Simple Cake

Don’t know the official name of this cake. I name it simple cake cos it is so simple to make. Got the recipe from a friend which simply calls it yellow simple cake. I make it simpler with remove the yellow hehe…But the taste is really good. Just add a cup of tea and sit in balcony to enjoy the day.

Ingredients:

- 500 gr margarine
- 500 gr sugar
- 500 gr flour
- 10 eggs
- 1 sachet baking powder
- 1 sachet vanilla sugar

Direction:

1. Put margarine, sugar, eggs and vanilla in a bowl and mix it with mixer.
2. When the sugar already smooth mixed, add flour and baking powder until all mixed
3. Heat oven in 150° and bake it for one hour.

Tongseng (Indonesian Lamb Soup)

A refreshing soup. For my style, I add a load of lime leaves and peppers. And then eat it with hot rice. Aah..perfect!

Ingredients:

- 300 gr lamb meat
- 50gr cabbage, sliced in stripe
- Tomato, diced
- 2 lemongrasses, chopped
- 4 kaffir lemon leaves, sliced in thin stripe
- 6 Shallots, thiny sliced
- 4 cloves garlic, thiny sliced
- 1 tea spoon turmeric powder
- 2 tbs sweet soy sauce
- 1 tbs salty soy sauce
- 3 glass lamb consomme
– 3 tea spoons Sambal Oelek chillipaste
- Salt and Peppers
- 4 tbs oil
- Fried shallots for pouring (optional)

Direction:

1. Cook lamb a few minutes only to get the comsomme and then diced
2. Heat oil, saute shallots and garlic. Add chillipaste, lemongrass, meat, turmeric, salt and peppers
3. Add 3 glass of consomme, lime leaves and both soy sauces until meat tender
4. At the end, add cabbage and tomato
5. Pour fried shallots over when serve it

Elmali Kurabiye – Apple Cookies

There is a Turkish bakery around the corner of my school. They have quite good fresh Turkish bread. My favorite is bread with tasty potato inside and apple cookies. I tried so hard to remember the name of the apple cookie so I can browse it to get the recipe. So here we go

Ingredients:

For the skin:

- 1 egg
- 250gr margarine
- 250gr flour
- 2 tbs yogurt
- 2 tbs canola oil
- 2 tbs sugar
- 1 sachet baking powder
- sugar powder

For the filling:
- 3 Apples, peeled
- ¼ tsp cinnamon powder (originally 1 tsp, but I don’t really like cinnamon taste)
- Crushed walnut (optional, I don’t use it either)
- Sugar

Direction:

1. Mix all the ingredients except sugar powder, knead for around 5 minutes then cover the dough with a clean cloth and set aside.
2. Grate apples, cook it with sugar and cinnamon and then cook it for about 10 minutes over low-medium heat.

3. Cut the dough into 3 pieces and then flatten each doughs with a roller around 3mm thickness. Then cut it into 8 pieces like the photo below. Put 1 tsp filling on the wide side and roll it up.

4. Pre-heat oven to 180°C, use baking paper on the baking tray and bake the cookies around 30 minutes.
5. Pour sugar powder over the cookies when it’s done.

Avocado Dip

Bloody easy. A good friend of tortilla chips in weekend when you’re not partying out!

Ingredients:
- Avocado (s)
- Garlic, crushed or garlic powder
- Salt
- Peppers

Directions:
Shred avocado (s) with spoon until fine. Add garlic, salt and peppers as you wish. Done.

Dadar Gulung (coconut pancake)

We have many kind of snacks in Indonesia. The traditional snacks is called Jajan Pasar. Jajan means snack and pasar means market (more into traditional market). Dadar gulung is one of those Jajan Pasar. Easy to make and always served in family or neighborhood gathering.

Ingredients:

For the skin:

- 150gr Flour
- 1 egg
- 250ml coconut milk
- Salt
- Green color for food (originally it supposed to be Suji leaf)
- Margarine to spread on pan

For the filling:
- 150 gr fresh grated coconut (if you buy the instant one, pour little bit hot water on it)
- 100gr Java dark brown sugar
- 100ml water
- Salt

Direction:

For the skin:

Mix all the ingredients except margarine into smooth batter. Spread thiny margarine into 20cm pan and make pancake with 2 tbs batter. No need to turn around the pancake.

