Haven’t heard of stone apples before? Neither had I. But they’re a very real thing.
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Bread Trishaw!
We have a neighborhood bread trishaw. We also have neighborhood ice cream trishaws. 🙂 This bread trishaw goes through our neighborhood, and others, playing an annoying tune that everyone recognizes as belonging to the bread trishaw. Those who want to buy bread run out to the road with rupees in hand and buy… whatever. I …
Everything you ever needed to know about coconut scrapers
Well, mostly, anyway. 🙂 Being a Canadian, I didn’t know that coconut scrapers were called coconut scrapers – I would have called them shredders or something else, but coconut scraper it is, at least in this part of the world. 🙂 After all, how many coconuts did I ever buy when I lived in Canada? …
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Mortar and Pestles and Cast Iron Pans and Coconut Scrapers, Oh My!
On our way to Arpico in Battaramulla for our weekly grocery shopping, we stopped off at a shop. This shop is about 100 feet east of Arpico on the opposite side of the road in the even that anyone’s looking for it. 😀 We stopped because, the last time we were there, I saw that …
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Eggs in Sri Lanka
It’s just not the same as it was in Canada, let me tell you. 🙂 There’s a shop at the end of our road, about 50 meters away. It’s a small shop, about 6’x6′. When Fahim buys eggs for me from there (he goes because they don’t speak English and would not understand me, or …
Grocery shopping in Sri Lanka
Since probably most of you who are reading this have never been to Sri Lanka, I thought I’d tell y’all a bit about what it’s like here. Fahim and I do most of our grocery shopping at Arpico, a department store with a grocery section and fixed prices. Why is fixed prices important? Because I’m …
Poll: Sammy the Sourdough needs a new name!
My first sourdough starter was named Nellie. Nellie as in Little House On The Prairie Nellie Olsen Nellie. Nellie because she was difficult, ornery, whiny, and just a general pain in the buttinski. It wasn’t her fault she was that way – I raised her in a “stainless steel” environment. “Stainless steel” in brackets cuz …
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Sri Lankan Food and Me
The question came up on Twitter about me, a Canadian, living in Sri Lanka, and what are my cuisine experiences, how do I cope, and whatnot. That’s really quite a big question in a lot of ways. Sri Lankan food is quite spicy. From what I hear, it’s on the spicy end of the scale …
Thai Enchiladas
Yeah, I know – it sounds bizarre. Fahim, Lou, Ike, and I did a massive shopping trip at Majestic City today. Massive. At some point in all of this, we’re hungry and head into the basement where the food court is. We’re all prepared to be pretty much disappointed – this is, after all, a …