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My winning seafood dipping sauce and marinated always into Garlic chili lime, it’s more to the typical of Southeast Asia flavor. The sharp pungent flavor just representatives the region, appetizing at the same time refreshing! There is one thing that I absolutely love about Southeast Asian food, its the diversity of food which is create on its own magnetism. They are fascinated, unique taste and adventurous to people who try to discover interesting flavor in cooking. The rich culture of Southeast Asian food has become the tastiest food in the world! The very simple daily meals, elaborated feasts characterize all Southeast Asia culinary. The food of the Thais, Filipinos, Vietnamese, and Indonesians are among the most famous exotic creations. However, Thai food is the most popular cuisine coming from Southeast Asia, the complex flavor mixing between spicy, sour, sweet and salty just phenomenal! My recipe today is more like an appetizer especially ...

I feel my world was upside down, in the past two weekend I was down with the cold and what I hate the most were the signs as the virus attacked my immune system and somehow it’s really annoying! As I feel so much better today, so I decide to blog a recipe to share.  I really can’t imagine how I felt guilty as if not making something to bite for my son while he has his own time on his daily program, he love baby brainy video and of course never gets bored watching *barney over and over again, also he likes "Car" the movie ;) So I was thinking of making some easy appetizer for my son, Beef and mushrooms croquettes only for him to snack.   Well, I grew up eating croquettes (kroket kentang), a well known Indonesian snack that I believe for most people could homemade it because it is really easy. I like the croquettes when its serve with tauco sauce along with fresh green bird eye chilli to bite. My mother use to make a very good tauco sauce (ferm...

Deep fried stuffed tofu (Tahu isi) is a snack made from tofu stuffed with variants vegetables such cabbage, carrots and bean sprouts. This is another snack that most selling by the street food stall along with vegetable fritter also known as bala-bala, bakwan goreng and I've shared my vegetable fritters recipe in my previous post, you may check the recipe and the story out.  To me, everything homemade is always better, we can control and demand to suit for our healthy lifestyle. The fact, to tell you the truth that to make Tahu isi is through a deep-fried process which perhaps you wish to avoid. Well, I can’t say much about it, because occasionally we also need to just enjoy it and do so wisely.  Yet, Tahu isi has become a very popular snack among all Indonesian and it almost served with either fresh chilli or chilli sauce. To make Tahu isi is very easy and of course it takes patience, the processes would includes frying the tofu, making the filling and s...

The Idea of making this appetizer super easy is actually derived when I find out my days moving too fast. Everything falling into high-speed, I’m fully occupied with the housework and errands. Sometimes without I realized, by the next hour, the day calls for sunset, which mean I have to get ready to lay out the dinner for all of us.  The interesting part is when I’ve got dispensation from the daily duty, only if my husband having duty at work that required staying little longer, by then I could take my me-time  or having some fun together with my little man. I’ve always feel grateful to what a I have today, taking an important role as a mother and a wife. It couldn't be much better than having prepared some uncomplicated snack and the same time it tasted perfectly scrumptious. I always devoted to this recipe whenever I craved for it, it simple and required no tense. The only note should keep in mind is the marinated timing, it absolutely demand...

I wasn’t planning to make this kind of rustic dessert after I saw a quick look at my cooking book "Contemporary Balinese Asian Cooking ", its too appealing attractive not to note and not to give it a try. The striking ingredients were hooked me, I salivated over the picture and was suddenly inspired.  Pineapples mango sate palm sugar sago , it sounds exotic kind of rustic dessert, those pineapple and mango were threat onto bamboo skewer grill or pan sear, serves with palm sugar sago and topping with grated coconut. I believe that you would have imagined how the combo looks like :) For some reason, I decided to not present the palm sugar sago serve together with the fruits sate, I just want to have them as simple as that. The major preparations to this dessert that I hate the most is doing the carving on the pineapples, in order to removes the thousand black eyes on the exterior flesh, it such a pain for me. I wasn’t lucky enough on that day, because...

Tempe is my favorite food overall, a cake made from soybean and fermented, they are cheap and it taste just like meat. Reputedly to a story that I ever heard, some of them have regards Tempe only for poor people , the fact that they are wrong anyway. Tempe doesn’t deserve falsehood of rumour because Tempe is containing high protein.  By the way, there are always having words to described Tempe , a cake that has earthy smell, has succeed to amazed the world and of course it delicious. My Sate Tempe recipe is actually inspired by Vegetarian Food Combining recipe book which written in Bahasa Indonesia, Unfortunately the recipe inside has no picture included, it makes me totally out of thrilled.  The ingredients have engaged lots of spices, needed several hours of marinated and also mentioned and prefer peanut sauce for it serves.   For it reasons, I made my own way of sate tempe and serve them with my simply lip smacking sauce that hold s...