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Among other Indonesian food this is one of my favourite “Pepes Tongkol” ( steamed-grilled spicy cob fish wrapped in banana leaves) I was extremely lucky when the first time I've got the recipe from my mom, listening over her explanations how to make a great Pepes Tongkol , it was truly exiting day In the first time making, it turned just fine, to be honest I didn’t quite satisfied with the result, the fact that my mom pepes tongkol was the best, no way I can beat her. After a view trial and more experiments until I find it as good as the one my mom made, perhaps its nearly close to a perfect one, I am very happy though... Noted what she said, grind the chilli using stone made mortar and pestle *cobek, unfortunately I don’t have one and I have not decide to get one yet, it should be very soon… I just process the chili through an electric grinder somehow it gaves almost to an ideal one. Making pepes tongkol commonly using pindang tongkol *evaporated processing ...

After a quite sometimes I finally manage to make acar, the preparations it self is just easy as turning your palm, but I must have to say that this stuff should always remain in my chiller, It’s a great to be a stand by complement   How would I enjoy a plateful of Mie Goreng (fried noodles ) without acar:)      Acar (pickles) is a way of preserving foods by using vinegar, seasons with salt and sugar, it sounds basic but its really shooting, the collaborations between the flavour and texture are on the button. Usually I made ​​ my pickles just a simple one, using cucumbers, carrot, shallot and green chilli, store in the jar and refrigerated, the taste infused perfectly. As acar served as a side dish, its goes well with such a nasi goreng ( fried rice) or mie goreng (fried noodles) ACAR Indonesian  vegetable   pickle Ingredients 1 big size kyuri cucumber--deseeds / diced ...

-->  Every Indonesian has different way of making Pepes Tahu, some of them prefer the method by mashing the Tofu and then combine with preferable spices. To me, its really doesn't matter because they are still appetizing and somehow become my all time favourite. I personally like my pepes tahu to be steam then grilled, diced the tofu instead of mashing them, spicy and a bit sourish. It does sound mouth-watering… --> Pepes Tahu   Steam-Grilled spicy tofu wraped in banana leaves Makes 5 wraps Ingredients 6 blocks tofu-diced 3 tbs chili paste 1 candle nuts 3 shallots 7-8 blimbing wuluh substitute tomato- slices Bunch of lemon basil ( daun kemangi ), pick the leaf out from the stem Salt Banana leaves Tooth picks Directions Grind candle nuts and shallots in a mortar pestle to paste,  mix the chili in then seasons with salt. In a bowl, combine diced tofu, chili paste mixture and lemon basil, stir gentee...

Sambal ikan bilis (malaysian dried anchovies sambal) Its actually to accompany nasi lemak (malaysian coconut milk rice) Nasi Lemak is the de-facto national dish of Malaysia. Nasi Lemak is usually served in the morning as breakfast. The toppings include anchovies sambal, hard-boiled eggs, fried fish and shrimp. Other common toppings include roasted peanuts and cucumber slices. (by Rasa Malaysia) She's one of a great cook I have ever known, she share her truly authentic Malaysian cuisine and I have no doubt to her Malaysian recipes. This is the trustworthy sambal ikan bilis ( dried anchivies sambal) that I have been relay on for My homemade Malaysian Nasi lemak I followed her recipe exactly, the fact, only the steps which refer to “Rinse the dried anchovies and drain the water. Fry the anchovies until they turn light brown and put aside”,  instead of frying,  I  rubbed the dried anchovies with oil all over and put them in the oven until tu...

We had shifting to the north side of Goa, now we are staying here until end of August while waiting of ON season in Goa buzz again at the beginning of September. Our previously resident is in the south of Goa the fact is about 1 ½ hrs driving by road to the North, since we both had being our self “moving company” wink, It was pretty exhausted for us doing packing and unpacking. Now we are staying at one of the resort which where my Husband working **for free! its totally awesome, ha ha We have got T1 studio type of villa which has one bed-room, living-room, kitchen and two balconies, then again, it is quite sufficient and comfy for both of us as we have to hang about during monsoon season. Yes! I know my Blog page was quite dull and boring during our move about, I really have no chance doing blogging, I was fall of sick because of tiredness, another issue was we had to set back our internet connections which from broad-band within in the high speed to a pretty tortoise speed, ha! Now...