Mixed Bean Salad
This traditional salad is a ‘make it now, eat it later’ recipe. Made the day before, it adds variety to your menu.
You will need:
1 can green beans (14 ounces or 2 cups)
1 can wax beans (14 ounces or 2 cups)
1 can red kidney beans (14 ounces or 2 cups)
½ cup chopped green bell […]

 If you’re going to do wine tasting, you need wine glasses! Sue Brown came all the way from Livermore, CA to experience the Calaveras Grape Stomp. And she brought her own wine glasses!
The rains came, and the music played on.
Several major events were scheduled for the weekend of October 4th and 5th. But promoters looked […]

As part of its Faith in Action Day, some 38 volunteers from Sierra Bible Church moved approximately 20 yards of river rock in under an hour on Sunday, September 29th at Twain Harte’s Eproson Park, putting the finishing touches on one phase of landscaping at the facility. This effort was one of 42 projects church members tackled in Tuolumne […]

 Will Antes, of San Jose took first place in the fiddle competition.
With umbrellas in hand, people braved the weather on Saturday, October 4th to attend the 26th annual Fiddle and Bango Contest in Columbia. “Our crowd was smaller than usual this year because of the rain, but we had an enthusiastic group who had a […]

Fennel
The Spanish padres who brought it to California called it Hinojo. Kids call it Licorice weed. The locals of Marin County call it Anise. (A similar tasting plant, but certainly not found in Marin County.) While carefully harvesting the seeds along the hillside that abuts San Quentin Village and the State Prison of the same […]