Serendib Kitchen

 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/

I get a lot of spam related to A Feast of Serendib (I think because it was hybrid published, and that put me on a list somewhere), from people who claim that it has great potential and they want to partner with me to publish it. Which I think basically always means they want me

The Carleton let us bring in our own birthday cake, so I made Kavi a cake we both love: Sri Lankan butter cake, done ribbon style, with a mango-peach glaze, lemon curd, fresh strawberries, and passionfruit buttercream. (This isn’t exactly the same, but very close, if you want to try making it yourself: https://serendibkitchen.com/…/sri-lankan-butter-cake…/) The

If you’re going to have Sri Lankans over, short eats are pretty much mandatory. I think I have rolls and mackerel cutlets down, but my patties still need work — they look fine when waiting to fry, but when we fried them, they didn’t puff up properly — I think we may have over-worked the