Serendib Kitchen

Putting together the autumn treat boxes tomorrow, to ship out to Patreon subscribers. So I’m baking a bit this weekend — made half a batch of sugar cookies yesterday and will bake the other half batch with the kids later today. I find that if I divide it into two batches, and do one batch […]

It hurt. That’s what I remember about scraping coconut as a child, struggling with dark metal clamped to the edge of the kitchen counter, afraid of the sharp grating blades. My arm, unmuscled and unaccustomed, ached after just a few cranks round; my mother mostly offered critique, rather than praise for my efforts. Too often

Kavi’s and my logo design for Serendib Kitchen, draft 2. I think it’s pretty close at this point to a workable draft! We invite your critique to refine it further. The text is in my handwriting, which is not the most beautiful, but does gives some of that homemade charm, or at least so Kavi

Cider marshmallow experiments. I made my mulled apple cider marshmallows with corn syrup and white sugar first, per usual, but for the second batch, I tried swapping those ingredients for honey and jaggery. The honey makes the syrup boil up much higher, so you do need to use a bigger pot, or be extra careful

I looked at a bunch of recipes with herbs and other seasonings, but in the end, I just used olive oil, salt, and pepper on the roast, and it was perfect. Preheat oven to 375F, cut up red onion, carrots, gold potatoes, toss with seasonings and oil, pat dry Cornish hens and season the same

This is the last of Kevin’s birthday meal kits from Girl and Goatceries, their SE Asian green beans. I’ve never used meal kits before — they’re pretty pricey, but on the other hand, they do seem like a great way to teach someone how to cook (or to remind yourself how to cook). Taking some

This is the Girl and Goatceries elotes kit. It is yummy. Yes, I could get most of the components separately on my own, but they do have an interesting house-made sauce that comes with, and some nights, you just want someone to put it together for you… Just grill the par-boiled corn for a minute

I made up little packets of apology postcards and stickers to go out with these book / curry powder orders. Sorry they took a few weeks longer than normal, folks. The semester fell on me like a freight train, but I’m getting up now. Whew.

Pretty pretty curry powder.

Isn’t this lovely? One of the people we gave away a cookbook to left me a bouquet of flowers on the porch! Totally unnecessary — that book was paid for by another generous soul. But that’s not going to keep me from enjoying the flowers. I think I’m going to take them up to Kavi’s