Oct
15
2010
Having a husband who is a vegetarian, there are a lot of adjustments which I have to make in my cooking. Not only because I didn’t have much time to cook 2 type of dishes everytime for me and hubby, but sometimes when I feel very lazy, I didn’t want to spend the lengthly process [...]
Dec
24
2009
Fried chicken has been the most favourite meal for each generation in no matter which country people live in. I believe that each country have their own way of serving and cooking their special style of fried chicken. And I believe that each home have their own favourite recipes for fried chicken. Mothers… specially know how [...]
Nov
04
2008
Rice noodle which we called “Bihun” in Indonesian or “Bee Hoon” is made from rice and water, but sometimes other ingredients such as starch is added to give the chewy texture and transparent look.
Rice noodle also known as Rice Vermicelli or Rice Stick, in India, rice noodle is also known as “Sevai”. As per my [...]
Sep
19
2008
The tasty secret of this dish is the mixture of 3 sauces, cooked with butter instead of oil. It’s quite Indonesian traditional dish … well, so far that I know. One of the sauces which we use for this dish is sweet soy sauce.
Soy sauce which we also called shoyu in Japanese, is a fermented [...]
Sep
16
2008
This is actually my modified recipe of the Indonesian egg cuisine which is called “Telur Balado” or egg in red chili sauce. In India, egg curry is cooked differently with many spices which are blended to make a thick paste curry.
I’m not really liking the curry which is cooked with the egg, I’ve tried [...]
Sep
16
2008
This recipe was started accidentally. One day when I came home, I thought of making chowmein, but I found out that I was out of stock of dried noodles in my cupboards. So i thought that I just make the most of what I have. So, instead of using the noodles, I would use spaghetti.
The [...]
Sep
16
2008
Meatball which we called “Bakso” in Indonesia is one of the most favorite cuisine in Indonesia, which is served in many ways. Normally meatball is served like soup in a bowl with the noodles, tofu, vegetables, steamed or fried siomay, wanton, etc.
Every country have their own variety in making and serving the meatball depending on [...]
Sep
01
2008
Siomay is my favorite food, when I was still staying in Jakarta, I used to buy this almost everyday I really miss this food so bad, specially the Indonesian siomay which is eaten with peanut sauce.
Siomay is an Indonesian cuisine which is influence by Chinese people who have immigrated to Indonesia since a very [...]
Aug
26
2008
A very interesting fact about noodle is that it has been related to chinesse cuisine since a very-very long time or I can say since the ancient time. I’ve been searching about the history of noodle and chowmein and interestingly nobody knows how this noodle began and who was the first person who made it.
I [...]
Jul
24
2008
One day when I was at home and feeling hungry in the afternoon, I thought that I would cook something easy to stuff my hunger. When I opened my refrigerator I only found the left over of the morning rice, some eggplants, few eggs, cabbage and half pack of cooked sliced ham.
I thought… “well… I’ll [...]