Blog - Wood & Spoon

Chocolate Cake

Posted on January 4, 2016

Everyone has a go to recipe. It's the one you've made so frequently that you've nearly memorized it. It's the one you carry with pride into a party and it's the one you submit to the church cookbook at the end of the year. A word on this. Who are the people that are still submitting recipes for gelatinous salads? Are we still eating these things? Ladies and gentlemen, this is not the 1950's. Unless you're pouring up that jello mold because you have plans to recreate that scene from "The Office" where Jim puts Dwight's stapler in a bundt pan of Jell-O then please, let me urge you to reconsider. Maybe it's my years of working at hospitals or the emotional scarring I've endured from having a husband who would rather eat a pudding pack than have a slice of homemade cake, but let the record show that if you...

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Cranberry Pear Mini Pop-Tarts

Posted on December 3, 2015

by Kate

If you follow me on Instagram or have known me for longer than ten minutes, you have probably gathered that I have a bit of a sweet tooth. God bless decent genetics and enough spare time to exercise occasionally because otherwise, I'd be in deep. Surprisingly though, I'm a bit of a health-nut//control freak when it comes to my daughter, Aimee. It's really important to me that she eats appropriately (even if mom cheats a little every now and then daily), so she's typically pretty limited on what she's allowed to have. Truth be told, this is in part due to me not wanting to deal with a picky eater, and even more embarrassingly, because I don't always want to share my treats. The day she learned to say the word "cookie", I pretty much melted and knew my days of solo cookie consuming were over. She's a girl after my own heart.Needless to...

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Butternut Squash Soup

Posted on November 2, 2015

by Kate

I'm starting to realize that we will never stop learning.Years out of college and a decade from high school, I can tell you that my learning here on earth has only just begun. In school, our studies were a series of numbers, punctuation rules, and a seemingly endless list of things to memorize. I can still tell you the name and order of all of the planets in our solar system, and I can even pronounce the word "onomatopoeia", both things my seventh grade teacher tricked me in to thinking would somehow be helpful in my adult life. Today my studies are vastly different and infinitely more practical. I study my daughter as she explores with her tiny fingers, eyes, and feet and as she so innocently discovers new things like wind or the sound of a train. I pour over new recipes and study my husband's reaction while he taste tests for...

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Apple Crisp Ice Cream

Posted on October 5, 2015

by Kate

So apparently last week marked the first days fall. This is news to me, as I thought that Labor Day was actually the last day of summer. If this is untrue, why do the powers that be dictate we cannot wear white after Labor Day? I neither listen to nor support this regulation at all; In fact, I'm hereby making it my personal mission to incorporate white into my wardrobe as frequently as possible this fall/winter season. I'm pretty sure I saw Taylor Swift wearing a white crop top sometime last winter so naturally if Taylor does it, it's ok. She can do whatever she wants. I luh you, Tay.Fall always makes me think cinnamon, caramel, apples and pumpkin-- all delicious things I love! But here's my problem with the onset of fall foods:I MISS THE SUMMER FOODS.I want to eat pico de gallo off of salty chips and drink a margarita...

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Chocolate Cake

Cranberry Pear Mini Pop-Tarts

Butternut Squash Soup

Apple Crisp Ice Cream

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