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Sri Lanka

Starfruit

December 31, 2009

Our neighbor has a starfruit plant. Tree? Bush? Tree, I think. Many of the branches hang over into our yard, and I get to watch the starfruit grow. And then, when the starfruit is ripe, I get to pick it. And eat it. Happiness. Share and Enjoy:

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Bread Trishaw!

December 30, 2009

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 should [...]

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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 Canada? Less than [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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De-husking and wacking open a coconut

November 29, 2009

My mother-in-law kindly showed her coconut de-husking and wacking-open skills for me while I recorder her doing it. She’s very accommodating. Here’s the result. It’s only 1:25 long and well worth watching. Share and Enjoy:

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Produce Shopping in Sri Lanka

November 24, 2009

Here, we’ve got a few produce shops. See all the bananas hanging there? Most shops here store their bananas that way – more efficient – then will cut off a hand as a customer selects it. The bananas still on the stem is the way plantations sell their bananas to the middle men. When my [...]

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Water, Water, Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink

November 12, 2009

I found some interesting and new-to-me information on The World Bank site: At present this service is at a critical level. Only about 1 out of every 10 households have water on tap and every fifth person relies on rivers, streams and other unprotected water sources for their drinking water. About 30 percent of village [...]

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Bananas!

September 23, 2009

Bananas grow just about everywhere here in Sri Lanka to the point that you’d swear they grow wild. Oh, wait, they probably do. :p Lots of people have banana plants growing in their yards. Go for a five minute walk in our neighborhood, and you’ll pass dozens to hundreds of banana plants, depending on how [...]

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Lunch on Eid ul-Fitr

September 21, 2009

We opted to get outside food this Eid. It’s so much less work and so much less tiring. Unfortunately, it’s not quite as good as homemade. We ordered the mutton biryani package from Miami Catering. The mutton biryani came with six hard-boiled eggs and 1 kg mutton (minimum! they say). It also came with 1 [...]

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