For the filling:

Mix all ingredients, cook in low heat. Constantly stirred for around 5 minute the mixture is dry.

Finishing:

Put around 2 teaspoon filling on the pancake and wrap it.

Apple Pancake

This is our favorite breakfast menu. Easy, fast and taste good; Apple pancake.

Ingredients:

- 250 gr flour
- 4 eggs
- 400ml plain milk
- Salt
- Sugar powde
- Melted chocolate
- Oil
- 1 apple. Thin sliced

Direction:

1. Make batter from flour, egg and milk. Blend until smooth.
2. Heat oil and pour batter into pan like omelet. I like it a little bit dick
3. Pour sliced apple over it
4. Serve with sugar powder or chocolate.

Merry Christmas and Happy New year!

We had hot oil fondue evening on Christmas’s eve. Our menus are different kind of meats, sausages, vegetables, sauces plus chicken and turkey nugget for the kid. Not forget to mentioned Russian salad which always gets extra point from people who taste it

Merry Christmas and Happy New year…

Best wishes for health and happiness in 2009!

Russian Salad

I never interested to make my own salad before. Salad in supermarket is pretty yummi already but Friday evening suddenly Monika asked me to make salad for party in the next day afternoon. The first homemade salad occurred in my mind is Russian. Got the recipe from my friend in Netherland. No she’s not Russian J

And yippiee! Everybody love it! I got a lot of good feedback from the guest! )
Thanx for the recipe Lily!

Ingredients:

- 2 cans sweet corn
- 1 bottle pickle cucumber (gurken in a bottle)
- 2 bottle mayonnaise
- Salt
- Chicken fillet, cut it into square
- Boiled potato, cut it into square
- Boiled carrot, cut into square
- 6 Boiled egg sliced
(I skipped the beans)

Direction:

Mix all of them and put it in the fridge.
Served chill.

Chicken Spätzle

That day I was planning to make Indonesian chicken noodle from Pepy’s recipe (but not the vegetarian version) for the second time-because it’s bloody yummy. When I just finished making the chicken mushroom for the noodle, suddenly I had a phone call and had to go quick somewhere. When I back home, ran to the kitchen at once to finish the rest of chicken noodle processing. But, hey…it’s already finish! But not like what I expected! My husband was kinda hungry and saw my chicken mushroom, he had idea to mix it with Spätzle. Ha! Not bad idea, we can even still call it chicken noodle in different style. It’s much simpler and also delicious!

Ingredients:

- 250 gr Spätzle
- 250 g chicken thigh, cubed
- 150 g sliced mushroom
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 onion, sliced
- sweet soy sauce
- salty soy sauce
- salt and ground white pepper as desired
- 1 spoon oil for sauteing
- scramble cheese
- Chilies, sliced (additionally)

Direction:

1. Boil spätzle. Add a little bit salt and oil in the boiling water
2. When its done, drain and set aside
3. Sauté garlic and onion until fragrant. Add mushroom and chicken, stir
4. Add sweet soy sauce, salty soy sauce salt and pepper. Cook until all spices are absorbed and is done but keep the stove on
5. Add the spätzle into the chicken mushroom, stir evenly for around 5 minute
6. Add chilies if you like
7. Put in a plate and pour with scramble cheese

Meat Stir Fry

Since we moved to a new place, I didn’t really cook properly again. Well, still busy with house renovation and the proper kitchen will be delivered in around next 5 weeks still. So, this is one of my fast-making plus delicious recipes

Ingredients:

- 250 gr beef meat, boiled, sliced
- green peas, cut around 1,5 cm
- salty soy sauce
- sweet soy sauce
- pepper powder
- instant spices (maggi or knorr)
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 shallot, fine cut
- 2 tbs oil to fry
- 2 sesame oil
- bean sprouts

Direction:

1. Sauté garlic until fragrant and add shallot
2. Add meat
3. Add green peas and bean sprouts, stir
4. Pour sesame oil, sweet soy sauce and salty soy sauce
5. Add instant spices and pepper
6. Stir until done