Little molded milk chocolates for the top two tiers of the Autumn Wonderland treat boxes. Time-consuming to make, but I like the results on the leaf, hedgehog, and acorn molds. The hedgehog and acorn would make adorable cupcake toppers too, I think. The twig broke every single time I tried to get chocolate out, bah, […]
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Milk toffee for the flash sale. Yumyum. I’ve finally figured out how to make it come out right with a different pot (because my old one died). Candy-making = fussy!
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One of the Kickstarter reward tiers involved a set of 3 chutneys, sambols, pickles, that kind of thing. Clearly seeni (sweet onion) sambol had to be one of them, and green tomato chutney was a lovely way to use up the last of the summer’s tomatoes. But what to do for the third choice? So
I’m not sure why I thought having the last of the Kickstarter orders, the Shopify orders that have come in recently, the Patreon orders, AND all the flash sale orders get packed and shipped this week was a good idea, but apparently I thought it would be efficient or something? Pictured, a tiny percentage of
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A fair bit of sewing this morning — some of the Kickstarter pre-orders and Shopify orders came with tea towels, like my “Tamil Vowels” tea towel. It was a lot of fun designing this one, drawing all the letters in different styles; I think it’d be really fun in a kitchen with small children, especially
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This is exciting! Food Network included my cookbook, Vegan Serendib, on a list of Top Ten Vegan Cookbooks of 2022! “Author, novelist and post-colonial academic Mary Anne Mohanraj’s latest cookbook reads like a vegan love letter to her native Sri Lanka and its diaspora. She distills thousands of years of vegetarian and vegan culinary traditions
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Poor Stephanie is trying to get out my cookbook orders on a dining table that’s just covered in ornaments. Oops. We’ll get a tree today or tomorrow, and then decorate over the weekend, so by Monday, the table should be clear again. She seems to think she can manage. Pictured here, a LOT of curry
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Making the seeni sambol (my favorite condiment in the world). One of the Kickstarter tiers included three chutneys / sambols, so I’m making those now. I made a green tomato chutney already, and today is seeni sambol (so many onions!), and I’m not sure what I’ll do for the third. Must ponder. (It’s too late
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Toasting seeds for curry powder — before & after. We’re hoping to get the rest of the Kickstarter cookbooks out by Wednesday, fingers crossed, and I needed to make more curry powder… Stephanie is coming by shortly; our main goal for this morning is to get the rest of the international orders out the door,
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