If you’ve been following my blog, chances are that you are already well aware of my love for pork. In my book, chicken is the most boring meat on planet earth i... Read More...
It’s about time.
Really, I have absolutely no idea I took SO long to write about the world famous Sri Lankan prawn curry. This here is hand down, one of the ... Read More...
As a child, everything overwhelmed my senses.
Smell, taste, touch, a moving piece of prose, poetry or music, you could say that I was a hypersensitive. (I st... Read More...
Let me talk to you about Lamprais.
The wonderfully smelling parcel that comes to you beautifully wrapped in charred banana leaf is not just one dish, but the... Read More...
Everything’s in bloom! With the approach of April and the dawn of the Sinhala and Tamil New Year, it seems as though nature itself is preparing to welcome the f... Read More...
With the Valentine’s Day looming in the horizon (braise yourselves for the overly commercialized season of sugary frivolousness), I thought I should celebrate m... Read More...
Sri Lanka is just your typical, ordinary island in the sun. We drink coconuts out of the tree and eat seafood right off the ocean, wear coconut leaves around ou... Read More...
Once a year, the whole family, mother, father, brother and myself flanked by a plethora of family friends and their families head down to Katharagama to pay hom... Read More...
If you’ve never met my mother or me, chances are you’ve probably not really had a proper Sri Lankan Iced Coffee.
Before writing this post, I scoured the worl... Read More...
This deliciously refreshing mint chutney is ideal with rice (especially with biryani, wadei, dosai and basically anything. I sometimes even have it with bread!
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Pots overflowed, oil spat, splattered and fried and smoke filled our houses. And we overzealous lot are currently in a constant state of overeaten stupor with o... Read More...
We Sri Lankans not only eat our cashew. We cook them.
April brings with it an abundant harvest of cashew nuts, strewn under trees for the picking. Several ye... Read More...
A clay pot, a sputtering open fire, milk frothing at the mouth of the pot and sizzling as it dribbles down the heated surface, a toasted coconut aroma that make... Read More...
When us Sri Lankans talk about pancakes, we are talking about luscious treacly coconut filled ones.
I remember walking into a house flooding with the warmth ... Read More...
