The Wooden Spoon

Toll House cookies have been on my To-Do list for a couple of weeks. After the Allure of Chocolate talk and refreshments, I needed a palate...

There are recipes out there that call for already cooked poultry as a starting ingredient. I don’t usually make such recipes because I don’...

Pecan pie seemed like the obvious choice for dessert for the Nutty Thanksgiving. Only, I’d never made it before and was a bit uncertain ab...

I’ve decided that an important reason why Americans are so fat these days is that every dish served in casual dining establishments as well ...

Okay, I admit that one of the reasons I suggested nuts as the theme for this year’s Thanksgiving dinner (or, rather, last year’s at this po...

OldRoses did a great job of posting holiday recipes in a timely fashion. 'A' has gotten behind over the holidays and is trying to g...

This is another oldie but goodie whose origins are lost in the mists of time. I may have forgotten where I found the recipe, but I haven’t f...

I welcomed in the New Year with my favorite cocktail, Margarita. I began my hunt for a recipe at the Jose′ Cuervo site where I was directed ...

For my final Christmas cookie recipe, I made a cookie that I remember from the Christmases of my childhood. Christmas cookies were not a par...

Not being a black coffee drinker, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the Black Russian . I’m more of a café au lait person. I like a litt...

When I saw that the recipe for the Chocolate Tart called for Kahlua, the ubiquitous TV commercials immediately sprang to mind. I had just v...

As long as I was going to be doing something completely different for Christmas dinner , I wanted something really spectacular for dessert. ...

I resisted the siren call of cable TV for years. I didn’t watch a lot of TV. I’m more of a book and movie person. Reality TV does nothing fo...

After decades of doing the same things every Christmas, I decided this year would be different. Instead of a Christmas tree, I would make a ...

The record breaking Nor’Easter that buried New Jersey over the weekend threatened to disrupt my holiday baking schedule. After shoveling my ...

This is an oldie but goodie, a leftover from the days when I was cooking for a picky eater who was only willing to try new dishes if they ha...

I cheated this week. I made a recipe that I’ve made before. Once. A long time ago. But nothing says Christmas like Spritz, so I got out the ...

This is one of those recipes that is made with totally fake ingredients but I thought that if I liked it enough it would be worth trying to ...

Last fall, the Wooden Spoon cooks were part of a group that took a trip to Frelinghuysen Arboretum (see the report here ). While there, we ...

This recipe is slightly modified from the one I made for our last Wooden Spoon Thanksgiving two years ago. I cut the original recipe in hal...