The Wooden Spoon

I was raised on steak and potatoes. There was always a big slab of meat, usually beef, on our plates accompanied by a small mountain of mash...

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 fell for the hype. Twice. There was an article on Yahoo about the “best” chocolate chips and the “best” chocolate chip cookie recipes. I’v...

This is a recipe that I “stockpiled” over the summer. I saw it on Yahoo (originally from Epicurious ), loved it and bookmarked it for trial ...

My garden produced a good crop of carrots this year, and it’s cooled down enough now that the idea of carrot soup was appealing. So I went l...

When I was a child, the custom in our family was that the Birthday Boy or Girl chose the dinner menu and the birthday cake. My mother wasn’t...

I was feeling under the weather last weekend, no energy to cook, so I went with one of my default options: takeout Chinese. The local Chines...

My printer at home is broken. Canon wants me to ship it back to them so that they can repair it. I’m not sure that it’s worth it. Do I reall...

I’ve mentioned before that I find recipes in the unlikeliest places . This time I was reading Gardener News , a periodical aimed at gardener...

Woo hoo! Summer is over. The cooler temps of fall have tempted me back into the kitchen. So this past weekend when I experienced a sudden ur...

One of my coworkers has her birthday at the end of July – blueberry season here. The last couple of years I have made blueberry pies for the...

I saw this recipe in the paper and was intrigued. Lowfat brownies...sounds like a good idea…and the Christmas cookies are all gone, so ...

My introduction to pound cake came at the Bronx Zoo during one of family’s rare vacations. I don’t remember why we hadn’t breakfasted at the...

I LOVE lasagna, but I don’t make it very often. The one recipe I had was rather laborious, and the result just wasn’t satisfactory, though...

A borrowed my Silver Palate cookbook recently and when she returned it, I flipped through it. I hadn’t looked at it in years. I was surprise...

I’ve been in the mood for cookies but I couldn’t find any cookie recipes that really grabbed me so I turned to my personal cookbook. Nope, s...

I’ve been making pancakes for years using Half & Half instead of milk because that is what I have in the refrigerator. I love buttermilk...

This seems to be my week to plunge into the culinary unknown . Red velvet cake has intrigued me for a long time. A southern tradition, it wa...

For many years, I had no idea what couscous is. I’d seen it written about in recipes. I’d seen photos of it illustrating recipes. But I coul...

After the Black-Bottom Coconut Bars fiasco, I wanted to give Martha a chance to redeem herself. There’s been a special on the site featurin...