Fritillaries in Snow
Fritillaries in snow.
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Lupine and Hyacinth in Snow
Lupine and hyacinth in snow. (The lupine was recently planted from the garden store — I think it wouldn’t normally be this far along in mid-April. My lupine from last year is just leaves still…)
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Spacecats Suggest
On a snowy day like today, my #spacecats suggest sleeping in if you can. Aryabhata and Sripati are big fans of sleeping. I’ve already told the kids that I’m taking it easy today, and they can too — if they do some schoolwork, great, but if not, I don’t really care. Okay, I didn’t phrase it that
Not Getting Out of Bed
I woke up, looked out the window to this, and then firmly decided I wasn’t getting out of bed anytime soon. Cue 45 minutes of scrolling through Facebook on my phone instead… Thankfully, most of the garden should actually survive this kind fluffy insulating snow without too much trouble, as long as it doesn’t go
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Oddly Tired
I am oddly tired today, dear readers, and so I am not actually writing up a recipe for traditional Sri Lankan New Year’s food: milk rice and lunamiris sambol, plus a nice salmon curry. Maybe I’ll come back tomorrow and post recipes, though if you google, you’ll find many that are basically identical — they
Doing My Part for USPS
Doing my part for USPS, shipping a dozen more copies of Feast out into the world; it makes me so happy thinking of people cooking from my cookbook, especially today, on Sri Lankan New Year. Happy New Year, folks. I’ll make some kiri bath and lunumiris sambol later. It feels strange not throwing a big
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It Looks Magical!
Kavi came down and said, “I don’t know what that is, but it looks MAGICAL!” That’s the goal, kiddo. Rose & passionfruit bath salts, as I pack up the treat boxes. This morning I finished sewing the masks for them, made up the bath salts, sealed and addressed the boxes, and discovered that I’d completely