1960 Medical batch, Colombo, Sri Lanka.: 2012-04-01

Friday, April 6, 2012

'Kalu Nana's visit to Avissawella.

'Kalu Nana', his wife, and his cousin, dropped in at my residence in Avissawella. We had a rollicking time recalling old times. Above are some photos taken at that time.

Philip

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Sri Lankan Cooking - Try your hand at it.

Want to try your hand at cooking. Here are two recipes from Sri Lanka. Hope you are successful in your efforts.

Jack Curry - 'Polos'

Recipe

Tender Jak........................................... 250G

Saffron powder.................................... 1 teaspoon

Roasted 'curry and chillie' powder........ 1 dessert spoon

Coconut milk........................................ 3 cups from half a large coconut

Roast dark and ground fine the following

Scraped coconut.................................. 1 dessert spoonful

Rice...................................................... 1 dessert spoonful

Curry leaves...........................................1 sprig

Salt water...............................................4 1/2 dessert spoonfuls

Vinegar...................................................1 dessert spoonful

Maldive fish.............................................1 dessert spoonful

Goraka.....................................................2 pieces

Cinnamon................................................1 small piece

To temper

Curry leaves............................................A sprig

Dill seeds.................................................1/2 spoon

Coconut oil..............................................2 dessert spoons

Lime........................................................1/2

Roasted curry powder..............................1 dessert spoon

Preparation

Cut the tender jak with the skin in large pieces. Boil well with sufficient water to cover. Cut off the skin and center after boiling and cut the remaining into 1" cubes. Mix in all the ingredients (other than the roasted curry powder, coconut oil, curry leaves, dill seeds and red onion). When mixture is ready, temper it with the coconut oil, dill seeds, curry leaves and red onions. Cover and cook on a low fire. Stir occasionally when cooking. When sufficiently cooked, remove from fire and spread the curry powder and cover.

Fish buns

Recipe

For the dough

Wheat flour............ 500Gms

Salt

Yeast.......................1 teaspoonful

Sugar......................1 tablespoonful

For the Filling - Mash it up

Boiled Fish or salmon

Boiled Potatoes

Black pepper

Preparation

Sieve the flour. Mix the sugar, yeast, salt and water to make the dough. Knead and mix it well. Cover the prepared dough with a wet cloth and leave it for about 8 hours to ferment and rise. At the end of the 8 hours make small balls with the prepared dough. Flatten the balls of dough and insert the prepared filling and cover with the dough keeping the filling in the center. Beat some egg white and brush the top of the buns with some of the beating. Switch on the oven and let it heat up to 250 degrees Centigrade. Insert the buns on tray inside the oven. Bake at 250 degrees Centigrade for 15 mins. Check that they are baked well and remove from the oven.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

The Middle-wife, a story.

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Thought you might enjoy this - I did
Loueen

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The middle Wife' by a Prac Teacher : A true Story

I have three children myself, but the best "birth" story I know is the one I saw in a second grade classroom when I was prac teaching at East Gambier Primary over four weeks.

When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So I always had a few sessions with my students. It helps them get over shyness and usually, show-and-tell is pretty tame. Kids brought in pet turtles, model airplanes, pictures of fish they catch, stuff like that. And I never, ever place any boundaries or limitations on them. If they want to lug it in to school and talk about it, they're welcome.

Well, one day this little girl, Erica, a very bright, very outgoing kid, takes her turn and waddles up to the front of the class with a pillow stuffed under her sweater.

She holds up a snapshot of an infant. 'This is Luke, my baby brother, and I'm going to tell you about his birthday.'

'First, Mom and Dad made him as a symbol of their love, and then Dad put a seed in my Mom's stomach, and Luke grew in there. He ate for nine months through an umbrella cord.'

She's standing there with her hands on the pillow, I'm trying not to laugh and the kids are watching her in amazement.

'Then, about two Saturdays ago, my Mom starts saying and going, 'Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh!' Erica puts a hand behind her back and groans. 'She walked around the house for, like an hour, 'Oh, oh, oh!' (Now this kid is doing a hysterical duck walk and groaning.)

'My Dad called the middle wife. She delivers babies, but she doesn't have a sign on the car like the Domino's man. They got my Mom to lie down in bed like this.' (Then Erica lies down with her back against the wall)

'And then, pop! My Mom had this bag of water she kept in there in case he got thirsty, and it just blew up and spilled all over the bed, like psshhheew!' (This kid has her legs spread with her little hands miming water flowing away. It was too much!)

'Then the middle wife starts saying 'push, push,' and 'breathe, breathe'. They started counting, but never even got past ten. Then, all of a sudden, out comes my brother.. He was covered in yucky stuff that they all said it was from Mom's play-center, (placenta) so there must be a lot of toys inside there. When he got out, the middle wife spanked him for crawling up in there.'

Then Erica stood up, took a big theatrical bow and returned to her seat I'm sure I applauded the loudest.
Now you have two choices...laugh and close this page or pass this along to someone else to spread the laughs. I know what I did!!!

Live every day as if it is your LAST chance to make someone happy!