Let’s cook ~ Chicken Egg Tofu Soup

17 November 201518 November 2015Leave a comment

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I love the flavor of garlic and ginger that are sautéed in sesame oil. It’s appetizing. Today I cooked Chicken Egg Tofu Soup… a simple, yet healthy, soup J

Ingredients:

* 150 gr chicken boneless breast, diced cut

* 2 pcs soft tofu (tahu sutera), diced cut

* half piece carrot, sliced as matchsticks

* witloof (sawi putih)

* 2 eggs, lightly shake

* spring onion, sliced

* celery, sliced

* onion, chopped

* garlic, chopped

* 1,5 cm ginger, sliced

* half piece tomato, cut

* salt

* white pepper

* 2 table spoons sesame oil

* 1500 ml water

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Cooking steps:

* sauté garlic, onion and ginger in 2 tablespoons of sesame oil, stir until it smells good

* add chicken, stir until the chicken meat turns to white

* add carrot, stir 2 minutes

* add salt and white pepper

* add water, cook until its boiling point

* add tofu and witloof, stir a while

* add shaken eggs, while stirring the soup

* the last, add the sliced spring onion, celery and tomato

* served while the soup is still hot/warm

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“Good character like good soup, it is usually homemade” ~Amish Proverb~

Serpong, 17th November 2015, 22.59

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Let’s cook ~ Macaroni Smoked Beef Soup

16 November 201518 November 2015Leave a comment

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I’m in the mood to cook soup. Reasons being, cooking soup is simple and my family loves soup. Here is another simple soup that we love sooo… 🙂

Ingredients:

* 5 pcs smoked beef, sliced half lengthwise

* 100 gr macaroni, boiled, add ½ teaspoon salt into the water

* carrot, small diced cut

* cauliflower

* broccoli

* lettuce

* spring onion, sliced

* celery, sliced

* onion, chopped

* garlic, chopped

* salt

* white pepper

* 1500 ml water

Cooking steps:

* sauté garlic and onion in 2 tablespoons of cooking oil, stir until it smells good

* add smoked beef, stir a while

* add carrot, cauliflower and broccoli, stir 2 minutes

* add salt and white pepper

* add water, cook until its boiling point and the vegetables is well done

* add the boiled macaroni, stir a while

* the last, add the sliced spring onion and celery

* served while the soup is still hot/warm

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“Worries go down better with soup than without” ~Jewish Proverb~

Serpong, 16th November 2015, 16.11

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Let’s cook ~ Chicken Meatballs Soup

15 November 201516 November 2015Leave a comment

Almost everyone loves soup. Me and my family of course do. This Chicken Meatballs Soup is one of our favourite soups.

Ingredients for chicken meatballs:

* 200 gr ground breast chicken

* 150 gr vermicelli, cut 2 cm, put into water to soften

* 50 gr black fungus (black ear fungus), put into water to soften, then sliced thin

* 1 pc carrot, sliced very thin (like peels) and short (1 cm)

* 1 white egg

* 2 garlic, chopped

* ¼ teaspoon white pepper (approx)

* ¾ teaspoon salt (approx)

* 1 tablespoon sago flour

Ingredients for the soup:

* garlic, chopped

* onion, finely chopped

* ginger (approx. 1,5 cm), bruised

* salt

* white pepper

* carrot, sliced thin

* cooking oil for sautéing

* make broth by boiling the chicken bones in approx 1500 ml of water

Cooking steps:

* Chicken meatballs

Mix ground breast chicken with chopped garlic, salt and white pepper, add white egg, thin sliced carrot, vermicelli and black fungus, then add sago flour, mix well. Make small balls.

Boil water until its boiling point, put the meatballs into the boiled water. Cook until the meatballs float, then lift them out of the water and drain them.

* The soup

Saute garlic and onion in cooking oil, add ginger, salt and white pepper, stir until it smells good. Put the sauteed mixture into the broth, cook until its boiling point. Add carrot, keep cooking. The last, put the meatballs into the broth, keep cooking for 3-4 minutes.

If like, add sliced celery and spring onion.

Note: I made a variation of filling the chicken meat mixture into tofu inserts, as we love tofu 🙂

Serpong, 15th November 2015, 21.42

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Food Reviewing…Enjoying cuisine, enjoying friendship

23 August 201517 November 2015Leave a comment

Yesterday we have had a good lunch, some Indonesian foods had become our preference.

Friends of mine, a couple of husband-Hans and wife-Lina, are the owner of Javanese and Balinese cuisine specialties. There are plenty of Indonesian cuisine restaurants around the area of our living quarters who offers delicious menus, and this friends’ resto is one of them.

Located in neighborhood housing complex, Gading Serpong, they open for dining-in, taking-away and the most I guess, accepting delivery-orders. They deliver meal boxes and Nasi Tumpeng Lengkap (completed cone rice) for ceremonial events, family, community and corporate gatherings, and any other kinds of event. I have few times ordered their Nasi Tumpeng Lengkap and meal boxes. The nasi tumpeng is amply with various appendage side dishes, and they are all so tasty.

For me and my family, the taste of each menu is toothsome, the look is tempting, that’s the reasons of why we are visiting this resto quite often, besides as the location is not too far to our home.

