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Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁
@cardamomaddict.bsky.social
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food columnist for CBC-KW | freelancer elsewhere | Canadian | promiscuous eater | effervescent | cat pillow | equal opportunity buttertartist and apple fritterian with an art history degree.

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C is for Cookie! That's good enough for me!

If you missed Friday's column, complete with tips and tricks to help you bake better cookies, you can listen to it here!

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Cardamummy: what are you making for supper?
Me: I wanted to make bean thoren, but I'm out of coconut
C: What? How do you not have coconut?
M: I ran out.
C: YOU ATE IT.

The sins of my younger self still hang heavy over me.

Here are the coconut-less beans.

#InMyKitchen #HomeCooking
A pan of cooked green beans.
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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It's been a week of hithering and thithering, and I forgot to post the listen later for my column on cuisines (Danish, S African, Uyghur, Yemeni) that are only found (locally) in one spot each.

#Food #Restaurants #WaterlooRegion #WellingtonCounty #PerthCounty #Foodsky

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
November 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Christmas pudding steaming and the water buffalo is peralan-ing.

They even cut up the bones for me, so I could get the marrow :D

So tasty :)

#InMyKitchen #HomeCooking #KeralaFood
Meat Peralan made with water buffalo in the cooking pot.
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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I decided, since the cats were getting supper, I should get a snack.

#InMyKitchen #Baking #Cake #Food
A slice of lime-blueberry yoghurt cake. The berries have aligned in two rows. IDK. My kitchen was in a mood.
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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This post showed up in my FB feed hours after I shared my Cookies 101 food column :)

And yes, Cookie, I will share my cookies with you 🥰 🍪🍪
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Done! Thinking I need to taste test soon….

#InMyKitchen #Baking #Cake #Food
My blueberry-lime yoghurt loaf cake, out of the oven and all golden topped.
November 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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A spot of early evening baking at Casa de Cardamom. Blueberry-lime yoghurt loaf cake.

Adapted this recipe: emmaduckworthbakes.com/french-yogur...

#InMyKitchen #Baking #Cake #Food
November 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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We're in cookie season! I didn't crumble under the pressure: talked to Conestoga's baking & culinary arts prof, Sabine Heinrich-Kumar for tips to help us home bakers turn out chewy, melty, snappy treats

Plus, there's a recipe!

#Baking #Cookies #Recipes #Foodsky

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Sabine Heinrich-Kumar, left, is a professor at Conestoga College’s baking and pastry arts management program. She's standing here with Thị Đan Thùy Nguyễn -- they are holding a box of Dan's competition-winning vegan mooncakes. Call-it-as-you-flavour-it icebox sables, done four ways: lime, matcha-sesame seed, vanilla-almond, and toffee chip Call-it-as-you-flavour-it icebox sables, done different ways, near a snowy window.
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Finally starting on the Christmas pudding. Will let the fruit sit until Sunday, I think.

Using @nigella.bsky.social’s Ultimate Christmas Pudding recipe.

#InMyKitchen #FoodSky #ChristmasIsComing

www.nigella.com/recipes/ulti...
A ceramic bowl with snipped dried fruit and sherry
November 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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The drive to and from the studio this morning weren't great. Happy I'm staying in.

3 pics:

Nigel, coaching my practice read through (LOTS OF STUMBLES...maybe if is paw weren't on the screen)!

Cookies from today's column!

Post-column breakfast from Matter of Taste!

#Cats #Cookies #FoodSky
Nigel, my fluffy tangerine kitty, with his paw on my ipad. The script is talking about the issues using volume to measure flour--Nigel is equally unimpressed with such sloppy measuring, as he looks away. Columns of cookies! Tomorrow's article includes the recipe for icebox sables. I recipe tested them making a few variations, incl matcha-sesame seed, Skor, vanilla-almond, and lime-coconut. I don't recall which pastry this is, but it's savoury and creamy with sesame seeds.
November 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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A sneak peek at tomorrow's column -- it would be crumby if you missed it!

