Woot! Our first GoodReads giveaway for A Feast of Serendib is live! (Over a hundred people have put in a request already, which is very cool. 🙂 ) Link to giveaway: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/303738-a-feast-of-serendib
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Kevin and I have been talking a lot lately about the best use of my time as a writer / cookbook author, whether it’s worth making and shipping sweets. I was talking to Chef Roel Estanilla at local Filipino pop-up pig & fire about some of these issues too — he makes these amazing ube cookies, and people
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Two things that just make me happy: – shipping out a new copy of Bodies in Motion, a book I published in 2005 — 15 years later, this book still has some legs. 🙂 I spent four years working hard on it, so it’s very pleasing to know that new readers are still discovering and hopefully enjoying
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Sigh — sometimes cooking experiments just fail, and it’s very sad. I HATE throwing food out, and usually I can salvage it *somehow*, but this just didn’t work. I was aiming for a mango cream ganache — mangoes and cream and chocolate, as a filling for molded chocolates. But the mangoes & cream combined with
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I think I’ve decided when I’m really pleased with a recipe, that’s when it deserves to get its own name. I tried adding another 1/2 c. of tamarind puree to my marshmallow recipe, and it’s just perfect now — that’s what it needed to get the fluffy height and soft pillowy goodness that you want
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Stephanie was setting up the Goodreads giveaway for Feast, and asked me if there was a secondary genre category for it beyond Cookbook, like Memoir or History. Honestly, it’s some of both, I think — I told her to add it to the memoir category. A friend just messaged me this morning, after picking up another
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Hey, Stephanie kindly set up a Goodreads giveaway for me for A Feast of Serendib, but I admit, I’m not entirely sure how this works, or how to best tell people about participating in it. But the plan is that we’ll be giving away 5 hardcover copies of Feast to Goodreads members in the U.S. (International shipping
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Potluck cooking. In theory, one should only cook one dish for a potluck, but how can you serve beef smoore without also serving rice? 🙂 We did cashews, dried cherries, and rose essence in the rice, along with veggie broth and a stick of butter, to make it rich and indulgent. I also pulled some jackfruit &
NOTE! If you missed yesterday’s sale, I’m going to go ahead and extend it ’til 5 p.m. today, because I realized it won’t really affect my ability to get orders out on time. As detailed below… Finishing up making sweets this morning — orders are mostly ready to be packaged up, though I need to
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Valentine’s / Galentine’s Flash Sale: $10 off most books, plus sweets! Place orders in comments here, will confirm, then PM to arrange payment details via PayPal or Venmo. Sale ends @ midnight tonight, though sweets may run out sooner. Shipping & handling will be calculated on receiving order — usually $5-$8 within the U.S. SWEETS:
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