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Every mother in this world would give the best food to their little darling, they will pick the freshest stuff in a local farmer’s market and it could be organic too. As well as me as a mother, I would do everything for my baby to grow and develop eating healthy food. When I first watching Jose made in Spain * link here and Jamie food escapes on tv * link here , they were cooking different type of Andalucia Gazpacho recipe, as you might knowing gazpacho is a classic Spanish cold soup and of course it serves chilled .  They were inspired me to cook something fresh and delicious in the same time for my little darling as I convinced that my little man gonna like it and they are really my inspirations especially for my escape home-cook :) Since I have organic stuff sitting in my fridge such carrot, cucumber and tomato so my humble choice goes into gazpacho recipe the reason because it’s good to have such a fresh food without the heats gets involved. My gazpacho version is the ...

I was thinking on the dessert which I want it fresh and something a little more palatable with some interesting combinations of flavours. The idea of treating my self with the fruits cocktail with the assortment texture on a bite was attractive and gallant in flavour than ever. The creations of the shape on each selection brought me into a pure fun, slicing and matching them. Like all other tempting dessert, I came up with spiced fruit cocktail (Es Buah) for our dessert on that day and I have been used to with my mother recipe which perfect to my keen in order of the bright aroma and the flavour contrast, it kicked! As my expectations that the spices brings a punch of freshness and character,the accent of cinnamon and star anise sets a smooth an extraordinary indulges, that has become an essential enjoyment and a favourite of mine. Please to be free using your desire fruits, but I should say that pineapple is a must . Spiced Fruits Cocktail / Es Buah ************************...

After learning taking food photo with iPhone and of course trying it best looking style on it, to be honest it take me to the fun ride. Everything just goes smoothly on the drive and the idea was deliver as what in my head. I am quite happy though. As I have no experience of taking food photo apart from using dslr, I could barely tell you that this is quite challenging. The post here is not going to tell you that I’m expert or being proud on what I am doing lately, no no no…it’s actually not in my purpose even crossed in mind, not at all. It is more to encouraging one to another, to be uniquely YOU, to be creative and to be who you are and the most important thing is that always being grateful to what you have. The truth to be told, It doesn’t matter what camera do you have in hand, its all about how you explore your genuine creativity, having fun with it and keep shooting.  At the end of the day, its not the equipment you have that counts, its the images you've made ~ Penny D...

What would you do if you are missing kind of early days memorable treat by the street vendor? Home cook it, yes exactly -- I have the same opinion. I was craving Tahwa few days back, but I would have to home-cooked it since I have no idea where to get one. Firstly I have no idea how the recipe is, forget the genuine version by the street vendor, even the recipe book I don’t own it so the only way is to game to try it out and put my efforts until to get it right. I found the recipe here in Indonesia language, how to make it from the scratch and here how to make homemade Tahwa using agar-agar. After reading and pictured the recipe, I come up with my own version, it might nearly close to the traditional tahwa. Of course it didn't go just one or two attempted, it was more than that and i consider the failure counts as hold-up succeed. Instead of using agar-agar I used gelatin powder to my Tahwa, the simple reason is that agar-agar doesn’t gives specific textur...

I always believe that having such an enormous spirit could keep us move on, cheerful and feel special to be unique. The day without the one its such a pain, but I need to keep my self motivated and alive. If you read my post here , you might notice what I am talking about, as for the time being, i am taking my food photo with iPhone, it isn't funny if a food blog without having at least a picture in it.  This is a new to me, I need to discover and explore what is the basic trick to shoot with iPhone, to get to know about it more, playing with it more and the drive is just started. It must be fun ! as I imagine for now, to be honest perhaps I just making my self just chilled. well, I should cut off my heartbreaking story, it might make you gets bored to death. To keep it simple and straight forward--today recipe is miso-sesame dressing . This is one of my curious dressings so far, but today it all paid off ! It’s really appetizing, unique in flavour and the most unexpected on...

~ Image taken with iPhone ~ That day wasn’t very kind to me, everything don’t seems to go right , from the cooking until the time to filed my recipe by a starts of taking the picture to make them just looks well presented. I suddenly had a surprisingly shock after I clicked to aim my setting of my food and then not long after the view finder shows unusual warning of error99, i would never have a thought that I will have this kind of problem since I owned my sweetheart, now its GONE , its DEAD I was so desperately looking the information regarding error99 here and afterwards I followed all the steps and it looks silence, lifeless, no chance of having fun on that day anymore What a day… It has been with me in the past five years, and it given so much thing to remember, time to time…I could not believe that this is happened to me. To let you know that I have been neglected from this blog due to my broken PC and during my pregnancy couples years back, the fact that I ...