Tomorrow at 7:40 am EST (GMT-5)

89.1 FM in Waterloo Region, Guelph, & Wellington County

Or online: buff.ly/2TEPmBp (set region to Kitchener-Waterloo)

📸 Jennifer Pallian
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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When you’re recipe testing and have leftover sanding sugars, they go into the next coffee. Unicorn coffee, here I come.
a plate with pink, blue and purple sanding sugars.
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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This is the latest I've cleaned up my front garden. My strawberry plant is still fruiting and this whatever it is is budding. Decided to see if I can make them last through the winter and potted them. My plants are fighters.
Something. I don't know what, with a pink bud. Let's see if it lives! My little strawberry plant. There's a white berry forming (there's a teeny one elsewhere on the plant. Let's see what happens.
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Look at what arrived! I ordered it from the UK when that...person...tried to sue Yasmin for using the word "sabzi."
The joyful UK cover of Sabzi.
November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Et Voilà...slow-cooked red curry lamb shoulder.

So very good.

#InMyKitchen #HomeCooking #Foodsky
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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An hour ago (with another 3.5 to go)..this beauty went into the oven. Adapting Nagy's slow-cooked Massaman lamb shoulder.

The aromas are amazing now...they'll just get better.

And no: No, I'm not good at gauging volumes. Got it into the oven without spilling, though!

#InMyKitchen
November 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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A memory came up that made me smile

13yrs ago today, I looked over at the loveseat and saw this; two minutes later, I saw the same scene, but roles were reversed (I took photos of both, but this one is still retrievable).

Caption was "Some days I'm Rufus. Some days I'm Nigel"

#Caturday #Cats
A not great pic of my then 6mo kittens wrasslin; on the loveseat. In this one. Rufus, my B&W fuzzy kitty has pinned Nigel, his fluffy tangerine littermate and is busy chewing on him. Nigel is not impressed.
November 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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As a food culture writer, I LOVE this sort of column: shining a light on food cultures often left out of the mainstream spotlight. And (of course trying new-to-me foods)

Here's my column about cuisines that aren’t found elsewhere in the area.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#FoodSky #Restaurants
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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A behind the scenes look at Rufus helping me prepare for this morning's broadcast! He's such a good coach.

#Catsky
A fuzzy black and white cat has inserted himself under my iPad and is wriggling around in happiness. The iPad has my scrip and he's also sitting on the paper back-up.
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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A sneak peek at tomorrow's column!

Tomorrow at 7:40 am EST (GMT-5)

89.1 FM in Waterloo Region, Guelph, & Wellington County

Or online: buff.ly/2TEPmBp (set region to Kitchener-Waterloo)
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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ICYMI, last week's food column was about local indy food businesses collaborating to come up with 4 delicious ice creams! Really love how this is happening and hope to see more in other areas of our food space 😊

#Foodsky #WaterlooRegion #IceCream

You can listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

(am counting this as a meme because I've seen it several times over the past year or so, and I saved it last week)
“The secret of The Muppets is they’re not very good at what they do. Kermit’s not a great host, Fozzie’s not a good comedian, Miss Piggy’s not a great singer... Like, none of them are actually good at it, but they fucking love it. And they’re like a family, and they like putting on the show. And they have joy. And because of the joy, it doesn’t matter that they’re not good at it. And that’s like what we should all be. Muppets.” -Brett Goldstein
November 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Rufus has been looking at me like this, since I returned home, after a 14 hr day.

Nigel, on the other hand, has been purring and mrrping at me, and occasionally snoofling my hair.

#cats
A sad/worried faced dark-eyed Rufus.
November 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Current makeshift office. The view from my window.

#WellingtonCounty
A gravel road winds throgh a wooded area as a large tree with red, gold, and green leaves (mostly gold) keeps watch. The hanging lamp’s reflection is in the window, on the tree.
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM