Serendib Kitchen

I was getting a little tired, so I almost didn’t make the kaliya curry, but then Kevin was willing to do all the prep for me, so I lay on the couch and watched Darby & Joan (Acorn TV, one season so far, set in Australia, retired nurse and retired inspector solve crimes while cranking […]

More of yesterday’s cooking: green jackfruit & chickpea curry, curried lentils in coconut milk. The best part of making curried lentils for me is that I get to lick the spoon clean after transferring them out of the cooking pot. So yum.

I may have last-minute decided to do a Jaffna crab curry — which is mostly an indulgence for me, because I love it, but no one else in my house eats crab, so I don’t have much of an excuse to make it. But party. Of course, it does mean that anyone unwilling to eat

Doing pre-party prep, setting out the wine. Usually I rarely buy wine, because people bring it when they come to parties, and since I throw a lot of parties, I usually end up with more wine at the end of the night than I started with. But pandemic meant that we’ve slowly knocked down our

Cooking for Wednesday’s pre-ChiCon party is coming along nicely, I think. Focusing on Sri Lankan stuff for now, since the American food will be mostly just throw it on the grill and/or order. Kevin helped me tonight with mixing up fluff, chopping cashews, peeling beets and matchsticking them, so it was reasonably low effort knocking

Some pics from Friday’s Serendib treat box shipping. Bagel bar courtesy Daly Bagel, of course!  

Shifting into high gear for the party cooking. To try to keep myself sane, I made the meat curries in advance and froze them, so these are done: – beef curry – black pork curry – tamarind shrimp – lamb curry (mild) I also made a big batch of coconut sambol. Next step, the veggie

Patreon treats — blackcurrant & lemon marshmallows, blueberry-orange mini muffins, s’more bars. Everything is so tiny and wee! The adorableness, it kills me.