I’d love to find some vegan test cooks for the new vegan edition of my Sri Lankan cookbook. I’m hoping to get 5 volunteers who are willing to test cook maybe 10 new recipes over the course of the next month. You’d let me know if any of the instructions need clarifying, and I’d love […]
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Do I have any vegan Sri Lankans in the house? I’m starting work on expanding Vegan Serendib, and I’d love to hear more about what dishes you particularly love and would want to see in a cookbook like this. Other vegans are welcome to weigh in too, and other Sri Lankans, and, well, anyone, really.
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Here’s a weird little COVID-cost. You know my cookbook launched in March, which was pretty much the worst possible timing for a pandemic book launch? We ended up cancelling many, many events scheduled for spring and summer, and in fact, completely lost March / April for promotion due to being overwhelmed with pandemic stuff: switching
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For lunch today, reheated some takeout Thai green curry tofu from last night, added chicken, onion, bell pepper. 20 minutes of simmering, and it’s like a whole new dish, full of extra goodness.
The McKay article about Feast made it to another venue, the Roanoake Times: https://roanoke.com/…/article_f434d713-fd26-58b7-9379… The flavorful, and often overlooked, foods of Sri Lanka Mary Anne Mohanraj missed a lot of things when she went off to college, but the thing she was most homesick for was her mother’s cooking. When her parents immigrated to Connecticut
School lunch today — apple-cheddar crescent rolls + slices of apple. Vegetables at dinner, really. I admit, I use Pillsbury crescent rolls to make these, because while I *can* and *have* laminated dough for croissants, I definitely don’t have the time during the school week! So these aren’t fancy, but the kids adore them. Slice
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Breakfast for dinner last night — it was a long, sad day, and I felt the need for some comfort food. The kids were delighted — bacon and bombatoast. (We’ll eat some vegetables today, I promise.) How to make bombatoast (with me and Kavi): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVvaTDLLD70
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Just a nice Sunday lunch — omelette with melted swiss and prosciutto on fresh-baked bread, still warm and crispy, with apple slices and apple cider. Mostly, I leave the kids to fend for themselves for lunch, but every once in a while I surprise them with something like this, and they are SO HAPPY. When
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I was watching a re-run of the Great British Baking Show, and they had them making soufflés for the technical challenge (which, for the record, I have never made, Kevin makes the soufflés in this house generally), and one of the contestants said she’d never made a roux, and they were all ‘what, never?’ and
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Kevin wasn’t feeling great yesterday, and as a result, he overcooked the broccoli for Anand’s birthday dinner. (Cooking while sick generally doesn’t go well.) But no worries! Today, we turned it into broccoli cheddar soup, sprinkled some more cheese on the top and served with a loaf of hot, crusty bread. Fabulous for a cool
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