In Indonesia (In east Java to be specific), “Jangan” mean anything that come from vegetable, it can be soup, stew or anything you can named, to be enjoyed with steam rice and also some protein, it can be tempeh and tofu if you want to enjoy very humble meal (in fact that is my favourite,…
Category: Side Dishes and Complement
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…
SIMPLE POTATOES SALAD
I want to catch up and write some recipe from previous post of my Instagram story, I make this dishes while I was in Paris, and getting bored on what to eat. My kids are not fan of eating outside, so I have to cooked something for them, which sometime also hard to keep them…
MANGO AND CUCUMBER RELISH
This recipe are new to me, even though I know for quite sometime, but I never tried it by myself. Since it is a bit odd for me, to put mango as savoury recipe. Usually I just used mango for dessert recipe. But out of my curiosity, eventually I make this recipe myself, to company…
NASI UDUK (RICE COOKED IN COCONUT MILK)
I Think you will be find this rice recipe a lot in my post, I love this dishes, it is also my kids favourite, If I cooked this dishes they will be ask more and more. Back in my home country, this rice is really humble menu that serve during breakfast, that companied by equally…
BAKED SEA BASS IN INDONESIAN STYLE AND SAUTÉED SPINACH IN SESAME OIL
I am on mission to make my family love fish, certain fish are good to have, even though these days we have to bit careful on our choice of fish, with polluted environment, mercury issue on fish are quite frightening, and also choose sustainable fish, ask the fishmonger where the fish come from. I feel…
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…
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…