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 him. This recipe comes from my mother, and is…
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 advances. Engaging, beautifully edited, and fact-filled, this documentary reminds us…
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 bent. The cake is not as dark as pictured. 3/4…
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. A lot of powerful stories. Rinpoche, Sogyal. The Tibetan Book…
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 it from there. I recently completed a kitchen renovation in…
Protected: Le Grand David, Through a Girl’s Eyes
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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 Good Life. Helen and Scott went “back to the land”…
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 forms) is an excellent savory bread that travels very well.…
Protected: Condo Conversion Resources (Somerville)
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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 oil-based vs. water-based floor finishing products at hardwoodinstaller.com. Their message…