Lemon-lime pound cake & Truffle Mac and Cheese
Did some baking yesterday. Lemon-lime pound cake, truffled Mac and cheese.
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Serendib Kitchen
Sri Lankan dinner for my hosts
Cooked Sri Lankan dinner for my hosts (who provided the groceries) and their guests. Big thanks to Mary for all the sous chef work, including multiple loads of dishes! (Menu constraints: two vegans, one person with nightshade allergy, and our picky host. ) Menu: Eggplant two ways: curry and sambolTempered potatoesCashew curryCarrot curryPickled beetsKale saladRed
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I made dinner
Sri Lankan writer SJ Sindu is in town with her partner Jeff, so they’re staying with us for a few days before heading to ALA. I made dinner.
A nice dinner for Kevin
Went to a little trouble to make a nice dinner for Kevin for Father’s Day. Not the most kid-friendly meal, but they agreed this one dinner was for him, and they managed fine. I thought all the recipes (from Smitten Kitchen) were good, but the burrata-cherry-pistachio appetizer was outstanding. It’s going on the party list!
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I do love biryani
I do love biryani. Most of my students hadn’t had it, and they liked it! Love introducing folks to new, delicious foods. 🙂
Adding spiced marinated chicken
Adding spiced marinated chicken to sautéed onions for biryani.
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Sautéing sultanas and cashews
Sautéing sultanas and cashews in ghee for biryani.
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Let’s see AI do that!
Last day of classes potluck; I brought chicken biryani. Lovely to end the semester with lots of shared food. (Let’s see AI do that! 🙂 )
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Okay, yes, there was more food
Okay, yes, there was more food at last year’s writing workshop. Another day, we had gado-gado, which is SO MUCH BETTER than crudité. (Sorry, crudité!) An Indonesian dish, a mix of raw and boiled vegetables, served with a (preferably spicy) peanut sauce. I love it. Charmaine Solomon has a good recipe in her Complete Asian
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More workshop food!
More workshop food! This meal was a sort of Italian-Mediterranean assemblage, I think? Giant rice salad (frugally using up the leftover rice from Sri Lankan dinner the night before), fried eggplant in a tomato sauce, sautéed mackerel, pasta, cheese, roasted broccoli, various and sundry other things that I thought would go well with it… …and
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