Food and Recipes

Having fun prepping for the little Daly Bagel benefit brunch tomorrow. Amanda Daly and I are doing a little fusion bagel + Sri Lankan brunch (10-12 on Sunday), and I’ve been working on the menu. (Ticket link in comments — a few more spots available, until midnight tonight. $60 each, and you’ll be helping open up Amanda’s […]

Cinnamon-Tossed Mulled Apple Cider Marshmallows Kavya has a new favorite marshmallow! For a long time, passionfruit marshmallows topped her list, but yesterday, they were unseated unceremoniously by the flavor of the season. 🙂 (I like these a lot, but passionfruit is still the queen of my heart.) 1 c. apple cider 1 stick cinnamon 6 cloves

What if you want to try Sri Lankan food, but are allergic to coconut? At some point when I have free time (hah), I’d love to create a section of the Serendib Kitchen website that suggested adaptations. (Stephanie, add to queue?) Vegetarian / vegan, allergies, low-carb / keto, etc. For example, yesterday I was cooking

Sigh. Got lots done, but did not finish the Wild Cards story. I *hate* asking for another extension, but I have no choice. BAH, HUMBUG. Super cranky about that, esp. as the next few days are busy enough with teaching and meetings that I probably can’t get back to it until Friday. On the plus

I’ve been watching GBBO: Masterclass, and one thing I’ve noticed is that Mary says that things are ‘easy’ really often. So much of teaching everyday cooking is about reducing people’s anxiety about it. I’m still startled by how many people don’t cook at all; they assume that it’s going to be hard, time-consuming, etc. There

I’ll have to make this again so I can write it up into a proper recipe, but here are the marshmallow-rocky road experiments. I made three different varieties; the clear favorite was the ruby chocolate with passionfruit marshmallows and dried mango. Mmmm….so good! I served these at the Feast packing party, and they were quickly

Even though I’m light-headed and sick (just a bad cold, I think, will hopefully be back to normal tomorrow), there’s a little voice in the back of my head singing, “They liked my book! They liked my book!” That’s going to carry me for quite a while, I think, and beat back the imposter syndrome.

Kevin texted me on the plane to let me know that he wasn’t feeling great, and was ordering takeout for dinner, did I want anything to be there when I got home? Thai green curry chicken and steamed shumai, please, two of my favorite comfort foods. Do you get into this situation with takeout food,

Feast packing party! I highly recommend feeding your friends and having them help pack if you are trying to indie publish your first book. Like a barn raising! It was such a big pile of books and sheets of paper, and I hadn’t even finished grinding the hand-roasted spices for the curry powder packets. I