Unawatuna Beach Resort - UBR

Unawatuna Beach Resort(UBR) is one of the loveliest beach resorts I ever being to. It is a very nice place to relax watching the sea. 

This time we booked luxury room and they did give us 5 star treatment. It has a huge bathroom with jacuzzi, sofa bed, hair dryer, bathrobes, lots of towels, slippers ... etc.

Our Luxury Room - Very spacious

Provided us two bathrobes and bathroom slippers

Safe for our valuables

Huge Jacuzzi which can accommodate two people 

Also I must say I'm intrigue with their buffet. They so many selections for locals and also foreigners. I don't whether that happens because that day there was lot of local. But anyway I'm so impressed with the food.

The restaurant got nice sculptures  

Resturant

They use food to decorate the resturant

There was a boat in the middle of the restaurant. How lovely.

Food for appetite 

More food

They prepare fruits on request

Yum Yum

Look delicious

So sweet

Nice food art

Even foreigners love the place 

I love food craft

 Finally the evening at UBR

Jelly Pudding

After a long time I thought to post a blog regarding a recipe.
Today's recipe is Jelly Pudding.

Ingredients

1. Milkmaid Sweetened Condensed Milk - 1 small tin 
2. Jelly packet - 1
3. Fresh cream - 200 ml 

Method

1. Prepare the jelly packet as per instructions. Keep in freezer till the jelly begins to set at the sides.
2. Whip the chilled fresh cream till it is light and keep it a side.
3. Pour Milkmaid and whipped fresh cream into the semi set jelly.
4. Serve Chilled.

Hope you can serve this to your kids and visitors easily. 

Enjoy April 1st

Mango and Yogurt Treat

In case you have lot of visitors frequently, you need to be little creativity with  your servings. Otherwise they might think that you are serving the same thing everyday. Well today's special at my place is the mango and yogurt treat, which happens to be a dessert.

Ingredients: 

1. Mango & Pineapples (If not you can also take canned fruits.)
2. Yogurt
3. Plums
4. Golden syrup or honey (Not necessary)

Method:

1. Take few bowls or desserts cups
2. Place a layer of yogurt and on top of that a layer pineapple.
3. Again place a layer of  yogurt and on top of that a layer mango. Continue layering until all the ingredients are used up
4. Sprinkles a layer of plums.
5. If you guests like to have it sweet add honey on top of everything.

Enjoy the day. 

Biscuit Pudding

These we can easily buy biscuit pudding at supermarket, but I always believe that home made food are the best.

Ingredients:

1. Marie biscuit - 2 small packets (400g)
2. Cashew nuts - 100g
3. Plums - 100g
4. Pumpkin Preserve - 100g
5. Coffee powder - 2tsp
6.  Chocolate powder - 3tbsp
7. Corn flour - 2 tbsp
8. gelatin - 1 small packet
9. Milkmaid - 1tin
10. Egg yolk - 2

Method:

1. Cut cashew nuts and pumpkin preserve into a small pieces. Mix cashew nuts, pumpkin preserve and plums and keep it a side.
2. Mix milkmaid tin with 4 cups of hot water and keep it a side.
3. Mix the gelatin packet with 1 cup of hot water and keep it a side.
4. Mix coffee with 1 cup of water and close it with a lid and keep it a side.
5. Mix chocolate powder and cornflour powder with previously made 2 cup of milk.
6. Crush biscuits into to a small pieces and put it into a ball and then pour rest of the milk over it.
7.  Mix together the chocolate mixture, coffee, & egg yolk. Put it in the heat stir the chocolate custard till it become a thick mixture.
8. Take the chocolate mixture off from the heat add the gelatin mixture and stir well.
9. Take flat glass dish.
10. Pour layer of chocolate custard at the bottom of the dish.
11. Arrange biscuit layer on top of it.
12. Sprinkle a fruit layer on top of it.
13. Layer it twice, as its done before and finally sprinkle fruits mixture over the top.
14. Put in the refrigerator till you serve.  

Mushroom Soup

Today I made my family a nice dinner with mushroom soup. But I add something extra than traditional recipe. Let me share it with you all.

Serves 5 people
Ingredients:

1. Sliced large onions - 2
2. Sliced button mushroom - 200g (1 packet)
3. Grated Carrots - 2
4. Green chilies (If you prefer it's to be a hot dish)
5. Fresh milk - 1 1/2 cups
6. Water - 
7. Corn flour - 2 tbs
8. Oil (What ever you used to cook) or butter
9. Soup cubes (Not necessary) - 2
10. Salt & Pepper to taste

Method

1. Add oil or butter into in the pan and let it heat.
2. Add sliced onion.
3. Saute for about 5 min in low flame.
4. Add grated carrot & saute for another 5 min.
5. Add chopped mushrooms & saute for another 5 min.
6. Mix corn flour with 1 cup of water and add it to the mixture.
7. If you prefer you can mix the soup cube with another cup of water and add it to the mixture.
8. Add 1 1/2 cup of water.
9. When water starts boiling, add fresh milk.
10. Stir well & add salt, pepper, & green chilies.
11. If the soup is too thick, add some water.
12. Heat the mixture for another 10 min.
13. Finally serve hot. 

Fruit Cake

Is there any cake fans who loved to eat or love to start baking cakes?
Well advice is start baking your first cake with a butter cake or a fruit cake. Once you mastered that, then you can bake any cake without any problem.

Ingredients for 1kg cake

• 250g Flour
• 250g Sugar
• 250g butter or margarine 
• 5 eggs (250 g)
• 1/4 cup of milk
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon Vanila essence
• Fruits (raisons, cashew nuts, cherries, pumpkin preserve... etc. )

Method 

1. Mix flour and baking powder and keep it a side.
2. Beat sugar and butter together, then add eggs one by one and beat well until sugar dissolves.  (For this use a hand beater or a electric beater, but never use a food processor kind of equipment)
3. Add vanila essence and mix well.
4. Add milk and mix well.
5. Preheat oven 180°C
6. Add flour mixer gradually in small quantity and mix well.
7. Bake at 180 °C in a per-heated oven for 25 – 35 minutes.