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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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.

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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 mother-in-law [...]

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Coconut kiss – “Beijinho de coco”

November 19, 2009

From the same lady at Craftster who brought Brigadeiros / Embarkadeiros into our life, we have Coconut Kisses, or Beijinho De Coco.

Coconut Kisses / Beihinho De Coco
Ingredients:

397 ml (14 oz)
525 grams
sweetened condensed milk

14 grams (1 T)
19 grams (1 1/2 T)
butter

100 grams (3.5 oz)
132 grams (4.6 oz)
desiccated coconut

Directions

Put all ingredients in a pot and heat over [...]

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Mutant Escaping Super Bread

November 17, 2009

Yeah.
The bread rose too much – I left it to rise overnight, and it grew about 5 or 6x in volume. Yikes!
I’ve had previous experiences with this particular dough not rising much at all overnight, so I didn’t think it would be this much of a problem. But no, it did. And it escaped.
That [...]

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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 and small [...]

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Review – Olive’s Kitchen and Grill Restaurant

November 10, 2009

Fahim and I ate at Olive’s Kitchen & Grill Family Restaurant, which has Chinese, Thai, and Pakistani cuisine. It’s also Halal.
I had a mango lassi – excellent! – and Fahim had a fruit juice cocktail – also excellent. We’d ordered salads for starters, seafood for him and Caesar for me.
The Caesar Salad (Rs. 330) had [...]

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Anguna Kola Sambol

November 8, 2009

An old-ish man in our neighborhood does occasional yard work for us. Today, he stopped by to see if we had any work for him, so Fahim got him to clean up the ditch in front of the next-door property since they’re blocked with a foot-deep amount of mud, plant matter, and other refuse, which [...]

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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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Whacking A Coconut, The Easy Way

November 3, 2009

When I was a kid, I was told that the easiest way to crack open a coconut was to put it in the oven and bake it for 20 minutes, then poke through one of the eyes on the end of the coconut, drain the coconut milk out, then pry it open.
Well, no. So no [...]

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