Food and Recipes

Serendib Kitchen contest

CONTEST! We have actually made enough progress on A Feast of Serendib Kickstarter fulfillment orders that I can see through the stacks to the other side! I might actually be able to use my dining table for board gaming tomorrow. Very exciting. So in honor of that, I’m holding a little contest. Here are the

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Current favorite sandwich

Current favorite sandwich (‘favorite’ changes regularly, but I’m a little stuck on these right now) — open faced on multigrain toast, with Harry & David sesame honey mustard, beautiful tomatoes on the vine, and aged white cheddar. Mmm….I’m going to go make another one right now. What’s your current favorite sandwich? (Is a wrap a

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Pork stew, by Kevin

It’s really very nice that when I fall on the couch and don’t move for hours, Kevin is perfectly capable of making us a nice pork stew for dinner (with chickpeas, cherries, carrots). Our spicing is slightly different, but I will gladly take it. Mmm…

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Spiced chocolates

Spiced chocolates. Nothing fancy here — melt some dark chocolate chips at half power in the microwave, stir in cinnamon, cloves, and fresh-grated nutmeg (would’ve added ground cardamom if I had any on hand), pour into molds and leave in fridge to set. Definitely faster and much less labor-intensive than making them into individual truffles,

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Grilled shrimp spread

This was ALMOST very frustrating. I grilled these beautiful jumbo shrimp with chili-salt-lime, thinking I’d make a sort of mango-shrimp salad with them. The shrimp themselves were fabulous; I ate three of them straight off the grill pan because I just couldn’t resist. But when I chopped them up and combined them with chopped mango,

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Ginger-Garlic Chicken Salad

This ginger-garlic chicken salad was the biggest success of the bagel experiments — I would totally serve this either on a bagel (it was great on sesame) or wrapped in lettuce. Or honestly, just straight up on its own, or in a sandwich with a hearty French bread, etc…. Ginger-Garlic Chicken Salad, with Cashews and

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