I’ve been hearing about this place for ages but didn’t really have the time to actually visit. But the other day out on our usual Saturday aimless wandering, we stumbled across the Stuart&Co behind the Dutch Hospital in Colombo.It was quite a task locating it though even if you went looking for it, and I would say it is almost ...
Our cruise with Sail Lanka on the Ocean Diamond started on a beautiful sunny afternoon from Mirissa. Once onboard, all I wanted to do was prance around the deck where the sun seemed to hit so perfecty in that beautifully honeyed afternoon glow. The blueness of the water, the golden sunshine hitting the deck, you couldn’t ask for more! ...
‘Tis not only the season to be jolly, ‘tis the season of utter and absolute decadence as well! Decided to go with yet another sweet treat for the Christmas table. Chocolate fudge. We won’t be celebrating in the usual shamelessly ostentatious manner as the earlier years this time since we are mourning the bereavement of a dearly beloved but we ...
I’m a lazy person. I love cooking well enough but I hate the hours of prep associated with it, the cleaning afterwards, hours and hours of attending to the nitty gritty. I am a lazy person and given the chance to be someone else, I would still be a lazy person because I’m just wired that way. And the best ...
How many of you buy readymade hummus from the store? Do you know what goes in it – which preservatives, flavors, colors etc that can be harmful to your health? How can you be sure?The truth is, you can never be sure. How hygienically it has been made and packed, how fresh the ingredients were or whether they were sourced ...
A bowl of sunshine and happy riot :)I just realized that I have never posted anything on salads.Which is tragic because I love salads! Salads are my go-to meal when I don’t really feel like eating anything else, when I am hungry and need a quick fix or when I am not that hungry but still need to eat something. ...
Every Saturday morning a smokey, delightfully spicy yet surprisingly mild mist nudges my nostrils. It envelopes you in a cloud and fills you with delicious dreams that a sleepy smile draws across my lips with my eyes fast shut still. And I would stretch and open my eyes to a semi-darkened room, knowing that amma is making ambul thiyal for ...
It was one of those sweltering hot, all consuming, sweating till you faint kind of days.Hubby boy and I had just arrived at my place for the week and as we were settling down we were both very much feeling the heat. The balcony doors in my room were thrown wide open and fans were spinning full blast but ...
It’s 4 o’clock and the smell of freshly baked bread, roast paan, kimbula banis and tea banis emanating from your neighborhood bakery would wake us gently from our afternoon naps, and we would stagger and stumble out of bed, squeezing the last dregs of sleep out from our eyes. This is the cue for our fathers in their sarongs and tshirts to ...
After my great mouthwatering (and absolutely addictive) success at Gratin Dauphinois, my flirtation with French cuisine bloomed into a full blown love affair. It was during this period that my friend Devika suggested that I try Coq au Vin, with which Julia Child initiated the sceptic Americans into the simple elegance of French cuisine. I was intrigued. The intrigue only ...
Evergreen fir trees, the ones we refer to as Christmas trees have a history that runs well beyond the years of the Christ. These trees have been used in winter festivals for thousands of years where the ancients used them to decorate their homes during winter solstice as it served as a reminder of the spring that is to come. ...
I think I will never go back to regular ice cream again.Let’s put it this way. I have never been a huge fan of ice cream. Strange but true. Even as a child I had no special affinity to ice cream the way little children have. I disliked how watery it became at the end, how it offered nothing to ...
So here we go, our first video and it’s a cocktail recipe – how to make Sangria! This is a collaboration with the awesome folk at Cocktail Lanka (who did all the hard work actually) and Peckish Me and there’s lots more on the horizon.Check out the recipe post here.Also, Like our FB page at https://www.facebook.com/peckishme/We also have a Youtube page now! ...
If you’ve never had a piece of Love cake in your life, you clearly have wasted your life so far. This is one of those wonderful hybrid yummies that evolved from the island’s colonial past, along with the decadent Christmas cake, breudher and vibrant dishes. Love cake for me is essentially a Christmas treat, but I am always ready for ...
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 to posh things up a bit and wanted to call it “Chinese rolls”. But now, the world simply knows this delicious treat at the Sri Lankan/Ceylonese roll. I was in Chennai at that ...
An intriguing short hike from your modern day comforts and generous hospitality, you arrive at this scene of startling beauty. A cascading waterfall, not a mere trickling, but a majestic, roaring one, cascading in all its glory to a blue-tinged pond below. All along the way, your soundtrack is the tinkling sound of the flowing river and bird call. It’s ...
If there are two words that make my heart beat faster, it would be Pork ribs (always together). If you are lucky you may know a few restaurants which do a killer pork ribs dish. But if you are really lucky, you might know a butcher who supplies you fresh pork ribs to make your own! God, knows how hard ...
Okay folks, fun time’s over.Christmas and New Year came and went. You’ve had your sugar overdose, the booze, the guilty pleasures and indulgences and now, it’s time for that guilt trip down the lane (that usually leads to the gym). And so, it’s that time of the year that juice cleanses, detox rituals, fitness regimes and the like come into ...
On a day to day basis, we eat healthy. And by eating healthy I don’t mean only blanched, tasteless vegetables and boring old porridge, but food that is home cooked, made from carefully selected ingredients and whenever possible, organic and all natural. We are not big on calorie counting (never done it and never will), but we are careful about ...
For those of you who are not aware, croutons are basically cubed and seasoned bread that has been fried, sauteed or rebaked. They usually accompany soups or salads to give them texture and even add flavour. They can even be a snack in themselves and accompany a glass of beer on a cold night. I know you can buy croutons ...
