Okay, another pumpkin recipe. Hey it’s Halloween time…so no complaining please . This time I got the recipe from Lisa Magazine (German edition) with few modifications. Here we go…

For 4 people

Ingredients:

- 1 shallot
- 2 garlic
- 2 tbs oil
- 250gr jasmine rice (original: risotto rice. I never make risotto before so I don’t know if the rice is different though)
- 100 ml white wine
- 500 ml Maggi stocks
- 500 gr pumpkin meat
- 50 gr spinach
- 200 gr sweet korn
- 2 tbs butter
- 50 gr grated permesan
- salt and pepper

Direction:

1. Heat oven 180°
2. Chop shallot and garlic and sauté it. Add rice, stir
3. Add wine and Maggi’s water, salt and pepper. Mix it together and put it in oven for 15 min.
4. In a meantime dice pumpkin meat
5. After 15 mins, pick up the food from oven and put pumpkin and korn under the rice. Cook it again in oven for 15-25 minutes.
6. When it’s done, pick it up from oven, add spinach and butter. Stir
7. Add spinach, stir
8. Garnish it with cashew  nuts (original: pine nuts)

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

This time I think you really need to go to Asian shop if you like to cook it. As the name, this bitter melon is bitter. But if you cook it rightly, it won’t be that bitter. The bitterness even give sensational taste in your tongue And beware, what I cook here is pretty spicy!

Ingredients:

- 2 medium size bitter melons
- 3 cloves garlic, sliced
- 2 shallots, sliced
- 4 Thai chillies, sliced
- 1 teaspoon sweet soy sauce
- dried lizardfish, sliced
- salt
- 1 teaspoon Gandaria instant spice
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- ½ Knorr vegi stock (you can skip it)
- 1cm galangal, ground

Direction:

1. Cut bitter melon vertically and remove the stone
2. Slice bitter melon and put in bowl with hot water and salt. Leave it around 1 hour to reduce the bitter taste
3. Saute garlic, shallots, chillies and galangal
4. Add Gandaria instant spice
5. Add lizardfish, stirr
6. Put momordica inside, stir
7. Add soy sauce, salt, sugar and vegi stock
4. Stir until witted

In fact this is bloody easy…But one and only mistake I’ve made that I never make it by myself before! Always buy or take some for free for nasi goreng in street vendor all around Jakarta city. But since the pickled cucumber in German supermarket never have a success romance with my tongue, then its time for me to make some.

Ingredients:

- 1 Cucumber, diced (remove the middle part)

- 175 cc water

- 2 shallot, diced

- Chillies

- 2 tbs vinegar (depends on your taste)

- 100 gr sugar (depends on your taste)

- Salt

Direction:

- Mix cucumber, shallots and chillies and pour with salt. Leave it for one hour.

- Mix warm water with sugar and pour it to the veggies.

- Add vinegar, stir it.

- Put in fridge.

- Done.

I’m not really into bread. That’s why it’s kinda torture when I have to visit in laws and all day long I have to eat bread. And that breakfast, aah…I used to eat everything (everything!) for breakfast. Indonesian don’t have rule for breakfast, we can eat pizza, curry or chicken soup if we like. But here? Its always only bread (okay, they have many kind of breads), butter, jam, egg and cheese ( now I kinda miss English breakfast). So I have to be clever, I won’t feed my husband with rice in the morning. So, T´this is bloody simple. You can eat it with or without bread.

Ingredients:

- Boiled eggs, diced

- Fresh celery, chopped

- Salt and peppers

Direction:

Put eggs on the plate and pour with salt and peppers

My hubby didn’t like asparagus since kid. But once I made this wrapped asparagus, he lefts me only a few. Plus, he said the sauce is bloody lecker! Yay!

Ingredients:

- 500 gr white asparagus

- 2 table spoons flour

- Oil to fry

For Dough:

- 4 big table spoons flour

- 3 eggs

- 75gr grated parmesan cheese

- Sugar to taste

- Salt and pepper to taste

For Fruit Sauce:

- 2 sticks green onion, sliced

- Half sweet mango, diced

- 1 table spoons sweet mustard

- 3 table spoons vinegar

- 6 table spoons olive oil

- salt and pepper to taste

Direction:

1. Mix the dough with spoon

2. Put 2 table spoons flavor in a plate, roll asparagus on it before put in the dough as wrapper.

3. Fry in hot oil (or use deep fryer machine)

For fruit sauce, just simply mix all of them.