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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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Chicken Pomodori melt – Panino

Jayani SenanayakeJune 25, 2014
Can I just say that I absolutely love Panino?It started as a mild infatuation, while I was searching for a substantial lunch at the Good Market. I'm not a huge rice fan and hence sad to say, the options were scarce, expensive and hardly sufficien... Read More...
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Pasta – Sri Lankan style

Jayani SenanayakeJune 14, 2014
Pasta. Essentially Italian. Essentially European. But like all things in Sri Lanka, we Sri Lankans like to make it our own.Accepted that there are many ways of preparing this dish. Be it with a traditional Bolognese sauce, carbonara, amatriciana or e... Read More...
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Street food fix – Isso roti/wadei

Jayani SenanayakeJune 11, 2014
I was feeling hungry the other day (shock, gasp, yelp!) as I was going home after work, and anybody knowing the area would agree that there is not a single pastry shop/cafe/petti kade, etc to be found around there, the area being the bathroom cen... Read More...
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Quest for the perfect Boondi

Jayani SenanayakeDecember 28, 2013
................and I found it. At a wayward Duwanagiriya (a tiny box type boutique on wheels) in front of a duplicate Devon Restaurant in the heart of Polonnaruwa.I have wasted a multitude of Rs 10/20/30s upon this quest over the years, but to n... Read More...
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The Kade Fried-rice

Jayani SenanayakeDecember 9, 2013
Often spelt in baffling ways in numerous boards and wayward menus by the side of the road, I gotta admit, this brilliant mixture of rice, vegies, an alarming amount of MSG and other unnamed ingredients is something that I will never get tired of.... Read More...
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CHOGM baking

Jayani SenanayakeNovember 17, 2013
Since most Colombo roads are closed and there is no way of getting around Colombo without the risk of being CHOGMed from time to time, I stayed at home and baked! And made a point to photograph the outcomes :) I have my own grandiose ideas about b... 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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