Breakfast with Eggs

Egg, Meat Slice & Cheese	Egg Benedict

Ever wondered about egg??

It's a title of a nice BBC TV show about cookery, called "Ever wondered about ...", where not only how to cook showed, but also a little bit of history and science behind it. Last weekend was about egg. One dish that Paul, the presenter, showed is the egg benedict, i.e. a toast, a slice of ham, a pouched egg and served with hollandaise sauce.

A bit of wondering about egg benedict, I search on the Internet and found the discovery about this dish:

In 1894, Lemuel Benedict, a Wall Street broker, who was suffering from a hangover, ordered “some buttered toast, crisp bacon, two poached eggs, and a hooker of hollandaise sauce” at the Waldorf Hotel in New York.

a hooker of hollandaise sauce ??

Snack Attack !!

Three light dishes or snacks for your spare time. A good company while you watch your TV with your families, or even as your mate during the internet browsing.

Date: 10 Oct 2004. EXIF

Tempe Goreng

Tempe Goreng (fried tempe)
Tempe is an Indonesian type of food, made by soy beans. Some famous dishes from tempe are: tempe bacem, tempe goreng mendoan and sambal tempe. Here we made a fried tempe (tempe goreng), couted with spiced flour.

Date: 25 Dec 2004. EXIF

Samosa

Samosa
This is an Indian snack, stuffed with meat and potatoes, a lot of curry powder, and covered filo pastry in triangle shape. It has to be hot and spicy.

Date: 9 Jan 2005. EXIF

Croquette

Croquette
These balls are croquette (Dutch=kroketten), made of smashed potatoes and some meat, covered with breadcrumbs. This is a typical Dutch snack for quick lunch. There is even an automatic croquette vending machine in Holland, that you just put a coin and grab the croquette.

Whatever type of snacks we have, we like to eat them with sambal (or chili paste). The best are with sambal ABC, of course, and also with raw bird peppers or cabe rawit (150.000 Scoville Heat Units).

Red Rose with Fried Pangsit

Date: 12 Nov 2004. EXIF

"A red, red rose."
And Pak Sui added: "with a fried, fried pangsit..." nyam, nyam.

Crème au Caramel

Date: 15 Oct 2004. EXIF

During our trip to St. Malo, Bretagne, France in Sept. 2004, we had a chance to taste the famous French desert, pudding au caramel. After returning home, Bu Sui made this desert. It is elegant and sweet. They come in many variations.

Ingridients: caster sugar, milk, eggs, custard and salt. You also need a little bit of water to make the caramel syrup.

Chocolade Weekend

Date: 10 Dec 2004. EXIF	Date: 10 Dec 2004. EXIF
Chocolade Cake	Chocolade Muffins

This weekend was a chocolade weekend from Bu Sui. She made a bunch of chocolade muffins and a chocolade cake. They are so yummmmy... :-)

Sambal ABC

I think I have to create our favourite chile sauce as one blog posting. Its taste is so delicious that no other chile sauces can come close to it. I am not from the Indofood company, nor promoting their products, but it's true that they have good ones.

Variance: sambal asli (the original one), sambal seafood, tropical chile, extra pedas (extra hot) and sambal Lampung (one region in Indonesia)

Note: sambal (in Indonesian) means chile paste (or sauce).

Ingredients: (from the original one) Fresh Red Chile, Water, Sugar, Salt, Garlic, Acetic Acid, Tapioca Starch, Sodium Benzoate.

Online price comparison:
(searched by Google)

1. Indonesia: Rp. 2300,00
   
2. Japan: Yen 450.00
3. Netherlands: Euro 1.50
4. Germany: Euro 1.69
5. United States: USD 2.89
   

Now you just make a simple calculation to get the lowest price and ...... have a nice trip to Indonesia!!

Oh, and one more thing. If you go to Indonesia, there are only 2 international fast food restaurants who have delicious chile sauce like sambal ABC, i.e. KFC and Hoka Hoka Bento.

The First Pie

Date: 31 Aug 2003. EXIF

This is among the first pie that Bu Sui made. I forget what are precisely the ingredients, but let me guess. It mainly has:

1. pie (of course),
2. spinach,
3. some mushrooms, and
4. either chicken or tuna.

En toef van sambal ABC. (I just learn what toef is, though it only applies for cream.)

Roti Jala

Date: 03 Sep 2004. EXIF

A stack of Roti Jala.

It literally means a weblike bread, but mostly translated to English as lace pancake or 'net' bread. It is a Malay tradional cuisine, mainly in the northern part of Sumatra island and also in West Malaysia and Singapore.

To make the pancake, you can use a common pancake recipe, but you must use a special cup to pour the pancake dough into a hot non-sticky fry pan. This roti jala cup has 4-5 small holes and you have to move a regular circular way to make the lacy pattern. After the pancake is cooked, you can fold it into a rectangular shape like in the left figure.

This is one of the top dish from Bu Sui. Zo lekker!! We had to asked our parent to send the roti jala cup specially from Medan, Indonesia in order to make it here in Holland. So what does this cup look like? See this demonstration below, where Bu Sui poured the pancake dough with the roti jala cup into a frying pan.

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Date: 03 Sep 2004.

Roti Jala with Chicken Curry.

The best way to serve roti jala is with a spicy chicken or beef curry. The hotter is the curry, the better is its taste.

Roti jala is one of favourite dishes in Malaysia. It can be found in many food stalls on the streets. I found a nice picture from the internet about people selling roti jala on the streets.