Sri Lankan rice and curry meal Archives

“OUR STAPLE DIET” – by Des Kelly I am not too certain about rice being eaten morning, noon & night, but personally, I still prefer rice & curry to ANY cuisine available to us, Sri Lankans. Thank you Victor Melder, for this elaborate story on the humble grain. Many thousands of our e’Lanka readers will enjoy this post, as I have done. I do feel that I am alive today, only because I chose rice & curry as my main meal Forgetting about steaks. Sausages & stuff. Even at 4 score & 6, I still must have rice & curry (fish mainly), a couple of vegetable (bandakkas, egg-fruit, & or roast potatoes, also called ala-thel-dhaala, preferably, c/w a bit of lunu-miris or coconut sambol. No names or pack drill, but I now boast a Sri Lankan lady who has been a Chef in at least 4 (Four) different Countries, before ...

Rice morning, noon, and night in Sri Lanka – By Zinara Rathnayake In Sri Lanka, rice is more than a sustaining staple. It is an undeniable main character in its history and identity. Source : aljazeera My mother is a good cook. My father is just slightly better. That’s how my younger sister would always describe my parents’ food. She’s right. My mother cooked delicious curries. But my father cooked the food we hold dear. My father grew up in Nabiriththawewa, a small village in Kurunegala, about 120km (75 miles) from Colombo. Unlike his two older brothers who were more interested in going out with their friends, my father accompanied my grandfather to every village wedding. From what I could gather, my grandfather was the chef at every function in the village. He had cooked to feed hundreds. “I followed him like a thread follows the needle. That’s how I learned ...