Kepiting Saus Padang is similar to Singaporean Chili Crab. In fact, kepiting saus padang is not sold at Padangese resturants, but it’s available at most seafood restaurants in the country, especially street food hawkers. They also sell another variant of Saus Padang with clam or mussel. Padang seems familiar to you, doesn’t it? About a …
Kepiting Saus Padang Recipe (Indonesian Chili Crab) Read More »
(These pictures are also old stocks, so you will find 2008 as the year) This recipe is not the Indonesian’s classic sate variants. I myself like to use a word sate rather than satay. However, we can make sate with whatever you feel like, including tofu and tempe. Yupss make it vegetarian. Literally, sate means …
Sate Cumi Kecap Recipe (Squid Saté with Sweet Soy Sauce) Read More »
I just realized that there is the 3rd annual Teach a Man to Fish as the latest intake is October 31. Better to get hurry before I let it pass again since I missed the 2nd one. As a girl who grew up in the archipelago country, I used to have fresh ocean fish. My beloved …
Teach a Man to Fish: Pepes Ikan Woku (Manado Woku Spiced Fish Wrapped in Banana Leaves) Read More »
I finally posted a recipe of Lontong Sayur Pepaya Muda Udang or Green Pepaya and Shrimp in Spiced Coconut Milk with Rice Cakes as the last series of Eid ul Fitr dishes 2009. Traditionally, lontong is made by partly cooking or soaking raw rice, draining and packing tightly into a rolled-up banana leaf. The leaf …
Bittermelon, Anchovy, Tauco! Those are 3 great combination for a vegetable dish. My relationship with bittermelon was starting when I lived my own in Bogor, the southern suburban Jakarta where Sundanese predominant and love to eat vegetables esp. in the raw form. These tiny anchovies or we call it “Teri Medan” and Tauco …
Spicy Bittermelon and Anchovy with Tauco: Tumis Pare Teri Bumbu Tauco Read More »
Slowly but sure, I will post the recipe of Eid ul-Fitr. You can tell by the ingredients, this Gulai Kambing or Goat Curry was influenced by Indian culinary. I enjoyed the Gulai Kambing with lontong (Indonesian rice cake) or nasi (warmed steamed rice). This recipe is quite popular among Natural Cooking Club (NCC) members and …
I posted these hidangan lebaran longer than I thought. Hidangan Lebaran literally means Eid ul-Fitr dishes. In Indonesia, we call Eid ul-Fitr for Idul Fitri or Lebaran. On this day, Indonesians usually make special dishes. I didn’t really think to make special ones as I have been busy with living in two places in Manitoba.My …
In Indonesia, especially Java it’s known as Bubur Ketan Hitam. In places with heavy Malay influences (such as Sumatra , Malaysia and Singapore) this is called Bubur Pulut Hitam. Meanwhile in Bali (even though it’s still in Indoensia), it’s given a name Bubur Injin. Windy and cold weather is here now. I am not ready …
Edible fiddleheads are only available during late May to early June in Manitoba, Canada. It means I only eat once a year since I moved to this country. Since my father was a part of Sumatrans, our family used to have edible fidleheads for gulai paku (known as pakis). The most different that I noticed …
Cooking in parchment paper, en papillote in French or al Cartoccio in Italian. It’s a perfect technique for delicate fish filets. This method in which we seal the food in a pouch and bake. The food essentially steams in the oven in its own juices. The method is also incredibly easy and has the added …
Pepes Ikan Kembung (Indonesian Mackerel en Papillote) Read More »
