Food and Recipes

Sri Lankan Love Cake (two hours, including baking time; serves dozens) Some say this Portuguese-derived cake was baked to win the hearts of suitors, while others say it’s because of the labor of love involved in all the cutting, chopping and grinding of the fruits, nuts, and spices (much easier these days with access to […]

I wasn’t planning on making rich cake this year, because I hadn’t gotten to it by Stir-Up Sunday, and it’s really better if it sits for at least a month, being fed regularly with brandy. But I don’t know — suddenly, the Christmas Sri Lankanness in me rose up and demanded rich cake. So here

The bi-color vanilla-rose marshmallow process I tried last night worked fine! Mix the white marshmallow, spread half in the pan, add food coloring and beat a little more, than spread second half over. All a little messy, but that’s the way of marshmallows.   Original recipe (for single-color marshmallows) below.   *****   Christmas Vanilla

Using up leftover veggie tray cauliflower and carrots: Dice an onion and saute in oil with ginger, garlic, cumin seed, mustard seed. Cut up leftover cauliflower and carrots from veggie tray and add. Add a bit of chili powder and salt, a bit of turmeric. (If you happen to have some leftover cooked chicken, this

I’m trying to figure out the right balance between working intensively and chilling out. Last week was a lot of work, and it was great getting things done, but by the end of the week, I was eating bad food because I was too tired to cook (and Kevin was too sick to pick up

I bought some Italian sausage a few days ago, that when I roasted it, turned out to be weirdly flavorless. The kids wouldn’t eat it, even though they normally love sausage. More like cardboard than sausage! I tried slicing it up and sauteing it with onions, bell peppers, tomatoes (all of which I had leftover

My mother used to host big Sri Lankan parties for a couple hundred people, and she’d often make large trays of barbecue chicken — mild for the kids, spicy for the adults. She would actually just use store-bought barbecue sauce, adding chili powder, which works great, but you can also make your own using the