Christmas Corner

Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.
- Lenora Mattingly Weber



I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
- Harlan Miller



Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.
- George Matthew Adams



My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
- Bob Hope



Green Bean Casserole

Ingredients:
1 small can cream of mushroom soup
1/2 cup milk
1 small can sliced mushrooms, drained
1 small can French-fried onions
2 tablespoons pimientos 1/8 teaspoon black pepper 2 9-oz packages frozen French-cut green beans, thawed

Directions:

Step 1:
Preheat the oven to 350ºF.

Step 2:
Combine the soup, milk, mushrooms, half the onion rings, pimientos and black pepper in a large bowl and mix well.

Step 3:
Combine green beans and half the soup mixture in a medium bowl and mix well. Spoon into a 1 1/2 quart baking dish. Top with remaining soup mixture.

Step 4:
Bake for 20. Sprinkle with remaining onion rings. Bake until browned, about 5 minutes.