Food and Recipes

Local friends, just sent out an Evite for a Sri Lankan dinner & packing party for next Wed evening (10/30). If you’d like to get an invitation, let me know what e-mail address to send it to. I will feed you in exchange for packing help. 

I’ve been pondering gluten-free Serendib some more. One thing I want to do is try to make gluten-free versions of love cake and rich cake — but the tricky thing is that it’s kind of an expensive and time-consuming thing to experiment with, because it’s a really small amount of flour and a lot of

I need bulk spices, because in the next week, I’ll be making up 118 4 oz. packets of my dry-roasted Sri Lankan curry powder to send out with Kickstarter orders. 118! (Possibly plus a few more; we’re going to be closing pre-orders next Wednesday.) Suggestions on where you’d buy masses of coriander seed and such?

We’re closing in on actually shipping Feast — I need to make 4 batches of marshmallows, 3 batches of soap, and at least one more batch of milk toffee. I can do that. 🙂 It’ll be a nice break from all the computer work that has had me frantically typing for the last week. And I have

FEAST GIVEAWAY! Woot! Okay, let’s try this! You: Between now (Mon 9/30) and Saturday midnight (10/5), post a photo of a Sri Lankan dish you’ve cooked in the comments to this post. It can be something from the cookbook, or a recipe from the Serendib Kitchen blog / FB group / my Patreon, or heck,

Somehow my 2.5 hr IKEA trip yesterday turned into a 5 hr IKEA trip. Some of that was driving, but still. But on the plus side, we finished the bulk of Anand’s 10th birthday room re-do yesterday, and showed it to him, and he LOVED it. Photos soon — we still have to dismantle his

As we enter the season of fall baking (planning on baking pumpkin-chocolate mini-muffins later today, for Anand’s birthday party), I keep thinking about how we show love with food. The kids are so delighted when they come home and find surprise apple-cheddar crescent rolls; it’s very clearly a sign of love. And that’s fine, but

Pumpkin-Toffee Scones with Jaggery Drizzle These little bites of heaven were designed to appeal to my daughter, who can be quite resistant to trying new foods. When I brought one upstairs for her to try, she initially refused. I broke off a small piece and asked her to please try it, that I’d designed it

A friend was over the other day and when I offered them some chicken curry (options: mild, spicy, and with added liver) to take home with her, she said that I should explain how I did that. As a busy parent, she said it’d be helpful to others with picky eaters at home, and of

Autumn Scones with Candied Ginger and Dried Cherries After visiting Dublin, I’m a little scone-obsessed. All the cafes offered scones, and they were generally so much tastier than the ones we get in America, sigh. These were for Kevin’s birthday, as ginger and cherries are two of his favorites. I included a glaze option for