Yesterday I was really tired even I slept away after Maghrib prayer. I woke up around midnight and I was really hungry. I didn’t have any rice in my rice cooker, and also no instant noodle. I decided to make pasta with a simple sauce. So I made the egg in purgatory, which is egg cooked in a tomato sauce.
You can find the recipe here. (I use linguine instead of bread)
So we have sleepover night again at Sre’s apartment. No special occasion though 😛 First we cooked kuah ayam madu (chicken with honey sauce), by using an instant product from Malaysia. But in our opinion, the tomato flavor was much stronger than the honey. Other menu was simple stir fry of vegetables. Then we made bakpao, which finished at midnight 😆 The next day we made green tea hotteok, a sweet Korean pancakes.
It has been a long time I wanted to try this recipe, and finally I did it today. Well, apple and cinnamon are a nice combination. 😀
You can find the recipe here.
I still go on with a simple cooking. I think salmon is the easiest fish to process yet very delicious. I often cook salmon, but what else I can do with it? I need something different, hehe. Then this sambal dabu-dabu, a sambal from Manado, came to my mind. It’s really simple. I used chili, tomato, onion, lemon juice, salt, and sugar, then finally put a lil bit of hot oil into the mixture. Spicy, sour, and fresh sambal. 😀 And for the salmons, I just marinated them with salt and pepper, and sauté them for a few minutes.
Recently I feel I don’t have any idea on what to cook. In the other hand, I have a long dessert list I would like to try. Sigh. I still don’t have any will to try new recipe, so I choose to do simple cooking. And this japanese fried chicken was my choice yesterday.
You can find the recipe here. (I skip sake)
Oh my God, it’s almost 1 month I didn’t update this Posterous. It feels like really looong time for me. Last month I was busy finishing my thesis. It wasn’t that I had no time to cook or to eat new food in the restaurant, but I had no will to do both. Sigh. And finally I finished my thesis defense on February 8th. That day was also thesis submission day for Sre. Then we arranged eating out together, also with Nova. Actually we planned to eat at Sweet Paradise, but it’s already closed on 8 pm, huhu. Then we moved to a Thai restaurant. I ordered Pad Woon Sen, which was almost like bihun goreng in the street food in Bandung :)). Sre ordered Pad Thai and Nova ordered Tom Yum.
So this was my dinner tonight, kaki furai or deep fried oyster. I avoided writing “kaki” on the title since it means “foot” in Bahasa Indonesia, hihi. But kaki in Japanese could mean oyster (kanji: 牡蠣) or persimmon (kanji: 柿). I first ate kaki furai at Gusto restaurant a year ago. Then some days ago I saw a youtube video on how to make kaki furai, really easy imo. I happened to find the oyster at supermarket yesterday, so I tried to make it. I guess oysters are not available a whole year, so I can not make it whenever I want. And in Gusto it is a seasonal menu. The video also showed how to make the tartar sauce, but I didn’t make the sauce because I still have some that I bought at supermarket.
You can find the recipe here.
Yesterday I watched a youtube video about how to make microwave cookies. It is really easy and quick, so I feel I should give it a try. I remembered that I have white chocochips so I planned to use them. Since white chocochips will be invisible in the basic recipe, I modified the recipe into a chocolate cookies. The formula is: substitute 10% of the flour with cocoa powder (and these also works for cake recipe). I have 500W microwave, so I set the time exactly the same with the recipe. Wait until the cookies cold, and they came out really crunchy. Nice quick snack 😀
You can find the recipe here.
Today I took the last lesson from my cake course at ABC Cooking Studio. Among the available menus this month, I guess other menus mainly contain making cream or cake mixture by using mixer. I wanted to learn different technique on making cake and therefore I chose this menu. Apparently this cake (or cookies?) didn’t need mixer and egg. I could say that the basic mixture is like pie dough. We used the same dough for these two. The Carré Alsacien, the sweet one, ended with the mixture of sliced almond, dry raspberries, honey, cream, and butter plus raspberry jam on the top of the circle shaped dough. Salé Stick, the savory one, as its name (“salé” is French word for salt), is a stick with rock salt plus grated cheese as topping. Different from my previous lesson, today we got a nice box for bringing these home. It is look like I bought it in a shop, isn’t it? 😀
Happy New Year 2013 everyone! Finally we — Sre, Nova, and I — executed our plan to cook and stay overnight together. Our first menu was tofu hamburg, the same menu I learned at Survival Cooking III event. We chose it because Sre couldn’t attend the event but she wanted to try the recipe. Then we made simple salad from vegetables, smoked salmon, and 1000 island salad dressing. The next experiment, my choice, was sweet potato mont blanc. Many efforts were needed to make this dessert, especially the sweet potato cream, haha. The last one was fried tofu, Nova’s idea. 全部, 美味しかった. 😀