Weekend Recs #40: Laundryfluencing, Sweet Treats, and Princess Kate
You’re currently a free subscriber to Downtime. Consider upgrading to get every newsletter plus other perks—I send a few each month to paid subscribers only. Subscriptions are what allow me to prioritize and write this. No pressure either way -thanks for reading! Weekend Recs #40: Laundryfluencing, Sweet Treats, and Princess KateFeaturing a Q&A with the author of SUGARCANE, Arlyn Osborne.This is the Friday post, a weekly roundup of recommendations and delightful distractions. If the email cuts off, you can view it on the web here.Happy Friday! After a few blustery days, the weather is finally turning here in D.C., and spring is unofficially springing. 💐 I’ve got another treat for readers today. As you saw last week, we’re featuring this season’s new cookbooks we’re excited about in the newsletter. Today, we have a Q&A with Arlyn Osborne, author of the new cookbook Sugarcane: Sweet Recipes from My Half-Filipino Kitchen. Arlyn has generously shared two delicious recipe excerpts, both of which are available for paid subscribers below (thank you, Arlyn!). Lastly, before we get into it, I’m excited to choose our next book club pick! Which book should we read? I’m excited for these… April Book Club Poll
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P.S. Thanks to everyone who affirmed my love for Masters of the Air. I’m so happy to have found fellow Airheads (?) here. It’s the end of the road (runway?) for us tonight. ✈ What inspired this book? “Sugarcane is inspired by the concept of being in two places at once—what does it look like, feel like, taste like—and how our identities are largely made up of a bunch of little experiences. These recipes merge two worlds. It's fun, but also meaningful.” How do you hope readers will feel while they cook from it? “For some, I hope Sugarcane motivates them to try new flavors and ingredients. For others, I hope it brings them back to their childhood, homeland, or a sentimental pastime. But no matter where they come from or who they are, I do hope that everyone can see a little part of themselves in this book.” What does your downtime look like these days/what are you loving in your downtime recently? “I love interior design. And I just moved into a new apartment, so lately, much of my downtime is consumed by working out this fresh blank canvas—finding inspiration, seeing how the space lives, mixing textures and colors like I do with cooking. It's a puzzle. I love it. As for reorg, I'm in the process of relocating the washer/dryer unit to a gross little utility closet (where it originally was before I moved in) so I can use the nicer closet (conveniently next to my kitchen) as extra pantry + kitchen equipment storage (I have a lot of equipment!).” You can purchase Sugarcane: Sweet Recipes From My Half-Filipino Kitchen via Bookshop, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, or a local bookstore like this one. You can follow Arlyn on Instagram. Recipe: Fruit Salad PieDELIGHTFUL. Fruit Salad Pie. (Photography by Linda Xiao) “Fruit salad made a regular appearance in my household growing up, not least because it requires no actual cooking or even a knife. All of the fruit, which is canned, is simply tossed with sweetened condensed milk and folded with Cool Whip. My version reconfigures what is essentially a fruit-and-cream salad into a fruit-and-cream pie, set within a crispy honey graham cracker crust.” —Arlyn INGREDIENTS 1¾ cups (175 g) finely ground graham cracker crumbs PREPARATION (continued after paywall) Paid supporters of Downtime can access the full recipe + PDFs for this recipe AND Arlyn’s Ube Milk Crinkles cookies (!!) after the jump. Subscribe for $5/month if you’d like to join in for these and other perks.Subscribe to Downtime to read the rest.Become a paying subscriber of Downtime to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. A subscription gets you:
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