Hosting this edition of The Sri Lankan Supper Club is the "Live Wide," a 40-foot catamaran docked at Pier 5 in Baltimore's Inner Harbor (next to the red Lighthouse at the end of the pier). Though we will not be taking her out for a spin, we will have a free vantage point for the Chicago concert going on at Pier 6 that evening.
Chef Skiz Fernando will be serving up something special for the occasion--a Sri Lankan delicacy called Lampreis, which consists of an entire rice & curry meal bundled up and steamed in a banana leaf. The dish includeds a base of short-grain samba rice cooked in a rich marrow bone stock along with an eggplant curry; a fish cutlet or frikadel; a mixed meat curry of beef, chicken, and pork; spicy sambal; plantain curry; and blachan (a condiment of Indonesian origin made of dried prawns, onions, salt, lime and spices all ground together into a paste). Rounded off with some mixed Sri Lankan appetizers and caramel pudding (flan) for dessert, this is the perfect menu for lounging on a boat with some cool drinks and cool people, and enjoying the music and the waterfront ambience.
Menu
Appetizers:
Beef Samosas
Masala Vade
Fish Cutlets
Mains:
Lampreis
with
Samba rice
Brinjal (eggplant) Curry
Fish cutlet
Mixed meat curry (beef, chicken, pork)
Seeni (sugar) sambol
Ash plantain curry
Blachan (shrimp sambol)
Dessert:
Watalapam (coconut flan)
Please feel free to BYOB
Eric Maynard, ship's captain, (443-250-4511)
Skiz Fernando 410-733-0566
Skiz Fernando is author of The New York Times Notable Cookbook, Rice & Curry: Sri Lankan Home Cooking (Hippocrene Books, 2012). He is the host of the web series Pan Asian, on YouTube, and took Anthony Bourdain to Sri Lanka for an episode of No Reservations (Travel Channel).
http://www.riceandcurry.wordpress.com
