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…

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…

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…

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…

INDONESIAN PASTEL (suitable as vegan snacking)

Suddenly I miss to have this snack, I usually don’t do this recipe by myself, as it quite intricate for me, labour of love, and I usually love simple, quick recipe. But this work are worth for every dedicate minute. Even if you want, you can have shortcut here and there, I will suggest later….

CHOCOLATE BANANA PASTRY

For no reason I feel quite sad this afternoon (I am such of person with teaspoon understanding of my own emotion *sigh), then making dessert I think is quite good idea. Even though, I am not dessert person, this pastry was brought a lot of memories, one of my simple favourite snack, with just Banana-Chocolate…

CLASSIC BROCCOLI STIR FRIED WITH CARAMELISED ONION

I am cooking this vegetable as a fixer upper for my spicy cabbage fried rice, this cabbage fried rice are one of heirloom recipe from my mother, just remembering old day. I have cold rice in fridge that need an upgrade, I remember few weeks ago reading a story about fried rice from westerner point…

FRIED TOFU WITH LEMON GRASS AND SWEET SOY SAUCE

I consider this meal as one of Sundanese recipe, Sunda are one of Indonesian tribe that sit in a west of Java island. Sundanese meal are one of my favourite for it freshness, and they used raw vegetable a lot as a side dishes almost similar to salad only we used different kind of leaves…

ZUCCHINI NOODLE IN SAVOURY COCONUT MILK BROTH

I’ve been sick for sometime, and get cold twice a month is too much for me. I think that is a sign that I am not nourishing my body enough, and that is true. Been travelling for almost a month with 2 kids was challenging and worthy, so I’m not regretting to combat any Flu,…

PURPLE SWEET POTATOES PANNA COTTA

I still have some purple sweet potatoes in my stock, I just want to experimenting, and cold Panna cotta sound delicious. What I experimenting here is vegan version, I replace Gelatine with agar powder. Agar powder is healthier from in my opinion, it made from seaweed, and flavourless, so it is easy to blend with…