with Mary Anne Mohanraj
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…
Melting in a whole stick of butter to the jaggery milk toffee (almost the last step).
Adding cashews to the jaggery milk toffee.
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.
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.
Last order shipped today (more will go out tomorrow, I want to do a little more polishing work on a few of the resin pieces first) — two tea towels, a salvia resin pendant, and lots of milk toffee. Excellent.
Milk toffee or passionfruit marshmallows? So hard to choose! Why choose? Get both! Also some scarves and a cookbook. I don’t know if this is being distributed to multiple people, or all for one lucky person. Both options are good.
Reading Wild Cards superhero stories in Joker Moon will be sweeter accompanied by passionfruit marshmallows dipped in dark chocolate…
Milk toffee and a paperweight, in the mail. Will someone nibble on the milk toffee while contemplating the paperweight? Perhaps! I like to speculate about the orders that go out the door….