Srilatha Rajagopal

3 magical stories from the one and only @pleomorphic2.bsky.social. Deeply touching as always!
With unexpected lines like this:
“Mythili wonders what the opposite of orphan is – what you would call a mother without a baby”

Stop the presses! We're doing out first writerly event! With just over a month until subs open, we invite you to come #namjooning with us. We'll chat a bit, we'll write a bit, and we'll answer all your submission (and other) questions. Register now! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

And totally - bread making is most satisfying and healing.

Oooh bread! My daughter in law got me started on sourdough making. Refreshing my starter and waiting for it to be ready to make my second loaf!!

Do you make a lot of Greek food?

Awww thank you, Delphine. I love to eat therefore I cook and write about cooking and food 😀

Follow me on Instagram @rasaala for more recipes

coconut chutney: blend coconut, green chilies, a small piece of ginger, salt, Dalia/pottukadalai.

Heat ghee/oil. Splutter mustard seeds. Add cashew nuts, pepper-cumin powder and fry until cashews turn reddish gold. Add ginger, curry leaves.
Add cooked rice mash.
Mix everything together. Finish with a drizzle of ghee.
Serve with coconut chutney.

Ingredients:
Pressure-Cooked (12 minutes in instant pot) rice + mung dal (I used equal amounts of white basmati, barnyard millet, and
yellow mung dal)
Salt
To temper:
2 tbsp ghee/oil
Handful of cashew nuts
1 tbsp each pepper and cumin, coarse ground
Curry leaves
1 tbsp finely chopped ginger

Vennpongal with coconut chutney hits the spot on this cold January morning! Made with equal measures rice, barnyard millet and yellow mung dal. Recipe in comments.

Of course!!

Absolutely!!

“Note to self: carry a cane or pretend to faint when taking the bus.” A dose of unabashed caustic from @delgeo14.bsky.social @mrbullbull.bsky.social

I actually can think of someone who probably is like this. She’s the best!

National Flash Fiction Day Save the Date: we're celebrating the next National Flash Fiction Day on 14 June 2025!

We're excited to announce that the theme for our next anthology is SEASONS. We're thrilled to welcome Cheryl Markosky @cherylmarkosky.bsky.social as guest editor. Cheryl will be joining Karen Jones in reading the submissions. You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/news/

ON THE NOSTALGIA OF DRIED APRICOTS AND OTHER GARBAGE by Jeanann Verlee I am 41. Standing at the Formica counter of a roach-friendly Queens apartment five lifetimes ago, I crumble gorgonzola over flatbread dough, then stud it with gems of diced dried apricot and fresh thy...

today we have a terrific 350 word creative nonfiction story by Jeanann Verlee @jeaverlee.bsky.social !! it's about being married to a terrible person

xraylitmag.com/on-the-nosta...

Love it, Melissa!!

Stunning!

Anyone have insights on turning a cooking website into a printed book? Considering turning mine rasaala.com into a book.

Truth!!

Absolutely loved this! Love the way you showed the movement of time!!

Opinion | Enough To suggest we should yield even a little to Trump’s odious politics is unacceptable. Even if we did, it would never be enough.

For the @nytimes.com I wrote about how Enough is Enough with the incumbent president and his cabinet of folly and let’s stop coddling Trump voters and be real clear-eyed about what lies ahead. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

So she grieved for Marie and I mourned the cluster of cells with the abnormally high plasma protein-A count that could have been someone to love.
Horror, grief, love! Read @barlowadams.bsky.social in trampset pushcart nominated!

I remember this!! Congratulations and best wishes, Barlow! I hope it wins!

Looking forward !!

December is looking 🔥🔥🔥 with these themed submission calls!

I want your domestic oddities. Your odes to kitchen utensils, elegies for broken appliances, sonnets for your favourite coffee mug…fill my kitchen with goodness…I can’t wait to read your words!

Announcing the 2024 Winter Guest Calls for JAKE!🧵

I blocked and muted the muskrat on his own platform.

“Teach her early that if she isn’t bowed with pain and fatigue, then she isn’t working hard enough." Incredible piece on pain by the brilliant @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @epistemiclit.bsky.social