Beef Balls // Bakso Daging

This turns out to be yummy and simple. can be use on Bakso (Meatballs soup) or Mie Ayam.

Source: Buku Seri Menu Istimewa - Yasaboga terbitan Gramedia Pustaka Utama

Ingredients:
250 gr Ground Beef
125 gr Tapioca flour (I use breadcrumbs)
25 cc water
1/2 sdm salt (or to your taste)
2 garlic
1/4 ground white pepper

Direction:

• Grind garlic in pestle. 
• Put the ground beef in a bowl mix with garlic, salt, pepper, tapioca flour (or breadcrumbs). Mix it well until all is combined. keep mixing until you can form a little balls.
• Boil the water and then turn the heat on low
• drop the beef balls in the water. once it afloat then it's cooked.

Pangsit Goreng // Fried Wonton

This is to accompany my Mie Ayam (Noodle Soup with Chicken Topping). Pangsit can be fried or steamed of boiled in hot water. I didn't use exact measurement so please go with your approximate and preferred taste.

Source: Buku Seri Menu Istimewa - Yasaboga terbitan Gramedia Pustaka Utama


Ingredients:
- 1 cup of Diced Chicken
- 1/2 cup of Minced Prawn
- 1 tsp tapioca flour
- 3 Garlic, grind
- 1 spring onion, finely chopped
- Salt and white pepper
- Ready to use Wonton Skin 
- Water or egg whites to glue the wonton skin

Directions:
1. Mix all ingredient (except the wonton skin)

2. Take 1 small teaspoon of the filling and put it in the center of the wonton skin. Wet the sides of the wonton and fold it to a triangle. Then twisted it to make a shape of a boat.

3. Deep fry it for fried Wonton or Steamed or drop it on hot water until cooked.

Eggplant / Aubergine in Sweet Soy Sauce // Terong Saus Kecap

This is lunch today. We're staying at my mom and dad's house and with Tania very fussy we have no time to go to the market. What I can find in the fridge is Eggplant or Aubergine plus some Indonesian red onion and Garlic. After rummaging for a while I found some Sweet Soy sauce, seasoned flour (tepung bumbu serba guna) and ground white pepper. That'll do I think. So here's a very simple and quick dish.

Ingredients:

3 medium size Eggplant - cut to your liking for 1 cm thickness

5 Indonesian red onion

4 Garlic

4 table spoon of Sweet Soy Sauce

a handful of Seasoned Flour

Salt, ground white pepper

1/2 cup Oil for frying

Direction:

1. Crushed 1 garlic and mix with with a little water and salt to rub over the eggplant. Make sure it cover it all but not soaking it. Set aside for 15 minutes.
2. In a pestle (if you have one or food processor), grind together 5 Indonesian red onion and 3 garlic. Set aside
3. Heat the oil in a wok. Put the seasoned flour on a plate and dip the eggplant and fried it for 5 minutes on medium heat just until the coating is golden.  
4. The sauce: Saute the ground onion in 2 tablespoon of oil (from the oil used for frying the eggplant) until fragrant. Then in with the sweet soy sauce, salt and ground white pepper. Taste and combine well.
5. Arrange the fried eggplant on plate and then pour the sauce over the eggplant. Ready to serve.

Simple and Versatile Choc Puds

When we were living in UK, we were a bit confused at the beginning whenever Brits said “we shall have Puds after this”. Assuming Puds as the pudding we usually have in Indonesia, we were surprised to learn that Puds can refer to any kind of sweet dessert. So soft and hot chocolate cupcake can also mean Puds.

In Indonesia when you say pudding it will mean something similar to Jelly or Gelatin. Our Pudding is made of Seaweed extract unlike gelatine which derived from the collagen inside animals' skin and bones (Wikipedia) 

There are very sophisticated way of making Pudding but one very simple way I know consist of only 4 to 5 ingredients which you don’t need an exact measurement that can sometimes drive you crazy. My mother taught me and my brother how to make this back when we were in elementary school.

So if you are living abroad, get yourself to Asian store and look for something that look like this or similar. This is just an example of what I like to use. They come in color so to be safe choose the plain one, or chocolate if you want to make chocolate pudding.

OK, Here’s how to make one. Oh and… measuring wise – just go with what you feel like adding. This is very versatile.

Ingredients:

• 1 packet of Agar-Agar – the chocolate flavour one
• 8 glass of water – The packet will ask you to put 4 glass or 500ml of water but I usually add ¾ of it’s amount to soften the pudding to a melt-in-your-mouth texture.
• A cup of Milk you desire – the more the creamier – If you have Chocolate Milk it will be perfect too.
• Several Tablespoon of Sugar – You decide the level of sweetness
• 2 Tbsp of Powdered chocolate or 2 chunks of cooking chocolate (melted) – Optional

Directions:

1. Put the water in a medium size pan, add the sugar and milk (and the powdered or melted chocolate if your are using). Stir until sugar dissolve.
2. Add the agar-agar packet and stir well until all combine without any lumps.
3. Put it on the stove – medium heat and keep on stirring in circular motion. Never stop stirring or else the bottom will stick.
4. When it is bubbling, take it off the stove and then pour into mold.

