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

Views: mine. Yes, I'm greedy that way.
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
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
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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

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November 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I decided, since the cats were getting supper, I should get a snack.

#InMyKitchen #Baking #Cake #Food
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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
Done! Thinking I need to taste test soon….

#InMyKitchen #Baking #Cake #Food
November 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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
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/...
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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...
November 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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
November 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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
When you’re recipe testing and have leftover sanding sugars, they go into the next coffee. Unicorn coffee, here I come.
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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.
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Look at what arrived! I ordered it from the UK when that...person...tried to sue Yasmin for using the word "sabzi."
November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Et Voilà...slow-cooked red curry lamb shoulder.

So very good.

#InMyKitchen #HomeCooking #Foodsky
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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
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
November 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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
A behind the scenes look at Rufus helping me prepare for this morning's broadcast! He's such a good coach.

#Catsky
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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
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
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)
November 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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
November 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Current makeshift office. The view from my window.

#WellingtonCounty
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM