Tea Review: Premium Taiwan Shan Lin Xi Oolong Tea from Nuvola Tea

Shan Lin Xi Oolong Tea is another tea from Nuvola Tea. It is another Taiwan Tea grown at a height of 1600 to 1800 meters.

Sri Lankan Dried Fish Curry

Dried Fish is popular in Sri Lankan cooking. We cook it as a curry, stir fry or even mix with some other vegetables. This is a simple mild spicy curry with dry fish. Adding some lime juice gives some aroma and a good taste to the curry. 

Why I love my Food Blog and celebrating 2nd Blog Anniversary

Today my blog turns into 2 years old. Though it is still 2 years old, I feel like I am blogging from many years. This blog has become a part of my life. Before 2 years ago, I just started this blog to share recipes in details. At that time, I already had my facebook page and it was becoming popular. But when I think of today, I spend more time on Food Corner blog than Food Corner facebook page.

Vegetable Chop Suey (Chopsi from Sri Lanka)

Chop Suey is popular as a Chinese dish. However Chop Suey (Chopsi) has become a popular dish among Sri Lankans. Most of the time, we are able to buy this in Chinese restaurants in Sri Lanka. It is a collection of different vegetables and a good recipe to empty the fridge in a weekend. Vegetable Chop Suey well goes with a fried rice, deviled chicken and chili paste.

Cook like a Celebrity Chef - 5

Here we are in 5th round of ‘Cook like a Celebrity Chef’. I am really happy to see that this event become popular and receiving more entries now.

Though we cook everyday & share them on our blogs or facebook pages, there are some simple tricks that we can use to improve the quality of the meals. Professional Chefs always use their own techniques to make their customers happy, and keep them coming back. So, the basic idea behind this event is to improve our culinary skills.

Sri Lankan Umbalakada Sambola (Chili Paste with Maldive Fish)

Umbalakada Sambola is a delicious spicy dish from Sri Lanka. It is more likely a chili paste. Nowadays, Umabalakada Sambola plays a major role in most function menus.

Mexican Rice

I wanted to try a different rice recipe and found this Mexican rice recipe from a website. It was really easy to cook and my house was full of aroma while cooking. The taste was delicious and I want to try this again.

Tea with Fresh Milk

If Milk Powder is too expensive in Sri Lanka, use fresh milk!

Oh! My today post started like a political talk, isn’t it? :) No, I hate politics and I don’t want to talk about those politicians in my recipe posts. But I do have my own ideas. This is a post I wanted to share from some time. I remember once I received lot of forwarding emails from friends about rising price of Milk Powder. In this week I am receiving a same email from different friends about a Sri Lankan Milk powder brand and health risk of it. So, finally I decided to share this post and this post is specially for Sri Lankans. I am not sure how many Sri Lankans will read this, but I hope at least one person will get the benefit.

Taiwan Dong Ding Oolong Tea from Nuvola Tea

Recently I had a chance to taste tea from Taiwan. I received tea packs from Nuvola Tea. Nuvola Tea is a company specializing in quality tea leaves of Taiwan. From the tea samples I received; first I tried Premium Taiwan Dong Ding Oolong Tea.

Gotu Kola Sambola/Gotu Kola Salad

  

Gotu kola sambola/salad is a delicious and healthy dish from Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka, we have a habit of adding at least one green for our meal. Most of the greens are eaten raw as sambola/salad. One of the popular green leaves among them is Gotu Kola.