cranberry-Orange Relish with Walnuts Baked Acorn Squash Nut Bread Herbed Mashed Potatoes Chestnut Stuffing Dry...

A cooler than normal summer is being followed by a warmer than normal autumn. Yesterday, a cold front with rain moved in and we’ve been get...

I was on a soup kick for a while in the spring. My goal was to find a good minestrone soup recipe. Along the way, I found what looked like a...

This dish was the soup course at our Valentine's Day Dinner. You may recall that all the recipes at this dinner had honey in them. Th...

Holidays mean tradition, especially when you have children. In our house, we had a set menu on Thanksgiving and Christmas. They both include...

I love split pea soup. I’ve never made it, though because I lack one key ingredient: a ham bone. I live alone. I never have occasion to make...

I'm always on the look out for soup recipes. I only make three kinds of soup regularly: mushroom, onion , and potato . I would love to f...

The annual Fall Foliage Festival at Rutgers Gardens was held yesterday. Volunteers were urged to bring breakfast treats to share and a lunc...

Some friends took me out to lunch to celebrate my birthday last weekend. Two of them ordered French Onion Soup. I asked T, who is an excelle...