MY WINTER SOLITUDE IN RICE NOODLE SOUP

My first post for this year, with heavy heart to leave last year. I getting old this year, with a lot of question. So I make this soup to make my day, with unusual combining to warm my heart and my stomach. Sometime food is enough to sabotage your hyperactive mind and I want it…

ASIAN INFUSE WINTER SALAD

It is near the end of December, it is getting cold and cold. Something that cold but warm is good, this salad are refreshing, the ingredient will warmed up cold stomach. We called it Hinojo here, it is fennel bulb, it is sweet, warm and have light star anise flavoured. I mixed my core ingredient…

MY MOTHER FRIED RICE AND FRIED NOODLE

This are one of the most intimate recipe for me, few of my favourite childhood dishes, which was meant so much to me, specially for the fried noodle, because my mom only cooked this noodle on certain festive day. Comfort and ensuring hug from my mom for this cold cold winter. If usually I only…

SMOKY TOFU IN GARLIC AND SESAME OIL

This are the most simplest and delicious way to have a breakfast, it tasty, clean and interesting, yes I know, maybe it consider as heavy breakfast, but my meal are gradually lighter to the rest of the day.  You know that I love garlic, so this recipe are load with them, but you can add…

MY MOM INDONESIAN CURRY

There are so many version of curry in Asia, I think every household have their own version of curry. Just few days ago I posted my most lazy curry, that came out from the bottle, made me remember, It is been long time already that I’m not make my mom version of curry. The recipe…

CHEATING VEGAN CURRY

It’s cheating time and indulge yourself, I love being lazy potatoes couch and yet I still able to devour delicious dishes. And the way to that is, good quality ready made spices paste, I have some array collection of my favourite spices paste, just in case for laziness emergency hehe. The thing about this are,…

AUTUMN SNACKING ON MUSHROOM

Mushroom are abundant at this season, one of my favourite ingredient, this are Niscalo (Lactarius deliciosus) typical mushroom that available in Spain, my girlfriend said this mushroom are delicious, I never have it before, even in season it quite pricy though. But it is worthy every penny, When I was grilled it, my house are…

VEGETABLE FRIED RICE

Celebrating last autumn by enjoy some summer crop, that is frozen fresh veggies, don’t get me wrong, frozen veggies are have same nutrient as fresh veggies, what change nutrient are cooking process, nutrient mostly evaporated during long cooking process, even though some vegetables need to be cooked to evoke some nutrient, I wont stay long…

TEMPEH TERIYAKI WITH BOILED BOK CHOY

When I want an adventure, on food, here I am, making my adaption of teriyaki sauce with tempeh, at least I am satisfied with the flavour. Back in my home country, we love Japanese food, long before it trendy, there are fast food chain that sell Japanese dishes which all my family loved, it rather…

MY MOM HUMBLE STIR FRIED WITH MY TWIST

I remember living in scarcity when I was kid, so we living on what we earn, not much but enough to keep our hunger quiet. This sense are what keeping me to live in frugality these days, but my mother are good cooked with so little ingredient we had. Until now my mother grow her…