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Sri Lankan Recipes by Curry Mad –  Fried Schnitzel Ingredients 500g Beef Schnitzel 1 Brown Onion 3 Cherry Tomatoes A few Fresh Mint Leaves 1/2 Green Capsicum 1 Tblsp Oil 250g Potatoes Salt & Pepper to taste How Wash, clean and cut the Tomatoes, Capsicum and Mint and put aside. Boil the potatoes until firm but not mushy. Marinate the schnitzel for a short while (30 minutes) in Red Wine. Fry the sliced onion until transparent and then add the Schnitzel and fry in as little oil as necessary. Enjoy while still warm. ...

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Sri Lankan Recipes by Curry Mad –  Green Prawn Stir Fry Ingredients 2 Medium size Banana Chillies, long sweet yellow 1 Average size Carrot 1 Tsp Garlic paste/minced Garlic 250g Green Prawns 3 Medium size Mushrooms 1 Packet Noodles, fresh (From fridge serction) 2 Tblsp Oil 1/2 Medium Onion rings (Optional) size 2 Medium size Sweet Hot Chillies Optional) Sauce 2 Tsp Cornflour 2 Tblsp Oyster Sauce 2 Tblsp Soy Sauce, low salt 2 Tsp Sugar 2 Tblsp Water Method Prepare all ingredients, clean, wash and cut, except the mushrooms, which must be wiped using a paper towel, or something similar before you cut them up. If you wash the prawns, be very gentle! When cutting up the chillies, slice diagonally and remove the seeds, as these are hottest parts of any chilli. Then slice the chillies into any shape or size you like. Wash your hands after handling any ...

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“ROAD-SAFETY” by Desmond Kelly ‘The Star of eLanka’ In comparison to many Countries around this World of ours, Australia has some of the BEST roads, available for drivers of motor vehicles, anywhere. It is true that “unmade” Country roads may pose the odd question, but most major roads are a pleasure to drive on, maintained “mainly” as they should be, and, provided the nuts in your tyre-assemblies are not the “nuts” behind your steering wheels, we should not be faced with the problems that we do, in this day & age. Why is the road-toll in Australia SHOCKING! ?. Why are more people dying as a result of road trauma than even those who go to war?. Why are the hospitals always overcrowded with victims severely injured on our roads? . Why, why, why,?. We ask these questions a million times and still cannot find a satisfactory answer. I have ...

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INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE FOR NOVEMBER 2016 This is a great poem that reminds us to always be mindful of our words and actions toward others because the moment we let them go, they will have an effect on someone else either good or bad. Hope you will be blessed by this poem and remember to be mindful of the pebbles that you drop in the water of life. Enjoyed this poem for many reasons but mainly because it reminds us 
that our words do not end when we finish speaking them, but they go on and 
on to either bless or discourage someone else. What you do for one person will not end with that
 person but will be passed on to others, just as you passed a blessing or 
kind gesture on to someone else. ...

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Most of Sri Lankan type of food can be cooked by saving nearly 60% energy by Dr Hector Perera: London Direct heat cooking is applied mainly in Asian type of cooking such as rice and curries. One of my concern is to find out how to save in energy and to stop any cooking aroma getting on them while cooking. If the people are not really careful in saving energy in cooking, they have to pay for whatever the energy they used, apart from that they pollute the atmosphere with polluted gases. Back home in Sri Lanka they used firewood stoves in cooking but now things have changed for better with modern facilities such as with modern gas and electric cookers, ovens and with extractor fans. They cannot use any more firewood stoves unless they are in remote areas or in villages because now they live in apartments. Unlike in ...

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“THE MINISTER’S CALL” by Desmond Kelly the “Star of eLanka” This is presently very much in the “news” on television at the moment, but for those of you who are not aware of it, “I say what I mean,& mean what I say”. This tragic drama occured in Geraldton, a little mid-west town of Perth,Western Australia, in 2014, and what should have been a “true-life” love story, ended as a “true-death” sentence for this young male doctor (Athukorale), who was bludgeoned to death, (as he slept), by his Sri Lankan wife, (Liyanage), also a doctor. and quite a popular one, in Geraldton too, I believe. Two young people with everything to live for, “obviously” in love, but covertly in a marriage that was fraught with abuse both physically & psychologically, , suffered by Chamari Liyanage,at the hands of Dinendra Athukorale, her husband,(it has to be noted by non Sri Lankans ...

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Give me Rice & Curry World’s first curry was made 5,000 years ago: Indians have been eating their national dish since the Bronze Age Ancient Indians used advanced farming techniques to bring in rice, bean, lentils tuck into curries, dhal and rice dishes Archaeologists have discovered that rice was cultivated in India at the same time farming techniques were developed in China New information confirms the Indus people were world’s earliest farmers By DAILY MAIL REPORTER PUBLISHED: 02:03 GMT, 21 November 2016 | UPDATED: 08:19 GMT, 21 November 2016 Indians have been tucking into curries, dhals and rice dishes since the Bronze Age, according to new research, and probably even had takeaways. Ancient Indians used advanced farming techniques to bring in rice, bean, lentils tuck into curries, dhal and rice dishes – around 5000 years ago. Archaeologists have discovered that rice was cultivated in India at the same time farming ...

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Drinking during the Festive Season & drug interactions Written by Dr Harold Gunatillake-health writer These days’ health conscious people go for organic foods. Let’s discuss whether it’s worth-wise and purse-wise the changeover. Organically grown foods are considered good for the environment, but for human consumption supposed to be questionable. The price of most organic foods is about 30% more than the conventional produce. Have you ever bought organic milk- oh! It is expensive, and you’ll invariably revert to your conventional low fat milk from your supermarket. ...

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“ABDUL”  QUEEN VICTORIA’S LAST LOVER  ! – By Des Kelly   Royal loyal … Abdul and Queen Victoria in the 1880s By EMILY FAIRBAIRN Published: 23rd April 2012 But just over a century ago the same celebration for her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, was nearly derailed by her scandalous relationship with an Indian manservant. In fact Her Majesty became so infatuated with tall, handsome Muslim Abdul Karim that senior royal advisers plotted to have her declared insane just days before her Jubilee unless she halted a controversial plan to knight him. The young waiter — he was just 24 — had begun serving the Queen’s table in June 1887 after being sent to London as a “gift” from the Indian outpost of her empire. He soon began bewitching her with romantic tales of mysterious India, and cooking up delicious curries for her in the royal kitchens. But royal biographer Jane Ridley ...

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