Green Bean Casserole?

It's time to think about holiday food and eating! So start polishing the silverware, shop for the best bird and think about fresh flowers for the table. Wait. That's what my mother and I did. Things are different now. That polishing, shopping and thinking have been relegated to the dusty past along with phones with finger dials, no watching TV during the day and wearing skate keys on dirty strings tied around our necks.
No. Holiday food today means "green bean casserole." People: no matter how modern you are, lose this idea. This "casserole" is nothing but a lot of canned stuff topped with lots of salty stuff. Not good. Speaking of salty, another thing to leave off the menu is Stovetop Stuffing.
This is just another way to process your veins into canals that will soon stop flowing. Make your own stuffing. It's easy. It's sort of like making midget toast pieces with seasonings of your own selection. And go buy fresh vegetables and dress them lightly with some lemon and herbs. And, please, don't put marshmallows on yams/sweet potatoes. That's like trying to trick the kids into eating vegetables. They'll just eat the marshmallows and leave naked yams on their plates.
So you do all that the way I've done in the past with all the happy, smiling relatives drifting in and out of the kitchen. Actually, that is a lie. Those holiday memories are treasured ones that belong to my sister and me as we think about our family holiday meals in the past. The more current memories include scenes not really fit for the likes of this page.
Instead, we will be feasting on good, country food at the Silver Falls Conference Center. We'll just walk in, get in line, and load our plates and then balance them carefully as we make our way to the benched tables where we'll sit with our friends and tell happy tales of Thanksgivings past.