The Wooden Spoon

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I decided to make this cheese and onion tart. The recipe was published in the Gardener News about a year ago...

Hi, this is A again - Oldroses decided to give me access to her blog so that I could post recipes directly. So here's a recipe I made l...

I don't know why I suddenly got a craving for chicken stir fry. I haven't made this dish in ages. It's another one of those reci...

"A" has made a couple of the recipes from the January 2007 issue of Family Circle magazine. Now it's my turn. I wanted to try ...

Every January, the Steering Committee of the Middlesex County Master Gardeners sponsors a get-together for all of the Master Gardeners. They...

In addition to the Black & White Brownie Delight , "A" also made the Peanut-Sesame Noodles from the same issue of Family Circl...

This is a guest post written by my good friend "A", a founding member of the Straw Hat Society and fellow cooking enthusiast. We ...

Last June, I was intrigued by a recipe for a cake that could be prepared three ways , as a cake, a coffee cake and as cupcakes. I bookmarked...

I wanted to do a completely different Christmas menu this year. I've made roast beef, onion soup and cheesecake for years. This year I w...

I was recently invited to participate in a recipe swap. The stipulations were that the recipe I submitted should be easy to make and not hav...

My department at work had its annual Christmas party tonight. Originally I had planned on making my version of the Bacardi Rum Cake becaus...

Little pieces of heaven. I should leave it at that. They are that good. Really. Taste them for yourself. I'm always on the lookout for n...

This recipe came to me all the way from Indiana via my good friend, A, who frequently appears in my garden blog . She got it from a friend o...

I only bake pies three times a year. Blueberry, when the blueberries are in season, apple when the Macintoshes are in season and a pumpkin p...

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...

I've been hearing a lot about focaccia but never actually tasted it. The few times that I have gone out to dinner, it was not on the men...

I don't like Starbucks coffee. And even if I found myself in a Starbucks, I wouldn't purchase any of their baked goods because I pre...

Since I started this blog, I've noticed that all of my cookbooks are old. I haven't bought a new one since I was divorced 14 years a...

As long as I am home and cooking this week, I decided to try a new breakfast treat. I got out my muffin cookbook and looked for a recipe wit...

I'm off from work this week to get my bulbs planted. Naturally, after a week of gorgeous, warm weather, this week is predicted to be muc...