Sri Lankan Food & Healthy food recipes Peckish Me

Butterscotch sauce aka Salted Caramel Sauce – this one’s a keeper

Jayani SenanayakeMarch 27, 2015

The monsoons started just yesterday. As usual, the rain has the habit of catching me at the worst possible times so came home today after work, half drenched, fully windblown and craving for a nice, warm bath. After a fully satisfying long, hot bath,... Read More...

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Easy Sultana Cake

Jayani SenanayakeMarch 23, 2015

Another one of regular household treats that I whip up every once in a while for teatime. One of the simplest recipes that is a breeze to whip up and is ideal to serve up if suddenly you are told that friends are coming over for tea. Not a sultana lo... Read More...

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Hummus at home

Jayani SenanayakeMarch 17, 2015

This is a dish that I quite brainlessly prepare. This dish is so mundane and I prepare it so regularly that never have I even considered blogging about it. But a recent chat with an acquaintance made me realize that not a lot of people are aware that... Read More...

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Polenta chips – Sri Lankan style

Jayani SenanayakeMarch 13, 2015

I love polenta. Such a sun shine-y colour. Happy food. But cornmeal is a difficult thing to come by, especially in our locality. And polenta chips for me, are a healthy alternative to french fries any day. Although, this recipe is a bit more tr... Read More...

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Flourless Chocolate Cake – Gooey Goodness

Jayani SenanayakeMarch 5, 2015

Flourless mocha cake. Flourless because I just couldn't bear flour in my chocolate today. My body has been blabbering chocolate rants all day. Sleep depravity combined with stress does weird things to you. Yet another assignment-stress creatio... Read More...

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Eating by hand – Intimate, essential, complete

Jayani SenanayakeJanuary 24, 2015

Someone once said that eating with fork and knife is like making love through an interpreter. While I have no idea what that feels like, I do believe that it is something horrendous and as ridiculous as it sounds. I believe that every meal is a co... Read More...

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Eggless butter biscuits!

Jayani SenanayakeJanuary 11, 2015

This has been a long time coming. I cannot bake without eggs. Let me rephrase that. I couldn't even IMAGINE baking without eggs. But I had to, a challenge that I reluctantly accepted because of a vegetarian friend (no, not one of those hipster ve... Read More...

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Bread pudding a la Sri Lankan

Jayani SenanayakeJanuary 6, 2015

I <3 Bread pudding :) Cold bread pudding, screwing my face up as I bite into pieces of lemon peel, cardamom pods and sorting through raisins are amongst my most fondest memories of childhood. And that is exactly what this blog is about - Nostal... Read More...

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Sri Lankan Christmas Cake – A story of Fruit & Spice

Jayani SenanayakeDecember 27, 2014

The Sri Lankan Christmas cake. This should have been shared a few weeks back ideally, but fear not, it is not too late still! So the infamous Sri Lankan Christmas cake. Or the 'Rich cake' as we know it. The deceptively simple yet notoriously d... Read More...

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Milk Wine – Essentially Sri Lankan

Jayani SenanayakeDecember 7, 2014

You know what's around the corner when the milk wine is brewing. It's that time of the year again! Despite the occasional gloominess and rain in the evenings, mornings are unarguably golden. The air is festive. Oh, you can almost touch it, the s... Read More...

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Chocolate Mousse with mint and strawberry – Yum!

Jayani SenanayakeNovember 9, 2014

Warning - It is advisable to not make this more than twice a year. It is super yummy and addictive and therefore, extremely dangerous. Do not give in! If you do, chances are that you will probably die with a massive cardiac arrest. But it will be a... Read More...

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Two minute pudding – Chocolate chip & salted caramel mug cake

Jayani SenanayakeOctober 21, 2014

This is all Nigella's fault. It was pouring outside that night. Just out of the shower, I was snugly curled up in front of the laptop, writing the night away as usual. And as is always the case, writing makes me hungry. And being hungry makes me... Read More...

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Wood apple seaweed jelly – From scratch!

Jayani SenanayakeOctober 11, 2014

First, let me do the victory dance. You have to understand, as a person who cannot and will not follow a recipe to save her life, getting this jelly to set, in the way that it has set is quite an achievement. Instructions and I have never really g... Read More...

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Rainy morning indulgence – Seeni sambol & egg toasties

Jayani SenanayakeOctober 7, 2014

Rainy day. Egg & seeni sambol toasties for breakfast. Yum! The thing with seeni sambol is that once prepared, you can keep it for days. The thing with me is, I don't eat kiribath unless there is seeni sambol or fish ambul thiyal. So Mother Dea... Read More...

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