Ceylon Silver Girl: 02/01/2005 - 03/01/2005

Ceylon Silver Girl: 02/01/2005 - 03/01/2005: "2.09.2005
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Another day of not being hungry. This really is unprecedented. Don't worry, folks, I ate, and plenty. It was just something I had to remember to do, rather than something I constantly thought about and desired, which is the usual status quo.*

The result of not-being-hungry is that I don't really want to cook, so I just eat what's already available. I made fabulous french toast** for Malka this morning (in town after sending her father off to the airport lasternight) and had it with peanut butter--new brand, I'm so sick of Kraft--bananas and kithul palm syrup. It was pleasantly sweet and salty. Then the rest of the day I ate dried fruit (thanks Aunt Leona!) and Craisins (thanks Mom! also a fruit but bears separate mention) and Curd-with-Treacle (thanks Jill!). As Gerrit notes, that sounds absolutely awful. It's not. It's basically thick tart creamy yogurt with maple syrup. Except the yogurt is made from water buffalo milk and the maple syrup is from kithul palms. It sounds better in Sinhala: kiri pani."

SciDev.Net

SciDev.Net: "Sweet science: Sri Lanka's rural treacle industry"

Sri Lanka Food, Sri Lankan Food Culture, Sri Lanka Food Recipe, Sri Lankan Food Recipes and Culture

Sri Lanka Food, Sri Lankan Food Culture, Sri Lanka Food Recipe, Sri Lankan Food Recipes and Culture: "Traditional desserts too are commonly found in Sri Lanka, such as kiri pani (buffalo milk curd and treacle), wattalappam (a Malay origin egg pudding with jaggary or hardened treacle), sweet meats such as kevum (made with flour and treacle) and kalu dodol (jaggery, cashew nuts and coconut milk)."

travelsrilanka - Food - Sri Lanka

travelsrilanka - Food - Sri Lanka: "Curd and treacle (kiri peni) consists of thick buffalo curd (mee-kiri) topped with the palm syrup (peni) of either the kittul or coconut tree. Curd can also be eaten with sugar or a mixture of white rice and slices of banana."