Serendib Kitchen

A Mad Rush

It was a little bit of a mad rush getting ready to leave town for ICFA — I was trying to grade a bunch of student papers (done!), get all the winter Patreon boxes out the door (done!), and make and photograph stringhopper (idiyappam) biryani (done, in the end, but with additional drama!) The stringhopper

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Hard to Go Wrong

Finished up the higher tier treat boxes yesterday and shipped them out. Will take a break from production for a month or so, then start working on the spring boxes. Also might take a break from eating sweets for a month too? We’ll see. What do you do with extra bits of milk toffee and

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Garden Log 3/12/22

Working on the seedlings this morning — I’m really excited about the Thai sweet basil and the lemongrass. I’ve grown Thai basil before, but usually I’m hunting for it in nurseries when the small plants come out, and some years, I can’t find it, which is very frustrating, because Thai cuisine is one of my

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Halibut Sothi

Poor Stephanie has been waiting very patiently for me to get her ONE last decent photo of a dish so we can start the publicity process for Vegan Serendib, ordering galley proofs, etc., but the problem is that it’s not just a matter of cooking one dish. You see, the dish in question is stringhopper

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Pink and Silver Pretty

Pink and silver are v. pretty together. This is what ended up in the Earth Tier “Narnia in Love” boxes: • Artist’s Valentine rose-cardamom iced cookie • “Caramel Loves Passionfruit” marshmallows • strawberry marshmallow • chocolate scone with cherry & orange • gingered red velvet crinkle cookie • brownie drizzle heart cookie • rose tea:

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