This is an Indonesian dish originally from Manado, Sulawesi. It’s very spicy but the taste is layered from hot and spicy to the sweet and sour. You could smell the fragrant of lemon from the lemon-grass and lime. Served it with warm white rice and stir fry water spinach. Ingredients: 10 red pepper 10 bird…
Category: From the kitchen
Ayam Gulung Ham Saus Mentega – Naked Rolled Chicken Cordon Bleu Chinese Style with Butter Sauce
This is just a variation of Chinese-Indonesian Ayam Goreng Mentega and chicken cordon bleu. And it turned out very good. Ingredients: 4 chicken breast fillet, flattened lemon juice from 1 lemon salt pepper worchestire sauce chinese cooking wine 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil 4 slices of ham 1 cup cooked spinach 1/2 cup shredded cheddar…
Banana Bread
I searched on the internet for this recipes and after some trial and error in my lab, which is my kitchen, I came up with this nice and moist banana bread recipe. This is my husband favorite, he doesn’t like any kind of nuts so I don’t use that. I add raisins sometimes, or chocolate…
Blueberry Coffee Cake
Again my husband is a blueberry lovers. So I came up with this blueberry coffee cake as a variation of his breakfast menus. I use bundt cake pan instead of a basic round pan. Tried it once and he keeps asking for more :). Ingredients: 1 cup fresh or canned (drained) blueberries 1 cup milk…
Hainan Chicken Porridge
I always love the hainan chicken rice. Never thought about this chicken porridge until one of my friend from Malaysia cooked this for us. He’s a great cook, we went to the mountain with him and he just pampered us with all the dishes he prepared, and it’s all quick and easy, not to…
Kue Pisang / Nagasari / Banana Rice Pudding
Indonesian snacks I grew up with. Made with rice flour and coconut milk, with plaintain banana slice filling then wrapped in banana leaves and steamed. Jajanan pasar yang ternyata gak repot bikinnya…gurih … Ingredients: 1 lbs rice flour 2 1/2 oz corn starch 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon of salt 5 pieces pandanus…
Pad Thai
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons tamarind paste or substitute ¾ cup boiling water 3 tablespoons fish sauce 1 tablespoon rice vinegar 3 tablespoons sugar ¾ teaspoon cayenne pepper 4 tablespoons peanut or vegetable oil 8 ounces dried rice stick noodles, about 1/8 inch wide (the width of linguine) 2 large eggs ¼ teaspoon salt 12 ounces medium…
Cake cake cake Galore
Got orders for cakes that all happened to be for Friday (yesterday). Gladly not all of them custom cakes. One mermaid cake was ordered base on trade. This is the second time I do this with this lady who is so crafty and good with sewing machine. So the first one was the Spiderman Cake…
Organizing Step 2 in process – Snack Packs
I could not start my pantry and kitchen organizing today since my plastic containers won’t be here until Tuesday. So in order to keep my organizing power alive I decided to keep on working little by little. I decided to do our own snack packs for my son. So off we went to the stores…
Organizing
I so can’t wait for this weekend! Planning on organizing the whole house. Yes that’s the plan :). I know I know.. it’s better to take 1 step at a time. But these pinterest ideas are so tempting. I can’t wait to have my laundry room or my pantry or the whole house all organize…