Talk a little about the background of how I know this couple; Lina has been my long time friend since we were in kindergarten, while Hans, being friends since we were in high school. I know them as an ordinary couple, educated and religious in a humble manner. The fun side is, Lina is an active and talkative woman, while Hans is a quiet but ready-to-assist person. We have once never met each other for a long period, but then by chance we have chosen the same residential area, so the precious friendship is pleasantly reconnected. We had a lot to talks every time we meet –of which not too often-, but just the fun and good things, about our family and friends. I think Lina and I have one similarity in viewing the life, that is enjoying whatever we have with gratitude, in the way we are.

Here are some appetizing choices available in their resto:

Nasi Pecel Komplit

Includes: rice, boiled vegetables, spicy peanut sauce, peanut cracker, shredded sweet spiced fried beef, sliced cucumber, kemangi leaves, chili paste

Nasi Gudeg Telur

Includes: rice, sayur nangka gudeg, spiced boiled egg (telur bacem), fried tofu cooked in coconut sauce (opor tahu), calfskin cracker in spicy coconut sauce (kerecek), sliced cucumber, chili paste

Nasi Langgi

Includes: rice, savory beef, chili fried beef liver, sweet sauted tempe, thinly sliced omelette, sweet potato chips, grated coconut, sliced cucumber, kemangi leaves, chili paste

Nasi Kuning

Includes: yellow rice (yellow color is derived from turmeric), Javanese style fried chicken, red chili potato cubes , thinly sliced omelette, sliced cucumber, kemangi leaves, chili paste

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“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him…the people who give you their food, give you their heart” ~ Cesar Chavez

Serpong, 23rd August 2015, 20.07 (editing time)

Updated on 17th November 2015, 14.31

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Let’s cook ~ Steamed Stuffed Tofu

19 August 201516 November 2015Leave a comment

~ not to forget, I love to cook too ~

My family like tofu, cooked in any way, and this is one of the ‘love it sooo..’ kinds

Ingredients:

* tofu, chopped

* carrot, diced cut

* black fungus (black ear fungus), sliced thin

* beef sausages, diced cut

* garlic, chopped

* onion, chopped

* spring onion, finely chopped

* salt

* white pepper

Garnish:

* egg, fairly shaken

* red chili, finely sliced

* spring onion, finely sliced

Cooking steps:

* saute garlic and onion in 2 spoons of cooking oil

* add carrot, then beef sausages, then black fungus, stir-fry

* add salt and white pepper

* add spring onion

* put about 2 spoons of stir-fried mix into small pyrex bowls

* add chopped tofu on top of the stir-fried mix until covered flattened

* spread the top of tofu with shaken egg

* steam over medium heat for 5-6 minutes

* add garnish, sliced red chili and sliced spring onion

* served hot is the best, with chili sauce would be more tasty

Serpong, 19th August 2015, 13.32

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Some notes about early mornings

11 August 201525 March 20167 Comments

I love early mornings. It feels like I the only one who is awake while the others are still asleep and the world seems so quiet. I like the aroma of dawn, it brings a lot of memories; the romantic, the sweet, the miserably, the cheeriness, the doubtfulness, the blissfulness, the anxiety, and the blessedness.

The wet ground, dew drops on the leaves, dimness daybreak… as if took me into some moments in the past. I can recall the memories with the ones I loved, especially my mom and my sister who are in heaven now, about the places I’d visited either alone or with my family, as well as the situations I’d ever experienced.

Morning walks is one of the good moments to breath-in the dawn aroma. Walking around the neighborhoods when it was still somewhat dark makes me relax to start the day. Thanks to The Lord for allowing us living in this beautiful environment.

Looking back in 2010, we gratefully had a wonderful chance to make a pilgrimage journey to 16 Mother Mary caves throughout Java island. During the trip we had two-times stay in Hotel Indah, Sarangan, Magetan – East Java. There is Sarangan Lake (Telaga Sarangan) with beautiful scenery right across the hotel. The early morning is truly a fascinating view we’ve never missed.

Further, gladly that I have once worked in Singapore for a couple months. It wasn’t easy to find a quiet moment in this busy city. However, as I prefer to get in the office earlier, it’s quite often that I found myself being in empty train. Early mornings in Singapore is fun, I used to buy fresh-cooked food from the hawkers for my breakfast and occasionally get a cup of coffee from the coffee shop close to my office.

The latest visits to Singapore, we were so delighted as we may indulge the lovely early mornings in The Infinity Pool at Sands Sky Park, Marina Bay Sands. I’m really happy that my beloved mom had already enjoyed such a lovely moment.

Last but not least, when I got an opportunity for working visit to Germany, I enjoyed the morning drives from one location to another nearby in Schalksmuehle. Of course, it wasn’t me who drives 🙂

The most I like when morning comes was breakfast in the hotel, I love German breads and all the spreads on the breakfast table, the smell combination of toast and coffee is totally perfect…hmmm…

I love early mornings, I love the days full of activities, I love the pleasant evenings, I love the relaxed nights. I thank God for all the blessed moments He lets us to perceive.

Serpong, 11th August 2015, 21.33

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