Oh, it’s going to be a little difficult deciding which recipes to include in Vegan Serendib. The temptation is, of course, to put more and more in, to make it really comprehensive. But every time you add a recipe with a color photo, you add some cost to the production of the book. So add 10 recipes, and you have to add a few dollars to the cost, to even have it break even.
The question is whether to make it the same size as Feast(100+ recipes) and the same similar $40 cost, or let it be a little smaller and more affordable. We should be able to do a paperback without photos as a compromise (maybe $25 instead of $40) but that does have similar price concerns regarding length — if I made it shorter, I could make that cheaper too.
80 recipes for $30 hc / $20 pb?
60 recipes for $25 hc / $15 pb?
(Rough estimates…)
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Brainstorming possibilities now — here are a few I’m considering adding. More will come. If there are any here you want to advocate for, now is the time. 
I’ve *starred the definite additions.
Vegetables (mostly as curry or varai):
1) ash plantain (mild or spicy, with kaliya curry variation)
2) poosanikai / ash pumpkin (wintermelon) curry
– vellai (white), variation rasavangi (tamarind)
3) bitter gourd curry
4) breadfruit curry
5) elephant foot // karanai yam (substitute sweet potato) curry or roast
6) plantain flower (if I can find some)
7) snake gourd // pudalangai (substitute summer squash)
8. ridged gourd (substitute zucchini)
9) green chili curry
10) hibiscus curry or sambol
11) sweet pumpkin (or acorn squash, or butternut squash)
Grains:
* milk rice
– jaggery rice
– tamarind rice
Soup:
– dhal rasam (lentil soup)
Accompaniments:
* brinjal moju
– fried jackfruit seed
– quick-pickled cucumber-carrot relish
– acharu (vegetable pickle)
– lime pickle
– green tomato chutney (daily)
– pickled dates
– passionfruit jam
– green banana peel chutney
Snacks:
– bonda
– kolukattai
Desserts
– thengai paal / coconut milk payasam
– parippu piyasam
– laddu and variations
– coconut milk ice cream
– passionfruit sorbet
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And this is what’s already confirmed, recipe-tested, etc., and WILL be included (about 40) — these are all in Feast:
Appetizers:
Dried Chili-Mango Cashews / Kari-Maangai Kaju
Vegetable Cutlets
Lentil Patties / Kadalai
Vegetables:
Basic Approaches to Vegetables
Cashew Curry / Kaju Kari
Eggplant Curry / Kathrikkai Kari
Green Mango Curry / Mankkai Kari
Green Jackfruit Curry / Pilakkai Kari
Okra Curry / Vendikkai Kari
Deviled Potatoes / Ooralai Kulunga
Cauliflower Poriyal
Eggplant, Potato, and Pea Pod Poriyal
Tempered Lentils / Paruppu
Cabbage Varai / Muttaikoss Varai
Green Bean Varai
Sambar
Accompaniments:
Pickled Beet Salad
Green Coconut Chutney / Thengai Chutney
Mango Pickle / Maangai Oorukkai
Coriander Soup / Kothamalli Rasam
Bitter Gourd Sambol / Paavakkai Sambol
Chili Onion Sambol / Lunu Miris Sambol
Coconut Sambol / Thengai-Poo or Pol Sambol
Eggplant Sambol / Kattharikkai Sambol
Kale Sambol
Sweet Onion Sambol / Seeni Sambol
Coconut Milk Gravy / Sothi
Grains:
Golden Rice Pilaf
Vegetarian Biryani
Herbal Porridge / Kola Kenda
Hoppers / Appam
Stringhoppers / Iddiyappam
Plain Roti / Godambu Roti
Chopped Roti Stir Fry / Kottu Roti
Savory Rice Pancakes / Thosai
Steamed Rice Flour and Coconut / Arisi-Maa Pittu
Stir-Fried Semolina / Uppuma
Sweets and Drinks: Tropical Fruit SaladFresh Sweet Lime Juice / Thesikkai SaaruMango or Passionfruit LassiArrack SourMango-Passionfruit Punch or Mimosa
