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Potato and Leek bake
Ingredients 2-3 leeks Salt a little butter pepper and salt 1 kg Potatoes 350ml Cream 1 cup milk Salt Black pepper 1 tsp (Suduru) Cumin...

Manique Abayasekara
Jun 7, 20241 min read


Cherry & Strawberry Tiramisu
Inspiration on seeing my niece Hemanthi Nicholas's Dessert!! Ingredients 1/3 cup Cherry Jam/Strawberry jam or Cherry compote (Juice only)...

Manique Abayasekara
Jun 6, 20241 min read


Baked Vegetables
great to eat with Roast Chicken and Baguette Ingredients 5 large Potatoes 4 large Carrots handful of Radish 2 stalks of Celery 3 Coloured...

Manique Abayasekara
Jun 1, 20241 min read


Baked one tray Salmon
Ingredients 3 or 4 slices of Salmon Cherry Tomatoes Asparagus olive oil salt pepper for Marinade 1 tsp Lemon Zest 1 Tbsp Lemon Juice 1...

Manique Abayasekara
Jun 1, 20241 min read


How to make a truck cake
Items required 5 sheet cakes made sponge cakes and chocolate cakes butter cream icing Coloured fondant Template for truck Oreo cookies...

Manique Abayasekara
Jun 1, 20242 min read


Dhal & Chicken Vade - savoury fried snack
Ingredients 1/2 cup Red Lentil (Mysoor) or Chickpea (Chana) Dhal 3-4 Chicken thighs 1 tsp Ginger/Garlic paste 1/4 tsp Saffron 1 tsp Chili...

Manique Abayasekara
May 24, 20241 min read


Spicy Pickled Fresh Vegetable
Ingredients For the mustard paste 100 g mustard seeds 1 piece of ginger 2 cloves garlic apple cider vinegar 1 tsp red chili powder 1 tsp...

Manique Abayasekara
May 20, 20242 min read


Mustard Paste
This mustard paste recipe was given to me by my older sister Anita Dassanayake. Ingredients For the mustard paste 100 g mustard seeds 1...

Manique Abayasekara
May 20, 20241 min read


Fresh Apricot Cake
Apricots over ripe or going to waste?? Ingredients 550 g fresh Apricots (its ok if it is less) 1 Tbsp lemon juice 1/2 cup butter 3/4 cup...

Manique Abayasekara
May 17, 20241 min read


HOW TO CAKES
Get same size to layer cakes Cake Marked for slicing, measure from top with a ruler and put in a toothpick at the same height. Now run a...

Manique Abayasekara
May 9, 20241 min read


Cookie Fudge in Microwave
Cookie fudge takes 5 minutes to make, it’s the perfect cookies and cream fudge. Ingredients 1 small sweetened condensed milk, 14 oz 480g white chocolate chips 10 Chocolate cookies with white cream/Olo or Oreo cookies ⅛ tsp salt ½ tsp vanilla extract Method Line a square 8 inch dish with aluminum foil. Make sure the foil goes up the sides of the pan so its easy to remove. Set aside till needed. In a glass microwave safe bowl, combine the sweetened condensed milk and white choc

Manique Abayasekara
Apr 17, 20241 min read


Chicken in Airfryer
Ingredients Chicken Pieces Worcestershire sauce Chili sauce 1 Egg Savoury biscuits/Bread crumbs Method I preheat the airfryer at 180° for...

Manique Abayasekara
Apr 4, 20241 min read


Oven Dried Strawberries
Ingredients Strawberries Baking tray Oil paper Method Preheat oven to 350° F. Then wash and remove the tops of your strawberries. Then...

Manique Abayasekara
Apr 4, 20241 min read


Easy Banana cake – for those very ripe bananas – serves 10
Ingredients 125g butter 150g caster sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 egg, beaten 2 very ripe bananas, mashed 190g self-raising flour...

Manique Abayasekara
Apr 2, 20241 min read


Chocolate Passion Dessert
Ingredients 250 g cooking chocolate 400 ml heavy cream 400 ml passion fruit juice concentrate 1 Tin small condensed milk 12g colourless...

Manique Abayasekara
Apr 2, 20241 min read


Fruit cake
Ingredients 180g Butter 150g Sugar 1/4 tsp Salt 3 Eggs 180g Sultanas 75g orange peel 75g Lemon peel 75g candied cherries 40g dried...

Manique Abayasekara
Mar 26, 20241 min read


Dhal/Dal (Lentil) Rice
"Parippu bath" Ingredients 2 cups Basmathi Rice 1 Cup red Lentil/dhal 1 tsp Turmeric salt to taste or you can use a soup cube instead a...

Manique Abayasekara
Mar 17, 20241 min read


Brownie with Chocolate mousse
Ingredients for the Brownie layer 1/2 cup/120g unsalted butter 1 cup sugar 2 large eggs 1 tsp vanilla essence 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa...

Manique Abayasekara
Mar 17, 20242 min read


Olive Pickle - (Veralu Achcharu)
Ingredients Unripe Olives 1 pinch of Saffron Water 1 tsp Chili powder 1 tsp pepper powder 1 tsp sugar 1 Tbsp Ground Mustard paste 1 Tbsp...

Manique Abayasekara
Mar 9, 20241 min read


Sponge cake for Swiss Roll
Ingredients 5 large eggs 100 g sugar 20 g milk 20 g vegetable oil 100g cake flour or all purpose flour Method Pre-heat the oven to 180...

Manique Abayasekara
Mar 7, 20241 min read


How to prepare butter cream icing
Ingredients 125g butter 250g icing sugar 1 tsp vanilla a few tbsp of milk for dripping consistency Method Simple butter-cream icing -...

Manique Abayasekara
Mar 7, 20241 min read


Cricket Shirt Cake
Make a rectangle cake of your choice, when cool cover with butter cream icing . Then cover with rolled out blue fondant, roll out some...

Manique Abayasekara
Feb 18, 20241 min read
