Cinnamon Rolls
This August, we had a visit from some cousins from England: Daksha Hathi and her daughters Krishna and Nirali. Jagdish (her husband) couldn't make it, and these cinnamon buns were…
For those who love Greenfield, MA (and hate sprawl)
"Talking to the Wall" is documentary film maker Steve Alves' account of Greenfield's 1992 battle against Wall-Mart which made it the first town in the country to successfully reject Wall-Mart's…
Gluten-Free Coconut Cake
This recipe is adapted, very distantly now, from the Ukranian Poppy Seed Cake recipe in Mollie Katzen's Moosewood Cookbook. It makes a relatively dense, buttery cake with a subtly Indian…
A Bibliography of Grief
Wanting a Child. Edited and with an introduction by Jill Bialosky and Helen Schulman. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.A collection of stories about having (and not having) children.…
IKEA Kitchen Cabinets with Custom Doors from Scherrs
Update as of 10/2011 -- I'm about to launch into another kitchen project and Scherrs now makes things really easy -- you provide the IKEA box numbers and they take…
Protected: Le Grand David, Through a Girl’s Eyes
This year (2007) marks the 30th anniversary of what is officially called “Marco The Magi’s Production of ‘Le Grand David and his own Spectacular Magic Company,’” a show that is…
Loving and Leaving The Good Life
This is one of my favorite books at the moment. It's essentially an autobiography of Helen (and Scott) Nearing, famous before-their-time back-to-the-landers, vegetarians, and intellectual, and authors of Living the…
Thepla (Indian flat bread)
This recipe is adapted from an old New York Times Magazine recipe for Cabbage-Poblano flatbread and it's essentially what my (Indian) mother-in-law makes and calls "Thepla". Thepla (in its various…
Protected: Condo Conversion Resources (Somerville)
Here are some of the people I've worked with when doing condo conversions in Somerville. Tony Troiano, Attorney Work: 617 242 4400 Fax: 617 241 3888 E-Mail: atroiano@troianolawfirm.com One Thompson…
Floor Finishing/Refinishing
On the Somerville Moms email list, there was a lot of talk about floor refinishers and water-based products. I did a bunch of research, and found an excellent article on…