Sri Lankan Food & Healthy food recipes Peckish Me

Sri Lankan Pork Black Curry

Jayani SenanayakeSeptember 12, 2016

A truly Sri Lankan Pork recipe to cherish There are 3 words that make the eyes of any full blooded pork-eating Sri Lankan here or abroad bulge, light up, sparkle and twinkle. These 3 words have everything to do with a dark, sinful slow-cooked concoc... Read More...

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Delicious white chocolate blondies

Jayani SenanayakeSeptember 2, 2016

Blondies are my new obsession. No, not THOSE blondies, the ones that you bake in the oven and eat. Ok now that sounds even more disturbing. Anyways, I made these white chocolate and cherry blondies some time back and everybody absolutely lov... Read More...

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Baked cauliflower casserole

Jayani SenanayakeAugust 29, 2016

An easy dinner idea for a weekday Eating healthy for me is a way of life with an occasional indulgence in the middle. Getting hubby boy to eat healthy, well that is another story altogether. It’s cauliflower season here and big, white pimply glo... 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 our afternoon naps, and we would stagger and stumble out of bed, squeezing the last dregs of... Read More...

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How to make peanut butter – The video

Jayani SenanayakeAugust 14, 2016

Peckish Me releases its first ever video in collaboration with Life Online on how to make peanut butter at home! I know the video quality isn't the best and I can think of a few ways to improve it to give you a better experience, but we are still ... 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 a somewhat village-like setting is that everybody wants to show off their hometown to you... Read More...

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Sri Lankan Treacle tart – Fight against Food Waste

Jayani SenanayakeAugust 5, 2016

You know your recipe is winner when your fussy eater husband says “I’m so glad I married you” after taking one bite of your dish. This is my take on the English treacle tart and this was born on a day when I was racking my brain about how to use u... Read More...

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Peckish Me on Sunday Times :)

Jayani SenanayakeAugust 2, 2016

Peckish Me was featured on Sunday Times last Sunday. Check out the full article here :) Full article at http://www.sundaytimes.lk/160731/plus/words-flow-from-the-flavour-of-food-for-this-foodie-202660.html... Read More...

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Creamy Chicken with Tarragon and Leeks

Jayani SenanayakeJuly 29, 2016

I think I have declared my love for all things creamy before. If you haven’t read that post, and if it hasn’t been evident from the excess of creamy recipes that I share, check out this creamy prawn pasta, mushroom and ricotta ravioli, Gratin Dauphin... Read More...

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Butter garlic noodles

Jayani SenanayakeJuly 29, 2016

This I must confess, I am ashamed even to post. It’s that easy and the flavours are so simple. This is an ideal dish to be paired up with an especially flavoursome dish – like this Tarragon Chicken dish I made the other day. In fact, I made this nood... Read More...

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Sri Lankan rolls – Summon your nostalgia

Jayani SenanayakeJuly 22, 2016

When we were small, these thin, round rolls coated with bread crumbs and deep fried to perfection were simply called “rolls”. At a later stage someone wanted to posh things up a bit and wanted to call it “Chinese rolls”. But now, the world simply kn... Read More...

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Gooey Chocolate Muffins – For those bluesy days

Jayani SenanayakeJuly 15, 2016

Don’t you just love a good muffin straight out of the oven on a lazy afternoon? I know I do. The hubby creature being the muffin monster that he is, has been craving for muffins several days now. I’ve been putting it off for days – but it was time... Read More...

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Creamy prawn pasta

Jayani SenanayakeJuly 8, 2016

My name is Jayani and I am a creamy food/drinks addict. There, I finally admitted it. I love all things creamy and cheesy – creamy pastas, creamy beverages, creamy rice dishes, hell, I wouldn’t drink tea or coffee without the cream. I know, not to... Read More...

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Healthy ice cream – You’ll go bananas over this!

Jayani SenanayakeJuly 1, 2016

I think I will never go back to regular ice cream again. Let’s put it this way. I have never been a huge fan of ice cream. Strange but true. Even as a child I had no special affinity to ice cream the way little children have. I disliked how watery... Read More...

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