the wooden spoon

apparently a wooden spoon & a blender don't mix, as i found out the hard way tonight. i was chopping ham & onion in the blender (since ian kindly misplaced the lid to my favorite chopper) for ham croquettes for supper. i was having trouble getting them chopped like i wanted--the blender was not nearly as effective as my little chopper--so i thought i would try to push the ham down so it would catch the blades. it seemed like a good idea in theory, but in reality--not so great. the ham & onion got chopped alright, but as you can see from the picture, so did the spoon. then, not only did i still have to get my ham and onion chopped, but i had to go through it and pick out splinters of wooden spoon from the mixture!