Today is Onam, the harvest festival celebrated by the Malayalees who are originally from Kerala, India. My bestie as a Malayalee, decided to challenge herself to cooking at least 21 dishes as is the custom.

Mum tailored all our clothes when I was younger. She’d buy a bale of the same material, then she’d sew for all the females in the family but we’d each get a design of our choice. She did this until she