Saturday, November 17, 2012
This is an item even a person who fears the kitchen can make.
So you get that call early next week from the host of your Thanksgiving dinner (maybe it's your mother, grandmother, a friend or even somebody you barely know), and the person tells you in so many words that this meal isn't free. You don't have to pay for the food, but you must contribute to the meal. "Uh-oh! I can barely handle microwaving a Hot Pocket," you think to yourself. What do you do? Do not just go to the store and buy a box of instant mashed potatoes. Trust me, they'll notice. But don't freak out, not all recipes are complex. It is possible for those whose cooking experience is limited to stirring ramen noodles to contribute a tasty food item to the Thanksgiving meal. The following recipe for cranberry sauce is from my mother …
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Thursday, Nov. 24: Bringing you live coverage of the Hockomock League Thanksgiving games (Stoughton at Canton; OA at Sharon; Mansfield at Foxboro; KP at Franklin; and Attleboro at North Attleboro).
Welcome to the Patch Hockomock League football LIVE blog. The Patch teams in Stoughton, Easton, Foxboro, Wrentham and Attleboro will be bringing you LIVE updates from the Thanksgiving Day games between: There’s so much more than bragging rights at stake this Thanksgiving. Three teams in each Hockomock Division are still alive for a postseason berth—OA, Stoughton and Sharon in the small schools Davenport Division and King Philip, Mansfield and NA in the large schools Kelley-Rex Division. Each Division champion will advance to the playoffs, with the Kelley-Rex champion playing Duxbury in the Division 2 playoffs and with the Davenport champion playing Pembroke in the Division 3 playoffs. For a complete breakdown of playoff scenarios for both …
Monday, November 21, 2011
The fruit of one's labours.
President George Washington designated November 26, 1777 as the first Thanksgiving Day recognized by the US government. In the years that followed, each state scheduled its own Thanksgiving holiday at different times, until Abraham Lincoln made it an ongoing National holiday. His proclamation read, “I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwells in the Heavens.” For most of us, Thanksgiving goes by in a blur of family, friends, holiday preparations, and a table of traditional dishes. The story of …
Jonathan Friedman
12:12 pm on Monday, December 3, 2012
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