My Wooden Spoon

If you think brisket is hard to cook, think again.  It’s super easy and with my no fail recipe, you’ll have a tasty peice of meat to serve at the next summer party! My brother-in-law actually cooked the one below.  I just stood around taking pictures and a laughing at his sticking the garlic in [...]

Believe it or not, I’m not a big fan of peas and I can’t stand mayonnaise but I LOVE pea salad!  Weird considering 2 of the main ingredients are peas and mayonnaise.  Sometimes salads that contain lettuce and tomato get boring which makes this great for a change.  It’s cold and delish!
Super easy to make [...]

We were given a bunch of these the other day so I thought I’d share some food facts.
Did you know that Texas has two official peppers?  The Jalapeno and the Chitepin Pen.  Jalapeno, Bell, and Habanero (which happens to be 30-50 times hotter than a jalapeno) peppers are probably the most well known.
Jalapenos actually have [...]

We were given these enormous 12″ long Zucchinis the other day and the only thing we could think, at the moment, to do with them is roast them.  I’m sure we could have added all kinds of ingredients but we kept pretty darn simple as you’ll see below.
I did learn from Suncatcher, is that the [...]

I’m not quite sure why it’s not called a Tomato, Onion, & Cucumber Salad considering onions are in it too but, nevertheless, it’s a favorite around here and an easy to one to make!
Per my mother’s advice, I used a mason jar to give it “the look”.  Of course I was unable to find a [...]

A few of the comments I read in my previous post stated that more cultural food recipes are wanted.  Of course I absolutely want to try and do a little more of what everyone requested but today, I’m gonna start with this Japanese cuisine.  If you’ve never been to a sushi restaurant before, you MUST [...]

Do you have a clue of what I’m referring to???  Well, if you don’t, let me just tell you exactly what it is.  CALF NUTS,  CALF FRIES, or even BULL BALLS!   Oh yeah, I bet you’re licking your lips right now ain’t ya?!  LOL.
Believe it or not, this is a cowboy favoriteJ  Not mine mind [...]

This recipe was submitted by Dennis from the emealsforyou.com website. He also happens to be sponsoring my current giveaway for the 10yr membership to his website.
INGREDIENTS:

1 lb shrimp, deveined, shelled
2 Tb oil, olive
4 cloves garlic, chopped
1 pinch salt and pepper to taste

DIRECTIONS:
Place the shrimp, olive oil, chopped garlic and salt and pepper in a large [...]