Serendib Kitchen

One of my personal resolutions is to cook healthier for my family this coming year, because in the mad rush of the last few months, we’ve relied too much on pasta and peanut butter sandwiches for them. (Not to mention all the holiday sweet-making…) So I started off on that plan today, making chicken soup […]

A little more deep-frying for the Christmas party — vadai and prawn vadai. Vadai are both vegan & gluten-free, so a terrific party item. Very popular at our shindig, all eaten up fast, and a great option for vegans. I try to fry all my vegan items first, both so the oil doesn’t get flavored

Christmas party pics. Was particularly happy with how the Sri Lankan love cake village dusted with powdered sugar came out — and it’s even gluten free! Will be making that again next year, I suspect.  #serendibkitchen   #serendibkitchen

I promised to report back on the new deep fryer, and overall, I’d say I’m very glad we got it. We don’t deep fry regularly for our family, but we do it for parties, and we have parties often enough that this will get sufficient usage to make it worthwhile for us. Deep frying is

Finally have a little time to go back and post our holiday party pics — these are nargisi kofta, aka Scotch eggs, made with quail eggs so they’re appetizer-sized. They were VERY popular, and I should’ve made at least twice as many — I’ll know for next time! If you actually manage to have any

Watching Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition 2019 on Hulu (done by the GBBO people, with Paul Hollywood hosting), and there’s a Sri Lankan American woman competing, Sarita Gelner.  Apparently she’s a food blogger and TV chef in St. Louis. Cool. (Don’t google about it unless you want spoilers!) #serendibkitchen

So, as part of the Kickstarter, I promised to do some cooking videos. I’m working on them now — I recorded one with Kavi yesterday, making bombatoast, and one with Jed today, making beet curry. Kavi’s going to show me how to edit them (at least the basics), and we’ll get them up soon. But

We were very tired last night, but we wanted to do something Christmas-y with the kids, so the kids put on their new Christmas pajamas (traditional Christmas Eve present), cut open a tube of cookie dough, and pulled out the sprinkles and M&Ms. Too tired to even make royal icing! The end results were mostly

Banana bread gets fancy.  Made in a bundt pan, sprinkled with powdered sugar, plenty of dried cranberries and crystallized ginger stirred into the batter, and graced with fresh chopped strawberries and raspberries. My recipe for chai-spiced banana bread is here: http://serendibkitchen.com/2019/12/13/chai-spiced-banana-bread-recipe/ #serendibkitchen — in Oak Park, Illinois.