Serendib Kitchen

Dan recommended I try breakfast at La Note in Berkeley, and it was an excellent recommendation. I had an open omelette with potatoes and caramelized onions, served with slow-roasted Provençales tomatoes, and of course sourdough toast with whipped butter. With a good hot cup of tea. FABULOUS. I gather they’re quite packed on the weekend, […]

While we were watching the D&D movie with Anand, I baked Kevin a cherry clafoutis, which was about as much as we were going to do for Father’s Day — we don’t really celebrate it or Mother’s Day much here. But he does love cherries, and they’ve just come into season, and clafoutis is super-easy

 I ask because my family has started going through them at a truly ridiculous rate (especially considering that my own garden isn’t producing them yet, so these are all purchased). But they are so yummy — here we have my breakfast, a slice of multigrain toast with whitefish spread, topped with cherry tomatoes, and it

I still get a lot of pleasure out of wrapping up pretty presents of cookbooks and homemade curry powder for folks, especially when they’ve asked me to inscribe a sweet note along with it.

Rescue cooking last night turned out well. We’d gotten some Thai basil chicken last week that wasn’t great — lots of meat, not enough sauce, not enough other stuff. So last night, I took some of the green onions from the farmer’s market, added in a cube of frozen ginger-garlic, sautéed them with bell pepper

Tomato-mozzarella-basil salad, composed of ingredients from the farmer’s market. Also some cute little mini-baguettes; we get these frozen from Trader Joe’s, and it’s very satisfying to pop a couple in the toaster oven for 3-5 minutes.

I had an iGov meeting from 8:30 – 9:30, and then I lured Anand into accompanying me to the farmer’s market with the promise of fresh donuts. He didn’t realize that it also involved being a beast of burden until AFTER we had gotten there… Saw multiple people I knew, including the OPALGA+ folks staffing

I used this recipe for the cake — or rather Kevin did, because I often ask him if he can make the batter for me for things, and then I bake and decorate. https://www.recipetineats.com/easy-chocolate-fudge-cake/