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.

Quick Tip: Transforming a soup into a dish.

During the last weekend, we wanted to make a light starter to break our fasting day (syawal). So we looked into our fridge and found these ingredients: chopped and sliced ready-to-fry potatoes, some fresh mushrooms and some cherry tomatoes.

What would be a good idea to quickly make a delicious starter?

tell me....

1. Grab an instant mushroom soup and pour it with a hot boiled water in a small cup. Let it cool for a while.
2. Take 2 or 3 small pyrex bowls and put the chopped potatoes in them, but don't fill it. Just enough to cover their base.
3. Cut in two the cherry tomatoes and put the two halves in each bowl.
4. Cut mushrooms in 4 and also put them in each bowl.
5. Put a little bit of plain flour and 1 egg into the soup cup and stir it.
6. Pour the soup into each bowls until it fills the bowl.
7. Put a pinch of pepper or salt if you like, but don't forget that you have used an instant soup which already contains some salt and MSG (vetcin or E621).
   
8. Bake them inside an oven for long enough until the egg is cooked and the soup is evaporated.

And you get a nice mushroom soup dish, just like the Bu Sui's Mac Schotel.
As a modification, you can cover the dish with a slice of lasagna pasta or pangsit on top. A sliced pangsit is also nice for a decoration.

Mac Schotel

Date: 23 Sep 2003. EXIF

Macaroni pasta with minced meat. A nice setting for a starter.

Ingredients:

1. any macaroni pasta,
2. minced meat,
3. egg,
4. paprika,
5. spring onion,
6. garlic,
7. onion.