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Been sick the last two days, v. annoying, but feeling mostly better now and able to do stuff. Plans for the day: – grind freshly-roasted spices, pack up curry powder, and ship orders (reminder that you can order signed cookbooks and curry powder from my online shop: www.serendibshop.com, and we’re running a Winter Holiday Sale, so everything in there is 20% off until 12/21!) – finish sewing the custom order of adult size Elephant March
I got several lovely hostess gifts (never expected, but always appreciated) for our holiday party yesterday, and I wanted to shout out one from a local business, Olive & Well — it was a lovely pairing of butternut squash seed oil and maple balsamic vinegar, but also included five different recipes that used these ingredients. So smart!
Holiday party — I was so busy talking to people that I didn’t take any pictures of my guests during the party, which is a shame! Especially because we had a really nice crowd — about 50-60 people, I think, with a great mix of old friends from college, long-time friends, new friends and colleagues, adorable little children, grad students and undergrad students of mine, a bunch of Kavi’s high school friends, and even a
Holiday party: • greenery hung, with the help of Gabriella and one of my students and his partner (cedar garlands from the Oak Park Conservatory Winter Greens market make my old Victorian feel very Victorian Christmas somehow) • trifle (this year’s was pear, blackberry, strawberry, with ladyfinger cookies, Bird’s custard, a thin drizzling of ginger jam and a smidge of lemon curd, whipped lightly sweetened cream, and a topping of pomegranate seeds — no sherry
Eleven seconds of simmering brinjal moju (eggplant pickle).
Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of A Feast of Serendib, Bodies in Motion, The Stars Change, and twelve other titles. Other recent publications include stories for George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series, Perennial: A Garden Romance (Tincture), stories at Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Lightspeed, and an essay in Roxane Gay’s Unruly Bodies.
Mohanraj founded Hugo-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning speculative literature magazine Strange Horizons, and serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (speclit.org). She is Clinical Associate Professor of fiction and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. www.maryannemohanraj.com
