While most kids request pizza, pancakes, or French fries for their birthday feast, I was the outlier asking for my mom’s spinach casserole. Call me crazy (don’t worry, I never said I was normal!), but from childhood and into adolescence a heaping helping of this home-cooked meal—followed by ice cream cake—was my only birthday wish. Loaded with plenty of cheesy, creamy, spinachy goodness, it’s still one of my comfort food favorites. Find the recipe in this month’s Taste department, “From Our Family to Yours” (page 76), along with seven other culturally, carb rich dishes from Style staffers, including an easy butter chicken, hearty Hungarian goulash, and simple-to-make but hard-to-say lokshen kugel.
There’s plenty more interesting, informative editorial packed into these pages—including top family photo tips (“Picture Perfect”; page 70), ensuring this year’s Christmas card is extra merry and bright and more...
Enjoy the issue and remember to seek out life’s silver linings…today and every day. Cheers!
