Serendib Kitchen

(makes approximately 2 1/2 c.) I doubled the amount when I was making this, because I had PLANS for my passionfruit curd. But this is probably an appropriate amount for reasonable people. Fabulous topping for vanilla ice cream (or mixed in while making your own, to create mango-passionfruit ice cream), equally fabulous on a scone, […]

Mango & ginger cream scones. Recipe tomorrow.

Cute, hm? Not quite my usual style, but very sweet. Passionfruit-rose soap in a knitted heart for Valentine’s Day. I’m thinking we can probably put together some kind of Valentine’s Day treat package, but quantities will be very limited — I can maybe do 15 of them? I’m thinking these kinds of things: – knitted

Experimented a little with edible rice paper decorations for cookies (found on Etsy). It definitely has a tendency to curl, so will need to work on it some more to learn how to do it right. And apparently you can’t refrigerate or freeze them, as the moisture will affect the color, so that means I

I came downstairs last night for a glass of water at 11:45 p.m. (Kavi’s bedtime over break is supposed to be 11 p.m.), to find her carefully placing little gummy bears in what remained of our previous chocolate cake village + meringue mounds of snow scene. And she’d even made a chocolate tree! I didn’t

I gave Kavi the little village cake mold to use for her chocolate cake, and so I HAD to put them out in a snowy sea of meringue. I was tempted to try to make little trees out of chocolate and add them to the scene, but we’re not actually having a party, of course,

I made meringue kisses yesterday. I’ve been meaning to try making them for a while (I’ve mad a big meringue for a pavlova, but never little kisses), but somehow never got around to it. I finally motivated yesterday; I’m planning to stop by L!ve Cafe and drop some off for Reesheda and her staff. Little

Kavi baked yesterday — she asked if we could make a cake, and I had a bunch of work and meetings, so I hesitated, but then I remembered that we had box cake, so I handed it to her and said go to. I did hang around to answer questions, but basically, she baked a

Yesterday, we had a start-of-year Serendib House meeting. I’m trying to get more organized about such things, and it was really helpful, I think, pausing and doing a round-table assessment of how we did last year (amazing, considering pandemic!), what we’re excited about this year, what we’d like to do differently, etc. Among other things,

This recipe may not quite match up to the photos, since when I was making biryani for New Year’s, I used leftover lamb curry as my base. But it’s basically the same concept. So luxurious — fit for a maharajah’s table. Lamb Biryani (or Goat, Beef, or Chicken) Biryani, derived from the Persian word berya,