When I was small, weekend afternoons always brought in treats. My mother being a working woman would be more or less at leisure during the weekend and we know t... Read More...
Sago. We eat it as a pudding, we eat it to remedy the “heat” in our body, we mostly drink it, usually in the morning as it is said to be a “cooling” food. Let’s... Read More...
A truly Sri Lankan Pork recipe to cherish
There are 3 words that make the eyes of any full blooded pork-eating Sri Lankan here or abroad bulge, light up, spark... Read More...
It's 4 o'clock and the smell of freshly baked bread, roast paan, kimbula banis and tea banis emanating from our neighborhood bakery would wake us gently from ou... Read More...
Now the advantage of being a new bride is that everybody wants to feed you. The advantage of being a new bride who has left her city home to join her husband in... Read More...
When we were small, these thin, round rolls coated with bread crumbs and deep fried to perfection were simply called “rolls”. At a later stage someone wanted t... Read More...
Every Saturday morning a smokey, delightfully spicy yet surprisingly mild mist nudges my nostrils. It envelopes me in a cloud and fills me with delicious dreams... Read More...
The first time I saw thumba karavila was when I was a child. “Amma what are these?” an excited me asked my mother who had just returned from the Farmers’ Market... Read More...
Large, bulbous and purple – that is Raja Ala for you.
I was on my usual Sunday morning Farmers’ Market visit the other day, casually strolling through th... Read More...
First Avrudu out of home. It didn’t really seem like Avrudu, not without Mother’s constant kitchen hustle and bustle and the smell of oil cake cooking at odd ho... Read More...
Step on to the streets and you could see that not only the people, but also nature is getting ready for the Sri Lankan New Year. The mango trees are heavy with ... Read More...
As a child, I detested winged beans.
As a working woman, my mother did not often have the time to both cook and look after us all the time, so it was our dom... Read More...
There are many woes of not being able to stay at your own place after marriage, especially when you are a foodie like I am. First and foremost I miss my mother’... Read More...
How would you like a creamy, chunky, fragrant curry spotted with vibrant pieces of red chili and little flavoursome mustard seeds popping with flavour at every ... Read More...
