Cooking Tackle

I am getting to know about the common Indonesia dish called soto by a reading, soto is a traditional Indonesian aromatic soup. Knowing that there are several types of soto in Indonesia and each has a way of different presenting. The exclusive part is that every regions in Indonesia has its own type of soto soup with such satisfaction additional, for example soto ayam madura (chicken soto) its typically serve with rice vermicelli, boil egg and prawn cracker (kerupuk), while soto lamongan has additional of bean sprouts or it might has some shredded raw cabbage too as added , another one is the famous soto betawi is coconutty base soup, typically serve with emping melinjo (bitter yet delicious cracker) and fresh tomato and still many more varieties of Indonesian soto. I cook my favorite soto at least twice a month, because we all love soupy stuff. This time I did some adaptations to my soto daging in view of my perspective, spice mixture created bravely to h...

Growing up in such tropical country yet beautiful is a blessed to me as well as tropical climate and archipelagic geography support to have wealth agriculture, a unique flora and fauna. This is my Indonesia , a place I always cheer up to live at, with all traditional culture identities, characteristic natural resources and diversity range of Indonesian food. One of timeless tropical fruit I always desire is soursop as commonly called as Sirsak in Indonesia language. Es sirsak/soursop ice is one of my topmost beverage since then, a drink which brought me an everlasting childhood memories when it is seasonal.  Soursop usually eaten raw when it ripens, the fruit has very pleasing scents and refreshing sourish taste as improvement to the appetite. I just found out a reading says that the soursop leaf are include as alternatively herbal medicine to kill the cancer cells and according to a source that soursop fruit it self is strongly gives the effect of anti- tumor /cancer as...

Pepes is always counts as a great deal to the lists of my favorite side dishes menu, as I devoted to a fish especially if it cook in spicy outcome. This is my other pepes recipe which is I make it different from my other pepes recipe before I call it as Pepes tongkol bumbu kuning “ spicy cob fish coated in yellow aromatic paste wrapped in banana leaves” I put all my effort to make them even more than delicious and gives value to my lunch *of course I eating using my bare finger Caring to have a look my other Pepes recipes? please do the click of below links: ~ Spicy Tofuwrapped in banana leaves ~ SpicyCob fish coated with aromatic red paste wrapped in banana leaves  You might not interested to my entire forewords after most probably seeing all my Pepes photos :)) and perhaps all you need only to know the recipe and curious all about it. Well, I give you right through to the end and satisfying recipe plus methods as I prepare everything for...

Rawon is a traditional beef soup originally from Surabaya *capital city of east java province of Indonesia, its actually very rich, thick and deep-dark colour soup base because the used of keluak/keluwek nuts as natural coloring. The colour of the soup might makes you wonder or else it might triggered you off to have it, the fact to be honest it absolutely scrumptious. frankly , I would rather never be bothered to cook   rawon on my own which using my own concoction spices from scratch , of course it might quotes from beloved mother recipe , from cookbook or browse around the world web-net. I fancy buying a instant-homemade spice paste available on the market and cook it, as simple as that… and most importantly, I do not need to have an headache how to correctly picked of the keluak/keluwek nut which is the main ingredients to make rawon, it's absolutely pretty tricky to choose the right one :( I said instant-homemade rawon paste:) it is homemade...

I had my first taste of halloumi cheese salad for almost five years ago *oh goodness and I totally recalled vibrantly of having it in Dubai but i dont remember what the restaurant name *i am not that good in remembering places haha! The simple thing i could remember is the restaurant surroundings, it was a very nice and posh restaurant, it designed so cozy, both interior and locations would tell us that it’s really up-class place to hang out and pamper our taste bud, oh and the price too, gosh gosh gosh...the other thing was the superb view from the restaurant which makes the place even classy, it overlook Burj Al Arab-Dubai , alongside human-made canal look alike Venice waterways inclusive few gondolas were pack with tourists, i think the idea to make something ala Venice touched were execute and compose brilliantly, I was impressed as a tourist. The silly part of me that I couldn't remember at all how is halloumi taste like, nah! *such a joker right… I to...