It’s fall so, by popular request, I’m not only making Milky Way Cake for my family, I’m posting the recipe once again. When I first posted this recipe in October 2009, I giggled to myself when I overheard people shopping for ingredients in Stop & Shop later in the week (“I got this recipe off…
Do you have a spare million or so and a desire to own a historic inn? Would you mind sharing space with a friendly ghost? The Grafton Inn, a staple on Grafton Common since 1805, is on the market for $925,000. John Pardee has owned the inn since 2000, taking a two year hiatus from…
Wanna hear something wicked twisted? There’s a new bakery in town. All right, the above paragraph makes sense in context: the new bakery, Wicked Twisted Pretzels, specializes in soft pretzels. “My brother and I love great soft pretzels and couldn’t find one around here that we liked, so we decided to start making them ourselves…
Somewhere, in a top secret vault in the Grafton Public Schools, there is a book of great power. I imagine it’s dusty, thick and bristling with bookmarks and Post-It notes. “Never fails!” reads one note, topped with a smiley face. “You won’t believe the look on their faces! LOL!” reads another. If Post-Its could laugh,…
It’s possible that I may crash in the middle of writing this post, because I’ve been up since 4 a.m. Why? We’re launching TheDailyWestborough.com and TheDailyHolden.com on Monday so I basically shot awake early and said “yeah, let’s just get to work.” But that’s not the point of this posting. The point of this posting…
Conversations in the car with the kids this afternoon: My daughter decided to buy lunch today, something which she generally does a couple times a month. The school lunch menu said rotini. At school, they were told the menu had changed and they could, instead, have “breakfast for lunch,” which could be a corn muffin,…
Ah, fall! That wonderful time of year when the leaves change color, we reap the bounty of the final harvest, we… Oh the heck with it. I’m not writing that kind of post. This post, my friends, is an apology of sorts. See, I had a full week of blogging planned and somehow, I seemed…
I know, I know, the biggest news story out of the State House this week has been the battle over whether or not the governor should be allowed to appoint an interim senator to replace the late Edward Kennedy (and he did today: longtime Kennedy associate Paul Kirk), and our state rep, George Peterson, has…
I’m making my first lasagna of the season — rainy day, fall weather coming together with a burst of cooking energy — and got to thinking about last year’s first lasagna, which brought about this blog entry last year on “Working… With Kids.” I figure it’s just sitting there, out in the Internet ether, so…
I had one of those cravings today. You know the kind. It required the immediate use of a Fryolator and a complete disregard for calories. I needed onion rings. Luckily it’s Friday, the day when the kids are off from camp, and we live in Grafton, home of Art Bradish Snack Bar. Would you believe…
Greater Grafton 