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another aunty’s food

Speaking of pineapple curry, I recently got to try a special batch, made by an aunt of mine visiting from...

My appreciation for the love cake you see in this picture is three-fold: I made it with my aunt, and we followed my grandmother’s hand-written recipe. I’m not letting that cloud my feelings about the end result itself, but those...

parsley pittu

My aunt's at it again, pushing the ingredients in her recipe for pittu around like puddles of paint on a palette. Last time it was millet pittu, this time, parsley pittu.

cook love: sena seneviratne (my dad!)

I can't fully explain how I was nourished, encouraged and influenced by my dad in the kitchen. Here are some of his food memories and inspirations.

vadais

A Sri Lankan snack, fried, scented with curry leaves and flavoured with onions and only a scattering of fennel and cumin seeds.

the best moms ever (and their best recipes)

This site is scattered with recipes from the various moms in my family. All brought to you with love.

kokis and oil cake: taste + technique

I've just never been a fan of spice cakes. But I do love that these cakes are made in oil and not baked!

mint chutney

Mint chutney is perhaps the strongest contrast to the food its paired with, its flavour can't be tempered.

the ingredient: sri lankan red rice

This red, whole grain basmati cooks up more like other red rice (like cargo rice), than basmati.

cookbooks i’m craving: asian dumplings, encyclopedia of asian food

There’s been so many great things said about these two book, more than enough to tempt me to buy....

sri lankan-spiced carrots

Sri Lankan meals typically include many curries and accompaniments, but just these carrots on a bowl of rice is totally satisfying.

issues

green

fat

we say tomato

what to eat?

crudités with curry leaf coconut sambol dip