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Sri Lankan pancakes

Sri Lankan pancakes (Wellawahum)

Jayani SenanayakeFebruary 17, 2017
When us Sri Lankans talk about pancakes, we are talking about luscious treacly coconut filled ones. I remember walking into a house flooding with the warmth ... Read More...
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Habala pethi aggala (A healthy Sri Lankan rice flakes snack)

Jayani SenanayakeFebruary 7, 2017
When I was small, weekend afternoons always brought in treats. My mother being a working woman would be more or less at leisure during the weekend and we know t... Read More...
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Red bean buns – A healthy snack for all times

Jayani SenanayakeJanuary 18, 2017
I must confess. This is an experiment that went absolutely right. What happened was that I had a whole box of boiled kidney beans from an earlier recipes jus... Read More...
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Beat the flu with this amazing bowl

Jayani SenanayakeJanuary 10, 2017
It’s flu season here. Mornings are chilly and getting out of your snug, warm bed takes some extra effort. Pulling on some pants/dress/skirt, stepping into th... Read More...
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Starfruit cleanser

Jayani SenanayakeJanuary 6, 2017
Okay folks, fun time’s over. Christmas and New Year came and went. You’ve had your sugar overdose, the booze, the guilty pleasures and indulgences and now, i... Read More...
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Christmas Herb bread – DIY breads for Christmas

Jayani SenanayakeDecember 15, 2016
I love cooking and baking in December. Everything smells like aging wine, spice and ripening fruits in honey and your heart is brimming with a joy that you cann... Read More...
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Beloved Sri Lankan food – Sago pudding

Jayani SenanayakeOctober 7, 2016
Sago. We eat it as a pudding, we eat it to remedy the “heat” in our body, we mostly drink it, usually in the morning as it is said to be a “cooling” food. Let’s... Read More...
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Sri Lankan Tea buns

Jayani SenanayakeAugust 19, 2016
It's 4 o'clock and the smell of freshly baked bread, roast paan, kimbula banis and tea banis emanating from our neighborhood bakery would wake us gently from ou... Read More...
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Embilla – The unknown Sri Lankan fruit

Jayani SenanayakeAugust 11, 2016
Now the advantage of being a new bride is that everybody wants to feed you. The advantage of being a new bride who has left her city home to join her husband in... Read More...
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Soursop the Miracle Fruit

Jayani SenanayakeJune 24, 2016
Marriage has changed everything. My surroundings, the people around me, the routines I’ve religiously followed, the schedules, my sleep……the list goes on. It ha... Read More...
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Sri Lankan Fish Ambul Thiyal

Jayani SenanayakeJune 17, 2016
Every Saturday morning a smokey, delightfully spicy yet surprisingly mild mist nudges my nostrils. It envelopes me in a cloud and fills me with delicious dreams... Read More...
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Bread making – Homemade multi grain bread

Jayani SenanayakeMay 28, 2016
So it is the rainy season again. Rain turned to floods and look at the devastation the island suffered at the hands of it. And the rain just keeps on pouring, a... Read More...
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Purple Yam smoothie – Raja Ala drink

Jayani SenanayakeMay 6, 2016
Large, bulbous and purple – that is Raja Ala for you. I was on my usual Sunday morning Farmers’ Market visit the other day, casually strolling through th... Read More...
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Beat the heat with this miracle drink

Jayani SenanayakeMarch 31, 2016
It was one of those sweltering hot, all consuming, sweating till you faint kind of days. Hubby boy and I had just arrived at my place for the week and as we ... Read More...
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Jayani

Jayani C. Senanayake. Lover of cookie dough, raw cake batter, cinnamon and sunny afternoons. Home cook, book worm, poet, dancer and time traveler (in spare time). This is my food (rant) blog. Welcome!

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