Cooking Tackle

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...

Suprisingly, tempe was purportedly indentical with poverty in Indonesia but nowadays, it no longer underestimated. It has become popular and well-liked worldwide and it takes special place into culinary star in many countries. I am proud to be an Indonesian for having tempe among my daily-life that often cook them in various way, moreover it inexpensive food which are pack of nutrients. Some time ago, when I was down to my my mom home town, I was learning how to make homemade spinach crakers (rempeyek bayam) and mungbeans mix with anchovies crackers (rempeyek kacang hijau dan ikan teri) through my mother. it was a great time, I and my mother had a chat within our memories, jokes and laughter adorned both. She shared tips, thought me how to do the trick and advised me with all her wise words of cooking. Because the time were not enough unfortunately, as well, there were so much plans going on until I forgotten to learn how to make tempe chips with h...

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...

Sayur lodeh is belongs within Javanese people and has widen throughout Indonesia . Its coconut milk-based soup contained of variant vegetable and then stewed together, it would absolutely great to be serves either as starter as it i might serves in a small clay pot or main course along with lontong (rice cakes) or steam rice. I purposely made Sayur Lodeh as vegetarian style otherwise you may cooked instead of vegetarian style for your desire by adding such ribs, meat, chicken or eggs. My favourite Sayur Lodeh would always vegetarian style, prefer not too creamy and then serves with pan-fried cob fish (pindang ikan tongkol) or tuna, oh yum…. Since ready made lontong (rice cakes) are easy to get and available at the traditional market at my place so I never make them from scratched, but to relieve your curiosity of rice cakes recipe, I was browsing and I found it here in Bahasa Indonesia I simply Translate accordingly, the reason that I choose the link for the st...

I had gone through a moment which I count the Tempe as a precious food to consume, driving miles to get the most wanted one and as an Indonesian living abroad of course its a craved food which exotic to have...and I had gone through the worst either, after the long run, regretted knowing that I have finally found out those Tempe unfortunately all sold out and taken by nearby neighbourhood, it such having a very bad day :( however, at the end of the day I have been relived the missing of the home country popular food which mainly source of protein, extraordinary humble and practically down-to-earth to most Indonesia people. But today, I am at where those Tempe easily can be found, at every corner store in this island, every side of the local market or even the roaming-peddler by a motorbike it some kind of recompense the were circumstances. As you would probably know that Tempe is derived from soybeans, it turns out into a cake form through a controlled ...