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Last meal in Sri Lanka :-(  That's not counting the inflight meal on Air Lanka though...maybe all is not lost..yet.

Tonight's spread has been designed to fill in the corners of our short culinary tour.  So far this week we've not had the traditional curry and rice.  So :

Beetroot leaf mallung
Beetroot dry-fry
Curry pork
Katta sambol (or lunu miris?  Think I might have the wrong name - help!)
Dhal
..with rice, and mango & strawberries to finish.

The strawberries are grown in the hill country and are the best perfumed & most flavoursome of their kind that I've ever had.  They go well with sugar but...oops...didn't actually need it!

Fresh cooked beetroot is a rare experience and beats beetroot in burgers, hands down.  (Hey, but I'm a definite fan of the Aussie burger!) Even better is the beetroot leaf mallung (chopped leavevs simply mixed with - generally - lime juice, onion, grated coconut & chilli and briefly cooked) .. yum!

Bringing some curry powder home to go with the instructions from Aunty Roshi on preparing a meat curry.  The afternoon preceeding was profitably spent at a local supermarket cherrypicking fresh spices (the spices in the food here were all noticeably more fragrant and fresher than in any meal we'd had in Australia - from cardamom to clovees to cinnamon - and Aunty Roshi pointed that out too).  We also got some spiced snack mixes (cashews, peas, lentils etc in chilli & curry leaves - yum!) plus a bar each of love cake & jaggery cake.  Good thing we brought heaps of luggage - cos there's a lot of food & good tea stacked up for the trip home!