Did I tell you how much we love our meats?Mutton and pork being two of the most beloved meats in the household, I like to try out different methods of preparing these two delicacies. And not to brag, but this particular mutton recipe has been known to woo the hearts of the most discerning mutton eaters and it’s something that ...
I love shopping for ingredients. Nothing excites me more than going through the market isles looking for the freshest, juiciest most unusual ingredients to work with. The thought of a market visit alone is enough to brighten up my day. On a bad day when I am feeling particularly down, I go ingredient shopping just to cheer myself up. The ...
A truly Sri Lankan Pork recipe to cherishThere are 3 words that make the eyes of any full blooded pork-eating Sri Lankan here or abroad bulge, light up, sparkle and twinkle. These 3 words have everything to do with a dark, sinful slow-cooked concoction braised in Sri Lankan spices and all the love that this island has to muster. And ...
This Christmas recipe was inspired by this picture I saw on the internet. Since for the life of me, I could not find a recipe, I had to make up my own as I went.It is a rarely known fact that Christians greatly opposed this decorating of Christmas trees when the practice first came up in the 1800’s. It was ...
An easy dinner idea for a weekday Eating healthy for me is a way of life with an occasional indulgence in the middle. Getting hubby boy to eat healthy, well that is another story altogether.It’s cauliflower season here and big, white pimply globes stare at you from supermarket shelves and farmers’ market crates wherever we go. They are hard to ignore really. ...
(In that cliched TV presenter voice) If you’ve had this as a kid, your childhood was awesome. If you haven’t had them well, its high time you had it! When my mother brought home a small polythene bag full of these the other day, I practically tripped over my feet trying to get to it! Known to us as gal siyambala, ...
Who likes Nasi Goreng? Rather the question would be, who doesn’t! Literally meaning “fried rice” in Malay and Indonesian, Nasi Goreng is a much loved Indonesian specialty that we Sri Lankans have embraced and even in some cases, adapted as our own. A spicy rice that is jam packed with flavour and delicious titbits, it is no surprise why this ...
Anyone who knows me knows that I have a thing for pork.A VERY big thing for pork.While it is not something that we eat every day, it is definitely something that we very much enjoy in our household. Whether in a stir fry, mother’s signature bistake or the legendary black pork curry, we are also lovers of pork ribs, BBQed ...
Gentlemen, if your lady makes you pizza, cherish her. That one is a keeper.Ladies, same goes to you. That man is precious. Guard him with your life.Pizza making is a labour of love. The kneading, the prepping, the sauce making, it practically takes up an entire afternoon and possibly, the whole day and requires quite a lot of elbow brease. ...
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 the aisles, dodging hoards of sweaty men carrying heavy boxes on their shoulders and aunties swinging their heavy shopping bags and umbrellas sticking out from under the arms when I saw these beauties. The ...
Sri Lanka hides within its bosom many culinary and herbal secrets. It is a diverse land, each region guarding many mysteries within its virgin tropical forests and unique cultural aspects that is little known among the rest of the island, let alone the world. The divine tasting ‘Kirala’ drink is just one of the south coast’s best guarded secrets. Bearing ...
Hello! Your favorite Sri Lankan Food blogger here :) On my show these days, I’m doing a series of Christmas recipes that are so easy to do that you will be amazed. And Abans, being my preferred choice of kitchen appliances are helping me with their Philips, Elba, Mistral, B&B bakeware and Abans ranges to make the cooking process so ...
All of us have had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and all of us at some point have gotten addicted to the stuff. For me, peanut butter is something that comes out of a jar on a supermarket shelf. I had no idea that this can be made locally, let alone be made at home!Turns out it’s pretty easy ...
To me, almond milk was an exotic thing that can only be grabbed from the finest of supermarket shelves. As a child it was on my forbidden-to-even-consider list of items, an exotic creature that did not belong in my world, these plump and inviting looking cardboard cartons stacked so high up beyond my reach. It was so expensive that it ...
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’s cooking. I may have mentioned this earlier, but I come from a family of exceptionally gifted cooks, my mother being one of the most astonishingly gifted ones, and at ...
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, so it was our domestics who did the cooking for us most of the time. I hated the way in which they prepared the dish, soggy and overcooked with a certain bitterness to it that ...
I’m not quite sure what the origin of this scandalously indulgent dish is, so I am going to assume that it is one of our signature Sri Lankan hybrid specialties. All I know is that hot buttered cuttlefish suddenly appeared on a menu and boom! Everybody was going ga ga over it – and rightly so. Hot butter cuttlefish or ...
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 hours in the night. A new place that I am yet to call as home, yet I tried my best to make it as homely as possible, my version of home where ...
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 on Sunday. “Wait till I cook those for you” she said.Thumba Karavila, those furry little thingsAnd cook for me she did. And I’ve been addicted to these pimply bulbs ...
What struck me the most about this Kandy hotel, The Theva Residency is how exclusively private it is. Tucked away amidst the peaceful slopes of Hanthana mountain range, this is the ideal hideout if you’re tired of the crowds and just want some quietude to let your soul let down her hair and unwind. It was certainly just what I ...
