It’s Official: These Are the Best Thanksgiving Side Dishes

Thanksgiving has a reputation for endless brining methods, divisive side dishes, and argumentative relatives. Its no wonder hosting can be stressful. Unless youve gotThe Right Stuffing, that is. Sides are a way to provide variety, bounty, and potentially get a vegetable on your plate. This year, get weird with a side dish or two. Heres a roundup of our best Thanksgiving side dishes. Pommes aligot Mashed potatoes with cheese is one thing;pommes aligotis another entirely....

November 15, 2023 · 2 min · 364 words · Kelly Landry

Louis Le Prince, The Father of Cinematography

In any casual conversation regarding the history of film, the name of Louis Le Prince seldom arises. Le Prince was the man responsible for the very first recording of motion images on film. It was recorded one October day in 1888 in the garden of Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds. Louis Le Prince was born in Metz, in 1842. Later, he studied painting in Paris and then post-graduated in chemistry at Leipzig University....

November 15, 2023 · 2 min · 265 words · Susan Martinez

This Easy Cranberry Sauce Recipe Is Ripe for Riffing

Thanksgiving has a reputation for endless brining methods, divisive side dishes, and argumentative relatives. Its no wonder hosting can be stressful. Unless youve gotThe Right Stuffing, that is. Canned cranberry sauce is a common Thanksgiving choicemaybe youve eaten it for years. But have you ever found yourself feeling a little cran-curious? Have you ever paused in the aftermath of Thanksgiving wondering, could Imakecranberry sauce? Well you’re free to, and you should....

November 15, 2023 · 3 min · 480 words · Karen Walker

Today’s NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Wednesday, November 15, 2023

None of the words on the board are more than three letters long, and most are two. If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Does todays Connections game require any special knowledge?...

November 15, 2023 · 3 min · 569 words · Richard Cabrera

Give Your Sweet Potato Casserole the Loaded Baked Potato Treatment

Baked potatoes are bland and dry. Thats why splitting them and dumping on heaps of salt, fat, and dairy makes them better. If adding Marshmallow Fluff orswiss meringueto sweet potatoes is risky, loaded sweet potato casserole is truly dangerous. The resulting side dish offers a symphony of textures: crunchy, crispy, chewy, and creamy. Its beautiful and it’s flexible; customize it by adding less or more of what your crowd likes....

November 14, 2023 · 2 min · 337 words · Heather Frederick

Today’s NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Youre going to WIN this one easily, I bet. If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Does todays Connections game require any special knowledge? Theres one reference to a pop star, but otherwise the words all mean what they say....

November 14, 2023 · 3 min · 453 words · Kelly Roach

You Can Make Beef Wellington, I Swear

Beef Wellingtonor Welly, as some chefs call itis intimidating. It is, in a word, a real banger. And its not that hard. “The goals here are uniformity and dryness. Dump these into a bowl and keep going until youve processed them all. verify youre moving around the whole pan in a circle, either clockwise or counter-clockwise. The cookbook recommends a 14 x 20 rectangle. you’ve got the option to repurpose the parchment later in the recipe....

November 14, 2023 · 4 min · 676 words · Terry Woods

The Future Is Here With the Roomba Combo J9+ Robot Vacuum and Mop

But the J9+ isnt like that. It quietly toils away and rarely requires attention beyond emptying the bin and refilling the water tank. It actually does what youd want a robot vacuum to do, and it does it with style. The machines sensors even identify areas that are particularly dirty and it gives them a second pass. But the complexity required for the J9 to work is never passed on to the consumer....

November 13, 2023 · 2 min · 258 words · Julie Kelly MD

The Leicester Balloon Riot of 1864

One such unfortunate incident transpired during a demonstration by British aeronaut Henry Tracey Coxwell. James Glaisher (left) and Henry Tracey Coxwell ballooning in 1864. Coxwell and Glaisher hadsoared to the stratospherein a hot air balloon reaching an altitude of 35,000 feet. In the thin, oxygen-deficit atmosphere, Glaisher had passed out and Coxwell lost all sensation in his hands. On the day of the flight, a crowd of about 50,000 people gathered on the racecourse....

November 13, 2023 · 1 min · 207 words · Robert Williams

These Are The U.S. Cities With the Highest and Lowest Cost of Living

Living expenses are continuing to squeeze budgets everywhere (thanks, inflation), but of course, not all cities experience these costs equally. There’s a wide gap between the U.S. cities with the highest and lowest cost of living, according to rankings from theCouncil for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), which publishes a quarterly cost-of-living index across 269 urban areas. The index covers the cost of housing, utilities, groceries, transportation, health care, and miscellaneous goods and services....

November 13, 2023 · 2 min · 383 words · Jeremy Giles

Today’s NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Monday, November 13, 2023

Todays board looks like a stationery store, but the four categories each have their own unique HALLMARKs. If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Does todays Connections game require any special knowledge?...

November 13, 2023 · 3 min · 497 words · Christopher Sloan

Today’s NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Sunday, November 12, 2023

Theres a lot of tricky stuff here today, but dont worry, Ill COACH you through it. If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Does todays Connections game require any special knowledge?...

November 12, 2023 · 3 min · 486 words · Kimberly Miller

Today’s NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for Saturday, November 11, 2023

Youll have a BALL solving this one! If you want an easy way to come back to our Connections hints every day,bookmark this page. Below, Ill give you some oblique hints at todays Connections answers. And farther down the page, Ill reveal the themes and the answers. Scroll slowly and take just the hints you need! Does todays Connections game require any special knowledge? Green category - Lets party! Blue category - The best boy would know about these....

November 11, 2023 · 3 min · 500 words · Michael Smith