Vegan Serendib in Food Network’s Top Ten Vegan Cookbooks of 2022

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 into a vibrant tome of more than 108 recipes. The dishes are geared toward exploring the vast riches of Sri Lankan vegan cuisine through both her mother’s cooking and her own American adaptations. Start with the master recipe for Sri Lankan curry powder, which underscores one of the signatures of Sri Lankan cooking — dark roasted spices — and your curry dishes will be all the better for it. We’re particularly excited to try Kaliya Kari, an eggplant, plantain and potato curry, as well as Palakkai Kari, a green jackfruit curry that Mohanraj suggests pairing with kale sambol, pickled beet salad, and rice for a nourishing weeknight supper.”

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A LOT of Curry Powder

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 powder. She came in, looked at what I’d packaged up, shook her head dubiously, and said she thought we’d need more. Roger, wilco — guess I know what else I’m doing over the weekend. 🙂

My Favorite Condiment in the World

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 to get in on this action, but of course, if you have one of the cookbooks, you can make your own…)

Toasting Seeds for Curry Powder

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, so they arrive in time for the holidays.