How to make malu paang? Ask me!!! :)

So I tried my hand at making malu paang and it worked out, almost.

Apparently 'warm' water does not mean 'hot' water since this kinda kills the yeast.. oops. Oh well, I am learning, that is the point of all this after all.

I need to perfect it and then I shall put up a proper 'recepie' ;)

If anyone plans to make it anytime soon, let me know.

Cheers! :)

I love. sea food.

don't ask, I won't tell ;)

How to make crepe*

This is really quite easy to make. (Thanks to 'nanga' for introducing me to crepes and sharing this with me. I love it!)

I decided the best things in life are the one's that are shared. So, 'thaaggeng thaagga uthum thaaggai kiyala', I decided to make a post of it it.

Ingredients -

2 eggs

1 cup of flour (piti)

1/2 cup of water

1/2 cup of milk

2 tablespoons of butter melted (it's important that it's liquidified!)

Pinch of salt

Inside the crepe, once it's made -

Banana

Nutella/ Kandos Milk chocolate spread (available at supermarkets, habai tikak ganang i think) or chocolate melted would be fine too

Chocolate syrup

Whip cream (there's an anchor cream in the supermarket and you can blend this, add a bit of vanilla to it)

1 Pan

Bowl to mix everything in

Whisk

Knife to cut banana's

How to make -

Simple! Just mix all the ingredients and put it on a pan on very low heat. Make sure you make it as thin as possible. It's kind of like sri lankan pancakes really :)

Once the crepe is made, put the banana's, whip cream and chocolate melted/ nutella inside and wrap it up like in the pic above. Decorate with chocolate syrup or anything else you have around. I also tried sweetened coconut and brown sugar mix inside, it was exactly like Sri Lankan pancakes.

Try it!! It's so easy and a wonderful dessert/ kind of food, depending on what you decide to put in it. I love how flexible this is :)

Enjoy!

Pepper your day!

Did I mention I love pepper? well, if I haven't already, let me tell you about it. I love it! It's the best thing that ever happened to the human race and food would be oh so wrong if it wasn't for pepper.

What would people do without it? You can have pepper with ANYTHING! Can you say the same about other types of seasoning? Of course not. Pepper is everything! Not to mention the amazing texture and colour it adds to any food. I mean, take the fried egg in the picture for example. Would't it be boringly white and dull otherwise? Look at it now. It looks seasoned.

It looks, right.

Next time you make something, remember that. It doesn't have to be just food you cook. Ever tried pepper with mango (amba), oranges (dodang). pera and (amu) wood apple (yum yum!).

Never underestimate that little bottle of pepper.

Pepper your day! :D

There's something about...

I don't know why, but photographing food fascinates me. I think it's because food is never ever the same. I will probably never have this exact same croissant ever again.

This had mushroom, lettuce, tomatoe, pepperoni and fried egg inside with mayonnaise.

I know, not the healthiest type of food.

But hey, there's something about........the shape of a croissant :)

My doggy on Skype

My election 'bite'

nothing beats kadala. the ads were painful. The shameless gov propaganda was hilarious. The presenters did not even try to be subtle about which side they were on.. But. I have nothing to complain about.

I just hope Sri Lanka has a stronger opposition in the next 6 years. That should give them enough time right? Fingers crossed.

Enjoy the holiday, people! :)