MY MOTHER TOFU SOUP

When I was child, I live in east part of Java Island, Indonesia, there is only two season of climate we have in Indonesia, dry and wet season, dry meaning full of sunshine and high humidity. While in wet season would be rainy all day, for complete six months. I was had quite good experience…

GAI PAD KRAPOW INSPIRED SAUTÉED VEGETABLE

I falling love with Thai food flavour, it is quite similar with Indonesian food but, from what I notice, there is strong different, that Thai food is intriguing because of sharpness, spiciness, the married of sweet, sour, spicy, salty were really good combine. When I having Thai food, I just shut my eyes, and enjoy…

VEGAN BANANA BREAD

It’s been long time since the last time I am making this bread, because since arrive here in Madrid I don’t have any idea where to buy thing such as chia seed or flax seed to replace some of the ingredient, turn out flax seed have a different name in here, and this bread is…

HUMBLE ROASTED SWEET POTATOES IN GARLIC AND HIMALAYAN SALT

I love sweet potatoes, and so my kids too, the one we used to enjoy is whole roasted potatoes. Back in Indonesia, we have one variety that called Ubi Cilembu or honey sweet potatoes, it is called honey sweet potatoes because when you roasting it, it would produce such a melting liquid that so sweet…

TURMERIC AND COCONUT MILK RICE

This recipe is one of  recipe that I hold dearly into my heart, like warm childhood memories, my mother used to cook this dishes on special occasion, thing that my kids also  loving it mean so much to me. In fact anytime they need some comfort, they will request this rice, it is savoury and…

CUCUMBER, DILL AND CHERRY TOMATOES SALAD

This recipe is meant to companied my turmeric and coconut milk rice, to add some fresh relish into my spicy ginger torch sambal from earlier post. I like kind of food that have a lot of layer, flavour and texture, it is like symphony, like you noticing each instrument on good music, I love jazz…

GINGER TORCH SAMBAL

Do you ever heard or even tasting any ginger torch in your meal? well I love love love this ingredient, sound hyperbolic but the unique texture, taste and it fragrance really capture me. SO far in Madrid I never found or seen it, I brought it from home and freeze it, I really obsessed with…

THAI MANGO STICKY RICE

This is recipe is one of my favourite, I remember the first time I taste this dessert, In Bangkok street food stall, It was just love at the first sight, the soft and sweet sticky rice, the fresh mango, just splendid, sometime simple thing could become so delicious and most thing I love usually just…

CHOCOLATE BANANA AND CINNAMON OATMEAL PORRIDGE

Whoop Whoop, I’ve been super busy lately, a lot of pending post which make me felt overwhelming to make short notes about all the experiment that I’ve been done. Well not all of them are my experiment, some are my standard kitchen staple recipe which loves by my kids, but I want to share the…