I didn't expect that bakso turned good. In Indonesia, people usually make bakso from king mackerel fish (Indonesian: tenggiri), but so far I have tried two different fish to make bakso, mullet (Indonesian: belanak) and this basa hypophtalmus (Indonesian:...

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I bought a whole cabbage for making siomay bandung (Bandung style fish steamed dumpling), had lots leftover since I didn't need too much cabbage for that. I browsed a recipe of Holubtsi. I see this dish every special day or season at my husband's family...

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My... my... my... this is one of my soulfood. I had been tempted to make it long time ago, but I kept delaying. Finally, I made this by adapting mbak Emi's recipe. According mbak Emi, she didn't add any shallot, but I did add a shallot in, but don't...

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Folks, I haven't been busy lately. Sorry if you didn't see me around lately. However, I still try to keep updating my post.Actually, I made these dishes on November 30, 2007. I just kept delaying on post these. All these were containes baby spinach,...

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As I mentioned on my old posts, I was born and grew up in Java island of Indonesia. Most of the Javanese use lime, kaffir lime, jeruk limo (Citrus amblycarpa Hassk., nasnaranan mandarin, leprous lime) for making sambal or reducing the smell of fish...

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If you go to Dimsum restaurants, you will see chicken feet on the menu. They usually add angkak (also known as Beni-koji, Hong Qu, Hung-chu, Monascus; Red Koji, Red Leaven, Red Rice, Red Yeast Rice, Xue Zhi Kang, Zhitai) to get red effect in the sauce....

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As I noted on my post here, tempe is very popular and traditional food in Indonesia, especially in Java island where I was born and grew up. Tempe always brings my memory back to Indonesia, where I can find tempe easily, either fresh or cooked. Back...

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One time, Anh of Food Lover's Journey asked me regarding bilimbi, one of ingredients that I use lots in Indonesian culinary, especially Acehnese. As one of my friends through multiply told me that bilimbi also use lots in Moluccas culinary as well.Bilimbi...

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ou're so sweet, Little Corner of Mine. I feel like getting a huge warmed hug from you in these cold days. Yeahh, Winnipeg has been snowing, but these past two days are worse. Yesterday was -17C, with the windchill -28C, it was snowing all day. This...

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After reading the 2nd Onion day invitation on IMBB, I sent an email to Zorra regarding on that event. Thanks to Zorra for hosting this event. With my consideration of being an Indonesian, tempeh or tempe has a cake form, made from soybean by a natural...

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Modified recipe from Sedap Sekejap, Brownies Kentang, by substituting dark chocolate cooking for unsweetened chocolate, omitting cocoa powder and adding palm sugar to get South-East Asian flavor.Shaped a pan of brownie by cutting with a biscuit cutter....

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Still continuing my housewarming party's recipe. Now it's time for a recipe of Sambal Goreng Cirebon (Cirebonese Fried Sambal). It's not really like a chili paste, a term for sambal. This sambal goreng's recipe was adpated from Nining's recipe, in...

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After getting confused and posted few of my chosen pictures on my multiply. I finally took other pictures and decided black macaroni is my chosen for CLICK the photo event.Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XTi with lens kit 18-55 mmSetting: ISO 100, speed...

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We've been moved since a month ago. On Saturday night (November 3rd 2007), we were hosting a housewarming party, some friends came over and also introduced the Indonesian food to Aaron, his brother and girlfriend. Don't ask me where the people's photos...

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This avocado blended is just common beverage in Indonesia, you can find at beverage street hawkers/vendors that sell fruits blended. Every family or person has their own recipes, which my family used to add coffee instant and chocolate sweetened condensed...

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Thank you to Margot of Coffee and Vanilla for hosting a blog event "Vegetarian Awareness Month". For this event, my entry wasn't a vegetarian recipe, I would like to share some informations regarding vegetarianism and some pictures of my strawberry...

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I do love eggplants, either raw or cook. Back then while I was in my home country, I used to dip my raw terong gelatik putih (English: thai eggplants) into sambal terasi (dried shrimp paste and chili sambal) or roasted the terong ungu (Japanese/Chinese...

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Sustainable seafood? Is it a kind of seafood? What about Ocean Wise?Visiting Vancouver last summer probably was the week which I learned about a new thing that is related to environmental friendly. Back then, I was learning about 3R and sustainable...

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