30 seconds of watching and listening butter melt into the jaggery milk toffee, which might have been nice ASMR, if it weren’t for the impatiently barking Ellie who really thought I should be getting her evening treats instead of wasting my time cooking…
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Melting in a whole stick of butter to the jaggery milk toffee (almost the last step).
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Adding cashews to the jaggery milk toffee.
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30 seconds of milk toffee bubbling. This is an unusual batch — I didn’t have enough white sugar, so I made up the difference with jaggery (which is similar to brown sugar); I wasn’t sure if it would turn out. It definitely looked somewhat different while cooking.
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Yesterday morning’s curry powder grinding. I couldn’t seem to get my iPhone to capture the colors correctly — it was all coming out much more cool and washed out than my eyes were seeing them. So I ended up trying the ‘warm vivid’ filter — and it’s a little TOO warm, but closer to reality
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Thirty seconds of toasting cumin seed. Adding the toasted methi seeds / fenugreek to the fennel, cumin seed, coriander. Curry leaves, starting to toast. That scent — there’s nothing like it. Curry leaves, partly toasted. All the toasted spices are in a big tray now, cooling off — if you try to grind them when
I was sort of stressed all day today. I think it’s mostly the theocracy post from this morning — I’ve been wanting to write it for weeks, but it took a while for my thoughts to percolate sufficiently, and then once I posted it, I had to fight through some anxiety about whether I’d said
I scooted myself down to the basement this morning, and Anand carried many things upstairs for me. I’m amused that he decided to build a tower of the sweet boxes.
Kevin made this batch of marshmallows (passion fruit, vanilla, and rose) entirely for me, so I’d have some ready for tomorrow’s Valentine’s market. I just sat on the couch and answered the occasional question.
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It’s so nice that Kevin can cook — I asked him yesterday if he’d make a Sri Lankan beef curry for me, and he did. He doesn’t even need a recipe at this point. It’s not exactly like mine or my mother’s, but close enough. Finished off the green beans from a few days ago,
