Best thing I ever did was stop wrapping my kids’ gifts and instead put them all in “Santa sacks,” large cloth bags my mom made from festive fabric (she used them for us when we were little).

I’m sending this to my teenage son who loves all things cookies-and-cream. And who should expand his cooking repertoire beyond Tollhouse.

Dear God, please make this happen.

It’s possible that some evidence was excluded; if prosecutors can get that decision overturned or reheard that could make a difference. And it’s not just about presenting evidence, but telling a compelling story with that evidence. Presumably the prosecutors will spend the next few months analyzing what arguments…

I’d be fired if I made these kinds of sloppy mistakes as often as some of the writers do.

The parallel character arcs of G’Kar and Londo are possibly the best thing about this show. God I loved it.

It took me a shamefully long time to get this joke.

I still don’t understand how they got a show in the first place. They were not famous before, right?

This looks delicious, but if it requires me to boil the noodles first I don’t know that I’ll have the patience to make it.

Grilling a brined turkey on a Weber is what my husband does every year, and it’s the bomb. He uses wood chips and hardwood charcoal, and the bird gets a wonderful smoky favor. Plus it frees up the oven for me. The only issue is that we have to get a bird on the smaller side, which (given the ravenous folks in my…

We no longer have sufficient leftovers to do this, but I used to make a Thanksgiving shepards pie the next day, and it was fab.

I keep it simple with mulled cider -- cinnamon sticks, allspice berries, and cloves, along with an orange cut in half. If I’m feeling fancy, I stud the orange with the cloves first.

You missed out. I have no patience for teen angst, but this show was fun, witty, and sincere, and did it all without falling into the “Only teenagers know what’s up” trap so many other shows and movies (and books) do. Luke Wilson in particular did great work.

Well, since you love recs ... I recently read The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina and loved it. The show Dark Winds caused me to seek out Tony Hillerman’s novels, and they are good as both mysteries and glimpses of life in Navajo Nation. The Plot was fun, although I figured out what was going on early in the book…

My youngest son was asking for skeleton cookies just a few hours ago, so this is perfect except for the fact that while I am an accomplished baker, I suck at decorating cookies and cakes. There’s no way I can make the white chocolate look like bones, rather than white lines and blobs.

I have one of those giant ziploc bags in my freezer, into which I put onion, garlic, carrot, and celery scraps, and the carcasses of any roast chickens we ate (plus any raw necks, backbones, wing tips, etc. I may have removed) -- my husband calls it the Chicken Graveyard. When the bag gets full or when I need stock, I…

I’ll always remember one of my mentors (I used to be a lawyer) defending the jurors he dealt with as decent, intelligent people who took their jobs seriously, even if they hadn’t wanted to be on the jury in the first place. There’s an edgelordy quality to comments about jurors (especially the “too dumb to get out of…

Well, now I can’t unsee that, so thanks!

This sounds delicious, and almost no one in my family will eat it.