Cooking Tackle

I warp up Soto Ayam (Classic Indonesian aromatic chicken soup) to be the beat of today posting.  I have finally made it uncovered after it just being a plan and writing it recipe for blog--on and on, in fact, this time it has been exposed and proudly inserted in my label. What the special about Soto Ayam then? Typical Indonesian aromatic chicken soup that never ever make me get bored and always won me among other home-cooking dishes :)    A bowl of heaven, aromatic, tasty and delicious, it serves with a few crucial garnishes such simple sambal chilli, the sharp scent of Indonesian celery (seledri) , tantalizing crispy fried onions and drizzled with lime juice to bright the soup, its totally lip-smacking! Endless... As you may know that Soto is Classic Indonesian chicken soup , its aromatic delicious. It can be serve on its own, as starter or main course along with steam rice or rice cakes (lontong) and the garnishes absolutely completed the w...

Last week we were going to "Dapur Pasundan" restaurant to have dinner (Dapur  is Kitchen and Pasundan is Sundanese), it was without a plan, our curiosity was because at every time we have passing by the place, there are always packed with people, having either lunch or dinner. For that reason we have been thought that it must be nice food, without further thinking we have just give it a try and decided on the feast that they might wonderfully have. I ordered a set of nasi timbel komplit (Typical Sundanese combo with companion of fluffier rice wrapped in banana leaves so that the aroma of wilted banana leaf gives fragrant to the rice) with compliment of sayur asem.  I immediately realized that has quite timed I did not make my sayur asem until I had the compliment on that night, it just good remainder as call to mind, then I listed my sayur asem afterwards before it forgotten.  There are few variation of sayur asem, the well-known refreshing vegetable dish...

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...

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 heart pumpkin so is my little man, at all times tempted when the seasons filled with the bright yellow with the sexy curve and appealing shape, it stunning ! The rich flavour after it cooked is incredible creamy somewhat goes well with the natural sweetness. Since I have vegetable stock remain in my fridge, I look forward to make my pumpkin soup, imagining the delicious soup full of flavour, hearty and its sure to pleasant the satisfying I get used to with the recipe from Jamie Oliver here , all ingredients are made easy but this time I adapted the recipe with what i have in hand and it turn out equally tasty.   Pumpkin soup         Adapted from Jamie oliver and altered by me Ingredients: 400gr pumpkin, cut to chunks ½ onion--chopped 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1 sprig of fresh rosemary, leaves picked 700 ml vegetable stock or chicken stock will do Sea salt and freshly ground black pe...