Food and Recipes

(Makes 24 mini-muffins or 12 regular muffins) You can certainly make these in regular muffin pans, but I was making these for my Patreon treat boxes, which have a fairy theme this month, so I went for mini muffins instead — smaller, cuter, fairy-sized. It does take a little longer this way to fill and […]

(about one hour, plus cooling time; makes 16 bars) These fruity little fusion bars could be breakfast or dessert! I used up the last of the berries from my spring garden, along with rhubarb, and gave it a slightly Sri Lankan inflection with lime juice in the filling and cashews for the topping. If you

I made these to serve triple duty — I wanted to put some out at yesterday’s event, I’ll include them in the next batch of Patreon boxes, and I also just like have meringue kisses around for nibbling on — they’re perfect when you want a tiny hit of delicate sweetness. So I made a

Now that the semester’s over (I’m hoping to finish my grading today), I’ve started baking for the spring Patreon treat boxes (which I think we’re going to be shipping around the 2nd week of June). If you join now (by the end of May), you’ll get a June box, which is something like a 75%

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

(30 minutes + 1 hr chilling time, makes 35-40) 4 T salted butter 3 c. white chocolate chips 1/2 c. heavy cream 1 T rosewater pink food coloring ¼ cup shelled pistachios, dry roasted and chopped fine 1 t. rose petals, chopped fine 1. In a small saucepan, melt butter, white chocolate and heavy cream

Just a few more pics from last night’s sweet-making. I realized I didn’t post a recipe, so here it is: 1) Melt 1 c. milk or dark chocolate chips in a microwave safe-bowl at low power for 2 minutes, stirring at 30 second intervals. Dip strawberries and place on parchment paper. 2) Melt 1 c.

Cherry-chocolate scones or orange-chocolate scones? I waffled for quite a while, before the solution to my dilemma presented itself — why not both? A perfect pairing for Valentine’s Day! Cherry for its sensuous lusciousness, orange for a bit of spring brightness (because spring is coming, even if it doesn’t feel like it yet). Surrounded by

Needed a photo of broccoli varai for the vegan cookbook, so made it and devoured it for dinner last night. So good! As a bonus, Anand happily ate it too! Kavi likes the broccoli, but says she doesn’t like the little seeds, which I think might be a legacy of having worn braces for years;

I had to retake some photos of uppuma for Vegan Serendib — the photo we used for Feast had a meat curry in the photo too, and we figured it’d be better to get a clean photo for Vegan. I did the super-fast version that I cooked weekly during grad school for these photos, but