Spatula Diaries

New year, new recipes

By Maggie Heyn Richardson, January 7, 2009

No doubt many of us have food-related goals this year, so to keep the recipe fires churning this year, here are a few Web sites to turn to when the idea file gets low. Read more...

A different twist on cabbage

By Maggie Heyn Richardson, December 29, 2008

As legend has it, the New Year’s Day meal has to feature a green in order to exorcise potential financial demons in the coming year. Read more...

Easy Santa cookies and more

By Maggie Heyn Richardson, December 22, 2008

I suffer from a cutesy deficit, which keeps me from being able to pull off the type of perfectly arranged kid-friendly dishes and desserts that festoon women’s magazines. Read more...

Disaster strikes!

By Maggie Heyn Richardson, December 17, 2008

I took off the lid, and saw total blackness. An utter pot roast disaster. Read more...

This little piggy

By Maggie Heyn Richardson, December 10, 2008

This year, Thanksgiving included mouthwatering spit-roasted turkey and suckling pig, whose golden, crispy skin I’m still dreaming about. Read more...

Browned bits on the bottom

By Maggie Heyn Richardson, November 19, 2008

I cook in cheap cookery all the time—a pot from a yard sale when I was a broke grad student, a pan brought into my possession from my husband's bachelor kitchen and so on. Read more...

Slow and sleepy

By Maggie Heyn Richardson, November 12, 2008

My grandmother has spent most of her 90 years dodging the kitchen, and still quips, “I hate the inside of a house. Give me the outside any day.” Read more...

I can eat 50 eggs

By Maggie Heyn Richardson, November 5, 2008

Eggs call my name every day. Read more...

Candy rituals

By Maggie Heyn Richardson, October 29, 2008

Fine foods and intense, gourmet prep may be the order of the day, but few are immune to the trashy candy ritual. Read more...

Butter and Brine

By Maggie Heyn Richardson, October 22, 2008

Oysters are fine enough jiggling there on the half shell, but Louisiana has its share of easy recipes that take the slimy bivalves and doozy them up. Read more...

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