Do you have writer friends? Here’s something that I think isn’t widely understood outside the writing community: When a book launches, it’s the culmination often of years of work. Sometimes years and years. It’s as if your friend releasing a book is launching a small business, or finishing grad school. And what’s kind of wacky […]
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The flavor of the dragonfruit comes through more strongly in marshmallows than in chocolate, so it’s a little startling if you’re not used to that flavor! Honestly, I will pick passionfruit over dragonfruit any day. But that said, it’s interesting and fruity, I’ll happily eat a few in a row, and if you’re looking to
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I was so happy eating Roshani‘s salmon curry last night — I was exhausted and just couldn’t cope with cooking anything. I had rice in the fridge, and that was all I needed. And then I finished it off for breakfast today (I almost ate it all last night, because it was so good, even though
Spent a few minutes this morning on the subscription boxes for Patreon. I’m pretty sure I can fit two chocolate bars, one set of sweets in a box, one chapstick, one little bag of bath salts, one little bag of curry powder, and a few postcards in there. Maybe a poem too, and/or a little
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FINAL LAUNCH WEEK FEAST OF SERENDIB GIVEAWAY: WORLDWIDE EBOOK EDITION (PLUS A HARDCOVER) Okay, folks. So I meant to run giveaways on Sunday & Monday, but launch week is super-chaotic and the e-mails have been fast and furious, so I didn’t. For the sake of my sanity, let’s just say we’re doing one more monster
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The new GoodReads giveaway (for 5 gorgeous print hardcovers of A Feast of Serendib) is live! US & Canada folks are encouraged to enter! (We’d do it worldwide, but that doesn’t seem to be an option for GoodReads right now…) https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/304570-a-feast-of-serendib
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So, I think I’m ready to talk a little about this new project that crystallized last week. (Photo of dragonfruit chocolate bars ‘crystallized’ for inspiration.) There are multiple elements coming together in this, things I’ve been working on and thinking about for a long time. I’m still not positive of what the final shape
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Last curry bun experiment from Bite Nite. I ended up serving the regular curry buns (previous three posts) on a bed of kale sambol, which was beautiful and delicious and good. I’d do that again. But as I was making them, I found myself wondering whether I could just add some kale sambol inside the
For the jackfruit curry buns, I sprinkled them with hemp seed. I’ve never used hemp seed before, but I hear it’s good for you? The exciting part of this, though, were the chickpeas. When I asked around, it seemed like jackfruit buns are a thing in Sri Lanka, and also jackfruit and potato buns. But
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I definitely need help if I’m going to be doing more production cooking — for Bite Nite, we made several hundred curry buns to give out (all of which went that night! and fast!), and even though we used pre-made dough, I was pretty tired by the end of the cooking, even with Kevin‘s help. It
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