The Wooden Spoon

Several years ago, I had a recipe for chicken breasts in a white wine sauce with lemon and tarragon. It was a fantastic recipe and I made ...

Continuing with our honey theme, here’s a recipe for glazed carrots with a little kick from ginger. I have in the past made cooked carrots...

It’s the week before Easter. I have these leftover egg whites and am trying to figure out how to use them up. I know! Coconut macaroon...

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...

Menu: Butternut Squash Soup Lemon-Honey Chicken Breasts Carrots with Ginger and Honey Tossed Salad with Honey-Mustard Dressing Honey-Wheat B...

A few years ago, I decided to make this recipe for a potluck lunch at work. I wrote “Chocolate Mousse Torte” on the signup sheet. About ...

There’s nothing better than the aroma of an apple pie baking. (Except maybe the aroma of a batch of cranberry–orange relish simmering on t...

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

I was raised on mashed potatoes. Except for those rare occasions when we had pasta in the form of spaghetti or macaroni and cheese, mashed p...

The first big holiday meal that I ever cooked was Thanksgiving 1980. Most of the dishes I prepared I had already made at some point. This wa...

I saw this recipe in the paper a couple of years ago and thought it sounded really good. It is. This is not like the stuff out of a can. ...

A Wooden Spoon Thanksgiving Menu: Cream of Mushroom Soup Turkey with Herbed Stuffing Perfect Mashed Potatoes A's Turkey Gravy Cranberry ...

Microwave ovens are a working woman’s best friend. You can cook delicious meals when you have time and then just quickly nuke them when you ...

Long, long ago when I was a young woman, the mother of the man I was then dating came to visit him. Not only were we serious enough that he ...

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...

My host for the impromptu dinner party is one of those rare people who likes spicy food. I decided to risk making my blackened chicken dish ...

I had an opportunity to do something that I haven’t done in years: host a dinner party. Well, almost. Someone else hosted, I cooked. By the ...

Fall is late this year. Normally by now the weather has cooled off and I am cooking up a storm. This year the temperatures have stayed in th...

A few weeks ago, I received an invitation to a Garden Party. I was delighted to be invited. The gardener who was having the party is renowne...

As mentioned in my last post , the squash harvest is starting, and I'm trying to figure out what to do with it all. I was intrigued by ...