Lots of posting this morning, but now I’m going to turn off FB for a while and try to write. I leave you with a one-pot dish — take my Sri Lankan ginger-garlic chicken, cook it most of the way, add 1-2 cups of water, bring to a boil, dump in a bunch of leftover […]
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I put on a new podcast, the Bon Apetit one, which I’ve been meaning to check out, but it turned out that the most recent episode, #275, was from June 3. It was a little shocking and more than a little sad, listening to Bon Apetit earnestly trying to do better by black restauranteurs in
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Cookbook giveaway! A while back, a few kind donors generously bought copies of my cookbook so that I could give them away to folks for whom it might not be manageable, budget-wise. In this difficult time, I know a lot of people are experiencing financial challenges, and maybe a Sri Lankan cookbook might brighten their
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This is another swing-and-a-miss. I like my chocolate-spiced cookies; the hint of cayenne brings out the chocolate beautifully, and the dough takes embossing well, letting me have fun with decorating. But they’re a little plain, and they seemed to be crying out to become sandwich cookies. I could’ve gone with an Oreo-type filling, which honestly
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Hm. I’m going to call this recipe a qualified success. I went looking for lemon bars with cashew and coconut, because I thought that might be nice, and I found this recipe, which I think might actually be gluten-free, as the entire base is just cashew, coconut, honey, coconut oil, vanilla, and salt. That part
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A journalist is writing a piece on my cookbook for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which is lovely, and she sent me a fact-checking query about how long I worked on the cookbook, so I went to go look at my blog to confirm that I spent a summer developing recipes, and wow, my memory is terrible.
I’m not going to write up a recipe for these, because I pretty much just used The Kitchn’s recipe for the madeleines themselves — first time making them, wanted something reliable. I didn’t have lemons, so I used lime zest instead, and used Baker’s Joy to spray the pans instead of making a melted butter+flour
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Started working towards the September Patreon treat boxes. (Reminder — I only offer a limited number of these, so there’s only, um, 8 of 25 spots left? I think so. $10 / month for a box once a quarter.) This is a nice, simple chocolate combo I’m enjoying — semi-sweet chocolate with goji berries and
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You know what’s even better than buying a mask? Or buying a cookbook? Buying a mask AND a cookbook. Hope someone is thrilled when their order arrives.
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Misc. treats from yesterday — putting together a birthday present for a Sri Lankan writer friend to send out to one of HER friends. There’s a few more goodies in the box — more sweets, some handmade soaps, etc. and so on…
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