Enjoy the holiday with improved green bean casserole
Many of us will have a green bean casserole on our Thanksgiving table, regardless if we like it or not. I was never a fan because it always seemed too “heavy” and lacked good flavor. I have had a change of heart over the last year and began to enjoy green bean casserole. My taste had not changed, but the recipe had. This week, I share my recipe for an “improved” Homemade Green Bean Casserole.
Dickens’ novels well worth reading
Dear readers, I present to you, Mr. Charles Dickens, a man of his time, the time of the Victorians - and also a man of our own modern time. Allow me to have the portentousness to suggest that Mr. Dickens, that titan of Victorian literature, if he were alive today, would find in our age a blend of social commentary and larger-than-life characters to fill a hundred great novels.
A last look back in the rearview mirror
You know, friends, it isn't just any year that, in drawing to
Other festivals in America go to extremes
Now that the 30th Gilroy Garlic Festival is over, I'd like to