Note and Tips:

1.  If you are using Plain (no Color) Agar-Agar and you want to make chocolate Pudding, then the addition of powdered chocolate or the use of chocolate milk is a must (or else how can we call it chocolate pudding when it’s not chocolate.
2. If you are using Plain (no Color) Agar-Agar you can alternatively make a vanilla pudding. Just use plain milk and add some vanilla essence or vanilla pods.
3. Wet the mold before pouring the hot pudding mix. Just run some water on the inside of the mold and empty it again. 

Special Fried Rice // Nasi Goreng Special

Recipe wise, there nothing special about it. What makes this fried rice special is that, It was made with love for my brother Tony. I made this last Sunday for our breakfast and for Tony's Bento Box. He was serving 2 Church service celebrations back-to-back, the 9 am and 12 pm. So he needed food to 'survive' the lunch time.

Here's a quick and simple recipe (or so I think it is). The measurement for the ingredients can be add or take away as you like. Anyway, this recipe is usually measure with 'feeling'. SO if you feel like adding things up then add. etc

To Make 5 serving

Ingredients:
10 Shallot or Indonesian red onion - Finely diced
8 Garlic - finely diced
2 tbsp of Chili Sauce
4 tbsp of Tomato Ketchup
2 tbsp of Fish Sauce
2 tbsp Soy Sauce
Few squirts of Indonesian Sweet Soy Sauce (about 5 to 6 Tbsp or more if you like)
5 servings of cooked white rice (left over rice is equally fine)
Optional Addition:
A cup of Sweet Corn
A cup of Diced Carrot
A handful of chopped Sausage
Scrambled eggs

Direction:

1. Heat some oil in a wok. Sautee shallot and Garlic until fragrant.
2. In with the sauces, chilli sauce, tomato ketchup, soy sauce, fish sauce, and sweet soy sauce. Mix well until a bit bubbly.
3. In with the rice the additions- i use chicken sausage, sweet corn and diced carrot. -- What i usually do is to take the wok off the stove to mix the rice well and everything well without the risk of burning it on the heat -- Once it is mixed well (you should be see any white colored rice anymore). Put it back on the low heat and continue stiring for about 2 to 3 minutes to warm the rice again. 
4. Serve hot - Suggestion: serve it with shrimp crackers and fresh cucumber. In the picture I only have rempeyek (indonesian sidedish)

Bola-bola Ikan Menyamar

Yang paling seru dari masakan ini selain dimakan adalah namanya. Hehehehe... Padalah ini resep-resepan buat menyelamatkan sisa ikan 2 hari yang lalu (tapi masih baik lho). Ini masih edisi proyek hari hujan bersama mertua. Secara Ambon bulan May ini hujan tak berhenti terus...
Oh ya, bumbu2 bisa disesuaikan dengan banyaknya ikan dan selera sendiri saja.


Bahan:
Beberapa Potong Ikan Goreng - bisa yang baru atau bisa yang sudah dari kemarin. Kami pake 6 potong ikan
2 buah Tahu
1 butir Telur
5 butir Bawang Merah - Rajang dan goreng
4 butir Bawang Putih - Kupas dan goreng utuh
3 cabe merah besar - boleh tambah cabe kecil untuk tingkat kepedesan yang diinginkan
Daun Seledri atau Peterseli secukupnya - Rajang halus
Garam
Ketumbar
Lada

Cara Membuat:

1. Bersihkan ikan dari tulangnya. Giling halus di cobek.
2. Haluskan tahu dengan garpu lalu campur dengan ikan giling
3. Haluskan bumbu: B. Merah goreng, B. Putih goreng, Cabe merah, garam dan ketumbar. 
4. Campurkan bumbu halus dengan ikan dan tahu tadi
5. Masukan 1 butir telur, lada dan daun seledri.
6. Campur rata 
7. Pulung adonan menjadi bola-bola kecil lalu goreng dalam minyak yang banyak hingga matang.

Putu Ayu

Beberapa hari ini hujan terus. Bosan juga dirumah terus. Kebetulan mertuaku mengusulkan untuk membuat kue putu ayu. Maka jadilah proyek hari hujan kami hari ini. Kue Putu Ayu.... ternyata mudah membuatnya... selamat mencoba.

Sumber Resep: Resep Mertua

Bahan:
2 cup  Tepung Terigu
1 butir kelapa agak muda yang diparut memanjang. Sisihkan 1 cup di wadah terpisah
1 cup  Santan (dari kelapa parut diatas) yang disaring dengan 5 lembar daun pandan parut
1 cup  Gula Pasir
4 btr    Telur
1 sdm  SP
1 sdt    Vanilla essence
Beberapa tetes pewarna hijau (jika perlu dan jika suka) - kami pakai pasta pandan
Garam secukupnya

Cara Membuat:

1. Campur kelapa parut yang disisihkan tadi dengan garam secukupnya - kira-kira 2 sdt garam
2. Kocok telur dan gula sampai mengembang lalu tambahkan SP
3. Masukan Tepung terigu dan santan secara selang-seling
4. Tambahkan Vanilli dan pewarna
5. Tuang dalam cetakan yang sudah di masukan kelapa parut
6. Kukus dalam dandang selama 15 menit. 
7. Keluarkan dari cetakan dan dinginkan.