Serendib Kitchen

Love is asking if he can slice four medium onions for you, and then realizing that aside from the slicing, it’s just as easy to do a double batch, and asking if he’d mind slicing eight medium onions instead, and he may sigh a tiny bit, but when you come back downstairs, there they all […]

  Anand came downstairs saying, “I came down because it smells so good!” Another round of chai-spiced banana bread, with dried cranberries stirred in. I’ve finally cleared the rather immense backlog of overripe bananas, which is good, because we are about to have some more to toss in the freezer. The kids go through phases

Another round of the Ginger, Passionfruit & Cashew Chocolates I made yesterday, this time in a small dome mold. These molds don’t have the intricacy of the patterning of the previous mold, which means they’re perfect for adding additional decoration. (And hey, maybe I did tempering okay after all, because those chocolates have a nice

Kavya: “But mango fluff is so delicious and making it was so easy! Why don’t we make this all the time?” Me: “Well, now *you* can make it all the time if you want.” [I taught her how to make it for this week’s Sunday dinner. Video forthcoming shortly.] Kavya: “Hm. Maybe I will invite

Made it home, Thai takeout for dinner, because between me being sick and Kevin covering for me at home, plus the first week of classes, we’re both wiped, and the kids are tired too. But I *was* feeling well enough to go down just now and make myself a cup of tea to soothe my

A flash from the past — my birthday last summer, when various friends took me out for various lovely meals around town. This one was at MORA Asian Kitchen, Oak Park, a new addition to our neighborhood — I liked the poke-style appetizer the best. 🙂 Lovely to be reminded of warmth and fellowship in the darkness of

I am starting to feel better enough that I no longer convinced that I HAVE to lie in bed and rest and someone posted here that chocolate is good for coughs and I have been meaning to try making some chocolates and surely it’s fine for me to get up out of my sickbed and

Heather sent me a photo of her making the curry powder from my cookbook. 🙂 She doesn’t have a grinder (I use a coffee grinder I dedicate for spices), so she’s doing it old school, with mortar and pestle… Looks good!

Okay, here’s a question for all the indie publishers out there. I know that on launch day on Amazon (March 6 for A Feast of Serendib!), I’m supposed to encourage people to go flood Amazon with reviews (which they can’t publish there earlier), but also encourage people to buy books on Amazon. My question is,

Guys, I’m a little worried that in the next six weeks, with the run-up to the Feast launch, that the marketing is going to get so intense that you’re going to get utterly sick of me. Um, you’ll tell me, right? Are the hashtags deeply irritating? (They make it easier for Heather to propagate appropriately, but I