  I should tell you that I can’t deny if someone asking me to repeat after she/he said Pangsit Kuah (wonton soup / dumpling soup) and my imaginations immediately stuffed with a bowl of lip-smacking soup. It content with super silky and tasty dumpling melt in the mouth and they would enough to swim in the beautiful chicken broth with the additional of slice spring onion on top as the crucial final flavour and it absolutely drive me crazy  This is one of the various Indonesian food using dumpling and sometime it can be served in a separately small bowl to accompany mie ayam ( chicken noodles ) , and the menu would call mie ayam komplit which mean ( Indonesian style special chicken noodles) I didn't do any special tweak to my pangsit kuah recipe, perhaps it the same recipe that you have at home. I purposely keep it  simple as possible as I want it remains the worth of characterize flavour inheritance of Chinese-Indonesian cuisine    ...

Ubi madu Cilembu ( Cilembu honey sweet potato ) is a cultivar of sweet potato from a local race origin ( Cilembu-Sumedang of  West Java ). These particular sweet potatoes are popular among the consumers since 1990's. They have certain high economic value as a distinctive flavour, sweet like honey, sticky and velvety as an interesting structure that is favoured by agricultural businesses and consumers Ubi madu Cilembu is more exceptional than other kind of local sweet potato as it creates sort of honey alike, tacky and sweet and it smells sugary if it oven roasted,  therefore ubi Cilembu also called as honey sweet potato. In addition to it taste very sugary, the raw honey sweet potato flesh color is also quite interesting where the skin and flesh are in vibrant ivory and then it turns to flushed- yellow once they are roasted.   The honey sweet potatoes are not suitable for deep-fried, because the high sugar content make it easy to burn as wel...

These guys are mostly sells by the street vendors in here, but not only in where I live now but also most places in Indonesia be familiar with, and the most amazing thing that people love them as a snack. The street vendor has their own unique way to alluring the spender of their vendible, by displaying all the different variety deed fried stuff in the wheelbarrow such are deep-fried sweet potato, banana fritter, deep-fried cheese cassava (singkong keju ), deep-fried stuffed tofu and vegetable fritter Some of them make it as attractive as possible by covering the top part of the push-cart with the glass screen window for the victims easy to know what they are selling. One of the brilliant thing that makes me impressed is that they have had spot on idea by painting the glass with the striking bright color font written as GORENGAN which mean “deep fried” Yes, this is definitely an oily stuff, the process through the deep frying which needed litters o...

  I love quick made dish, especially when the time so boundary but the home cooking should done to feed the hunger. Well, this is my another quick simple dish which I always dish up when I ran out idea and not so sure what to cook with the chunk beef tenderloin in the fridge. The process are include browned the meat and then shimmer slowly to cook it through, its not only sounds easy and simple but also very appetizing. The gravy is a perfect blend between black pepper and dark soy sauce as it certainly suitable dish during our rainy day at the moment. Serve with hot steam rice and the legendary sambal belachan, that all what my husband liked.                  Beef and potato stewed in black pepper-dark soy sauce Ingredients : 300gr beef tenderloin, medium thin slice 2 medium size potatoes cut into chunk 1 tbs black pepper corn, crush 3 tbs dark soy sauce--I used Yamasa dark soy sauce 600ml water ...

The dream finally has come through, this time after the long post, I happen to put up this dish to be one of most wanted topic I ever yearning. The side dish that I almost craving the most during my stay abroad which I couldn’t easily to find what would we called kangkung (water spinach) , how sad it was… I still remember how hard I settled my huge effort for not just giving up, I attempted to plant my own kangkung from the seeds which I got from Taiwan, but again the result of the kangkung after harvesting wasn’t pleased, they are somewhat unappealing looks nor the texture wasn’t gives the truthful kick. Most likely, the reason was because I plant them in the pot the fact which I believe in that a chance of growing up abundantly didn’t get enough room. This is a valuable lesson… Plecing kangkung is the side dish that is utterly brilliant, it goes well along with grilled chicken, grilled fish, deed fried fish, fried tofu and tempe or even fried salted f...