The food can be very good especially the vegetable dishes and anything involving the house-made paneer, the pressed Indian curd cheese that is nicely soft and springy here. Moksha Indian Fusion Cuisine is an indicator of the welcome changes that are transforming the city's newest far-flung suburbs from endless miles of chain restaurants to richer mixes of ethnic and independently owned spots. Its fusion moniker is something of a misnomer: Aside from a few strained and none-too-successful...

It can also be used to make gravy for a hot turkey sandwich or a turkey stew (I simmer the vegetable chunks in broth, toss in diced roasted turkey at the end just to get it hot and thicken with flour or cornstarch) For me, Friday after Thanksgiving is the perfect time to let a pot of turkey pieces-parts, leftover gravy and some aromatic vegetables (carrots, celery and onion) gently simmer away. But instead of using calorie- and fat-packed mayonnaise on your sandwich, mix together leftover...

At one point, the Galvans also expanded into a second location in the old Heironimus building downtown, but a faulty air conditioning system forced them to move out in June 2002. Galvan blames slow business and unsophisticated palates for the restaurant's demise after nine years in various locations around Roanoke. Even after remembering that he hates peas, panicking and picking every one out of the filling, I still had the pie in the oven and baking before my doorbell rang. But business...

NEW YORK - Lead on toys was bad enough, but last week's recall of a toy tainted with a date rape drug threatens to turn into a lump of coal for toy retailers just as the key holiday selling season gets started. The recall of Aqua Dots comes just as the industry was starting to see shoppers return to toy stores after summer's high-profile recalls of more than 21 million Chinese-made toys with high levels of lead or dangerous magnets. But she reasoned, what could be worse than them...

And many in both camps are quite fond of a smaller bird that bridges the great turkey divide, one that glows like a jewel in candlelight and can be stuffed with candy, cranberries and soup. Depression glass dinnerware, hurricane lamps, lamp shades, perfume bottles, cigarette lighters, even lenses for automobile headlights all rolled out of the Smith factory. But making sense of it all was a challenge, partly because Smith only occasionally gave its products an identifying mark (since the...