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Eggs in Sri Lanka

August 19, 2009

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 [...]

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The Sizzle, The Scam

July 27, 2009

There’s a restaurant that Fahim and I go to every now and then called The Sizzle, and by every now and then, I mean four times in the last year or year and a half or so, and by that, that makes it our most frequented restaurant. Because, yes, we really don’t go out that [...]

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Stocking up on food in Sri Lanka – good idea or bad idea?

July 12, 2009

Generally, bad idea.
Ants get into everything they can. Weevils and worms frequently are already inside the flour & grain & lentils & beans & so on bags, so you don’t want to keep a bag of flour for even three months and assume it’ll still be fine – it likely won’t be. Mung beans [...]

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The Wild Yeast Version of Peter Reinhart’s Poolish Ciabatta

July 11, 2009

Ciabatta is the next bread in line for the Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge, and I’d been looking forward to making Peter Reinhart’s version from the Bread Baker’s Apprentice for a while. I’d made a couple of others but wasn’t impressed with the results, so wanted to see how this version would turn out.
Plus I’d [...]

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Death by beets?

July 10, 2009

I made beet coleslaw. No, really! And we liked it! Really!
I know, I know, raw beets in a coleslaw – it didn’t sound entirely, uh, well, I wasn’t sure if I was going to like it or not, but I wanted to try something different with my beets, and I love to the point of [...]

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Grocery shopping in Sri Lanka

July 9, 2009

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 [...]

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Cooking Away My CSA

July 8, 2009

I’m a Canadian (from western Canada) living in Sri Lanka for the last six years. Yeah, big change. Huge dietary change, too.
Sri Lanka is the teardrop shaped island off the south east coast of India, but it’s not India. It’s its own country.
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BBA Breads

July 7, 2009

Over at Pinch My Salt, Nicole has posted a list of all the Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge breads, in order. And she’s adding links to each bread as she posts the entry for each. Great idea!
I have a hard time keeping track of, well, all sorts of things, and this will help! So here [...]

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Peter Reinhart’s Stretch & Fold Technique

July 6, 2009

Found this video on, where else, but YouTube, showing Peter Reinhart demonstrating his stretch and fold technique. I find watching these videos really helps. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how much is a video worth?

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Sourdough Challah

July 4, 2009

This is the next bread in line for the Bread Baker’s Apprntice Challenge.
I haven’t had challah before, nor have I ever seen it. I knew that it was a Jewish traditional bread and a favourite of some Jewish friends, and I knew it was usually braided. And that’s the extent of my knowledge about [...]

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