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Implements

Everything you ever needed to know about coconut scrapers

December 22, 2009

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 [...]

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Cooking with propane burners…

December 8, 2009

I’ve mentioned before that not everyone here owns a proper stove with oven. It’s quite common for people to use propane burners like these. Although not everyone can afford this much.
We have one neighbor, an old woman, who lives down our road and comes to the abandoned lot next to our house every now and [...]

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Cooking Gas On Wheels…

December 1, 2009

This big truck is transporting gas cylinders for Shell.
The gas cylinders are used for cooking either with gas stoves like I have (4 gas burners plus an oven with a broiler) or with what those from the US and Canada would think of as camping stoves with one to three burners, although they don’t come [...]

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Baking On The Stove: The Update

November 5, 2009

It’s been a while since I’ve posted about baking on the stove. You can see some previous posts:

Baking on the Stove: Experiment 1
Baking on the Stove: Experiment 2
Roasting vegetables on the stove

Fahim and I have wild yeast (sourdough that’s not sour) sweet buns most mornings for breakfast, and as I’ve mentioned before, Fahim prefers them [...]

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Something for you to not try at home, kiddies.

October 27, 2009

You know the cast iron pan I got? Yeah, I still love it. As cast iron pans go, they need to be seasoned.
Seasoning involves rubbing it with some kind of oil or fat. Some people recommend lard as being the best. Then you stick it in the oven, which you then turn up [...]

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Mortar and Pestles and Cast Iron Pans and Coconut Scrapers, Oh My!

October 13, 2009

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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