Category: Meal planning with curries
Wood Apple Chutney/koitha Chutney
Wood apple is known as koitha in Odia . The pulp of the ripe wood apple is mixed with jaggery ,green chili and enjoy. It is a spicy, sweet and sour chutney. In India, the fruit was traditionally a ‘poor man’s food’ .‘wood apple,’ is also referred to as elephant apple, monkey fruit, curd apple,…
Green and Gorgeous
I am always trying to research on how best to incorporate greens in to our family’s diet. I always knew I should be eating way more than I am getting in right now. Growing up in Sri Lanka my mom always made one or more dishes with leafy greens every single day, no matter how…
The Leafy Congee
After cold and frosty snowy days for long I am so eager and exited for spring. I love flowers, feeling of spring sun on my cheeks coming from my kitchen window in the mornings and listening to humming of various birds when I wake up. While I so eagerly await spring, and bursting out life…
The Coconut
In traditional Sri Lankan culture a coconut tree is termed as “Kapruka” in which means the tree of life. Coconut Palms are bonded with the culture so that not only it is used in cooking but everything from building homes, cosmetics, ways and means of providing heat as well as keeping the mosquitoes and other bugs…
