Island Recipe is a home-cooking site with a simple idea: good food shouldn't be complicated, gatekept, or hidden behind a paywall. Every recipe here is written to be understood by a real person in a real kitchen — with clear steps, honest timings, and the little notes that actually make a dish work.
What you'll find here
The heart of the site is Sri Lankan home cooking — the rice and curry, sambols, hoppers and sweets that we grew up eating, written down properly so anyone can make them, wherever in the world they are. Around that, we cook the way most people actually eat day to day: fast weeknight dinners, big-flavour vegetarian meals, desserts worth the sugar, and the kitchen basics — like perfect rice and a proper curry powder — that make everything else better.
Every recipe is tested in an ordinary home kitchen, not a photo studio. If a step matters, we tell you why. If a shortcut works, we'll say so.
Our promise
- Clear and tested. Real ingredients, real quantities, real timings.
- Free for everyone. The recipes will always be free to read.
- No 2,000-word life story before the recipe. A little context, then straight to cooking.
Island Recipe is supported by advertising, which is what keeps the recipes free. We only run standard display ads and never let them get in the way of the cooking.
Get in touch
Made one of our recipes? Spotted a mistake? Want to suggest a dish? We'd genuinely love to hear from you — head to the contact page or email us at disurinda@gmail.com.
Happy cooking.
— The Island Recipe Kitchen