Our Small Table

I love raspberries, and used to just keep them on hand pretty much all the time.  But Yoplait has stopped selling the yogurt that is a ne...

For several years I found myself regularly running across recipes that called for "seedless raspberry jam", but couldn't fi...

I love couscous, and am happy to eat it in pretty much any form.  But sometimes I want a little something extra without having to go to a ...

This is another quick dish I had regularly growing up. I don't buy bread products at the store very often, because they tend to start...

I had never even heard of this type of cake until I got a Daughters of the Nile charity cookbook and saw the full-size recipe in it.  My ...

I am well aware that there are a lot of people who think that S.O.S. is disgusting.  It does, after all, stand for "Shit On a Shingle...

My mom has been making this applesauce for a good 45 years or so.  Back when she started, my great-grandfather gave her a crate of appl...

"Magic Shell" is, of course, a brand name, but it's the term most people are familiar with. This is the chocolate sauce fo...

There has obviously been a very long hiatus here. I'm not going to get too deeply into the reasons, but they're all health-related. ...

pie crust dough (homemade or purchased) 4 Tbsp grated sharp Cheddar cheese, divided 1/4 C sugar 1/2 heaping Tbsp flour 1/4 tsp cinnam...

1 large russet potato 1/4 C milk 1 Tbsp butter 2 Tbsp shredded Havarti cheese 1 tsp fresh dill salt and pepper to taste 1. Peel p...

Since the checker at the market chose to put my canned goods in the bag on top of my bananas, some had to be sacrificed to bread.  This wa...

When I was young, I had a lot of activities, from piano to Camp Fire to various things involving horses. For a lot of years one of those a...

We didn't have meatloaf very often when I was growing up, but I still find it to be a nice comfort-food dish.  This recipe can be mad...

I have a weakness for grocery store bakery frosted sugar cookies.  Those fat soft cookies with thick frosting and sprinkles on top?  I'...

This is a very simple recipe that produces a bread that's good for snacks or pbj sandwiches.  I've eaten it toasted or not, spread...

Growing up, my mom had an old recipe for baking powder biscuits that we all loved.  Soft and fluffy and flaky, perfect with jam or honey o...

Last Wednesday I leaned over the bed to pull off the fitted sheet for washing, and immediately felt a series of spasms in my lower back.  ...

Generally, if someone told me there was a spider in my kitchen, my response would not be one of joy or excitement.  In our house the e...

The cats have been waking us up very early recently, which means that we eat breakfast earlier than usual, then lunch and dinner as well, ...