Serendib Kitchen

Aka, what you do with dried out banana bread…waste not, want not.  

8 eggs? My recipe uses 4, which I think is pretty standard. She’s generally a much more skilled cook than me, and makes some beautiful dishes, but I wonder what happened here. I think she said it was her mother’s recipe, and I don’t want to blame her Amma, but someone seems to have led

I suddenly have a bunch of orders to get out the door (probably Monday). They had to leave before it had set, though, so they didn’t get to taste it, which is just tragic. I can probably save a few off-cuts for them, though, no fear.

Chai-spiced pumpkin muffins with chocolate chips. They are very delicious, and my kids have been devouring them, but I forgot the baking soda, oops! So they didn’t rise properly. I’m going to make another batch soon, I think, so will post photos & recipe then – the next batch will go in the autumn treat

One of the libraries has a monthly spice club, and they had me do little curry powder packets for their club – Eliana packaged them up for me, with some recipes, etc., and it just came out very cute.

I’m still not a great cake decorator, but improving. Probably should’ve put more buttercream on the sides and added berries to the bottom of the cake, but I ran out of time, alas! (Note to self, allow at least 30 minutes for frosting cake in future. You are slow.) Per usual, cashew milk toffee and

Someone asked me what my signature dish was last night, and I was totally stumped. I don’t actually have one! But I do like all of these. I wanted to keep this event vegetarian for the South Asia Institute, so I skipped some of the classic Sri Lankan short-eats – if it weren’t vegetarian, maybe