Last summer, we spent a few hot, sweaty days in Rome, touring cobblestone streets, ancient ruins, and taking an amazing cooking class. After a long time procrastinating, a trip to Sri Lanka completed, and heading to Paris in a week, I’m finally getting to editing my travel photos from last year. As I sit…
Peach Pie + Blog Birthday! + Notes on Success
It’s this blog’s second birthday!! I can’t believe that two years have actually passed since I was frantically googling how to host a website, what kind of web design template to buy, what to even name this thing. Thanks to all my family & friends who follow and support me in life and on my…
Perfect Blueberry Scones
As I mentioned in this post a long time ago, tea time is steeped (heh, heh) into my mom’s history and culture from Sri Lanka, and has also played an important role my own upbringing. I remember going to tea parties with my momma when I thought fancy food was icky, and all I wanted…
Straight-Up Chocolate Cupcakes with Ganache Frosting
As I edited photos for this post, I had to eat chocolate chips to curb my craving for cupcakes. I take this as is a sure sign of a good recipe. Sometimes you just need a good old regular chocolate cupcake with chocolate frosting. But I’ve learned through the years that “chocolate cupcake” is, (in…
Spring Leek, Pancetta, & Lemon Pasta
We recently moved to a new town in the Bay Area, and I’ve been itching to check out the local farmers market since it opened (finally!) for the season in April. Our old town had an amazing market all year-round — full of flowers, fruits, pastries and, a little randomly, delicious Indian food — and…
Sri Lankan Chicken Curry
This post has been written, re-written, avoided, agonized over, etc since deciding to post. Not because I didn’t want to, but just because…well, what do you say? I’m avoiding my grief, I’m avoiding thinking about it too hard. But I want to say something. After all, she meant so much to me, to my family. So here…