Let’s face it, 2020 has been depressing. The only glimmer of hope we have left before this god-awful year gets put behind us is the Christmas holidays. Yes, now that Thanksgiving has passed us by, I’m totally into the holly-jolly mood of the season. Normally, we only put up our tree on the day after Thanksgiving and the rest of the house decorations come sprinkling in over the coming days. Not this year. Like some Hollywood production, it all went…
Apparently, I shouldn’t have raised a hand against the year 2020, else – like a woman scorned, she hammers back with a vengeance. I should probably explain. Last week, I wrote a brief article on how 2020 basically sucked in a number of ways, but the fickle hands of fate must have read my blog and thought “who is this clown?” and “how may I now reap misfortune upon him?” Let me give you a brief summary of my past…
To say that I’m completely over 2020 by now is an understatement. What a year. The pandemic rages on (yet people where I live still refuse to wear masks because – you know – ‘Murica). My kids are attempting to get through their 2nd years of college and senior year of high school at home by staring at a screen all day. We’re shopping around for colleges (for my youngest) that may (or may not) be holding classes next fall,…
For home cooks all over the country, the most important meal of the year is just three weeks away. Sure, Mom, Dad, or Grandma can occasionally burn a pizza, undercook some vegetables, or even hammer that fish in the oven from time to time and all will be quickly forgotten – but screw up the Thanksgiving Day turkey? The family will talk about and remember that indiscretion for years to come. That’s a lot of pressure on the host, and…
OK, so we made it through another Halloween, the clocks have been set back (for whatever reason), and I changed out all of my smoke detector batteries (a lesson hard learned from years past). Now it’s time to look forward to the two biggest holidays on the seasonal calendar – Thanksgiving and the “C” word. Notice I mentioned one and not the other, for it seems like every year Thanksgiving takes a back seat to that other ogre of a…