
Blanket Coat
So cold today that I ended up using my coat as a blanket when trying to work in my office on campus….
Dark roasted curry powder, a fine attention to the balance of salty-sour-sweet, wholesome red rice and toasted curry leaves, plenty of coconut milk and chili heat. These are the flavors of Sri Lanka.
In Vegan Serendib, novelist and post-colonial academic Mary Anne Mohanraj introduces her mother’s cooking and her own American adaptations, providing an introduction to Sri Lankan American vegan cooking that is straightforward enough for a beginner, yet nuanced enough to capture the unique flavors of Sri Lankan cuisine.
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So cold today that I ended up using my coat as a blanket when trying to work in my office on campus….
Fascinating how the color changed on this coleus when it was pressed, bright pink to purple. Both pretty.
Paperwhites are fragile! It’s tricky to press them; I’m not sure I’ll ever get one that’s perfectly formed on pressing. But I don’t really mind — they sort of remind me of Brian Froud’s pressed fairies. Love how translucent some of the petals get.
Slightly more complex rose paperweights, with gold leaf and a sort of thread-y white botanical added to the roses and opalescent glitter. I like the sense of motion the threads give, and I continue to enjoy the roses protruding (escaping?) from the resin…
Mostly offline today, had a nice TV + crafting + cooking day. Made a great chicken curry, that will be a good accompaniment to the various vegan dishes I’ll be making this week (cabbage mallung or green bean curry tomorrow, I think, if you have a preference for what comes
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