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Vegetarian spring rolls

Vegetarian spring rolls are my family and friends favorite, crispy and serve with  lighly spicy homemade peanut sauce. Ingredients : - spring roll pastry/ skin 25 sheet spring rolls skin - half of  medium size cabbage and 1 large carrot shredded ( see a picture bellow ) - 8 oz rice noodle or bean thread noodles (soak in the warm water for about 7 minutes or  until soft) - half of onion ( chopped ) - 3 clove of garlic chopped - 2 Tbsp soy sauce - 1 cube vegetable bouillon - salt and pepper to taste - 1 egg for glue - vegetable oil for fry Direction Heat 4 Tbsp vegetable oil on medium high fry chopped onion and garlic until soft add shredded cabbage and carrot cook until fragrant. and add  soft rice noodle ( already shock) add seasoning with soy sauce and  1/2 tsp salt+ pepper Cut rice noodle and cook until soft fill the spring roll skin with rice noodles mixture about 2 Tablespoon spring,roll it diagonal  and gl

Cucumber salad/indonesian acar timun

Cucumber is one of my favorite vegetable,especially for a salad, I like to use seedless cucumber better too,because is better for a salad. This salad is very simple and easy to make,normally in my country they served as a side dishes for a satay such a chicken satay,beef or lamb satay with Indonesians traditional peanut sauce. Ingredients; 1 seedless cucumber 2 carrot 1 big size shallot for the sauce : 1 lemon juice  or ( 1 tbs white vinegar ) 1 tbs sesame oil 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp sugar add sliced chili ( optional ) preparations : cut cucumber and carrot  /you can cut cube or julienne,and sliced shallot really thin and mix it in the salad bowl mix lemon juice/white  vinegar,sesame oil,salt and sugar,whisk it and pour into salad bowl and stir very well.

Salmon cake

Salmon cake 1 fillet salmon  8 oz yield for 4 pcs of salmon cakes, just cook on 1 tbs olive oil about 2 minutes each side then crumbled it and add seasoning ingredients; 1 egg 2 tbs panko bread crumbs 1/4 cup chopped green onion 6 caper ( chopped really fine ) 1 tbs mayonnaise about 4 drop worcestershire sauce black pepper to taste ( old bay seasoning will be great  if you have it ) just mixed really well divide by four , Heat 1 tbs butter  on low heat cooked about 3 minutes each side or until golden brown and ready to put on the bun I served with  baked potato sticks potato cut sticks drizzled with olive oil sprinkles with rosemary garlic blend seasoning and baked on 375 f for about 20-25 minutes

sweet potato chocolate pudding

Sweet potato blended with cocoa, nutella and cream, a dessert pudding experiment it's turn out really well, so I ve been make this dessert so many time, I did try with regular potato but sweet potato/yam is better for this pudding recipe. Ingredients : - 4 medium  sweet potatoes/ peel and cut in cube - 1 egg - 2 Tbsp sugar - 1 Tbsp cocoa - 2 Tbs hazelnut spread/nutella - 1/4 cup milk - 1/4 cup heavy cream PREPARATION Boil  sweet potatoes until soft,transfer to food processor/blender with milk, put back on the boil pan add remaining ingredients : sugar,cocoa, hazelnut spread/nutella and egg, stir really fast with spatula ( make sure egg mix really well )   add heavy cream, stirring about few minutes until about boiling,then transfer to individual small bowl ,put in the fridge for about 2 hours or until cold,  served with whipped cream on top.

Pandan coconut french toast

The cream mixture for the french toast are dairy free, made out coconut milk,egg and pandan paste, mix well together and I drizzle with store-bought  salted caramel or you can serve with regular pancake syrup as dairy free Pandan french toast Ingredients : 4 sliced bread 1 egg 1/2 cup coconut milk 2 drop pandan paste store bought salted caramel sauce preparation: Preheat flat pan on medium high  whisk egg,coconut milk and pandan paste really well cut a slice bread in half and dip a slice bread to the coconut egg mixture  grilled about 2 minutes each side and ready to served with  pancake syrup for diry free or salted caramel sauce and dusted with powder sugar if you like.

layer eggplant pizza

I have 4 pcs leftover Roll up for sandwich in the freezer,so I will use for a pizza crust that why I call it  "layer eggplant  pizza"  Roll up is very thin,so i have to  double it to make a crust  Ingredients : 4  Roll up half of onion halp of eggplant pizza sauce (chopped eggplant and onion, sauteed on 1 tbs olive oil until soft) and set aside you can use storebought pizza sauce ( if you like ) but I made my own pizza sauce pizza sauce ingredients : 3 tbs tomato paste 2 tbs heavy cream 1 tsp tuscany blend spices handful chopped sweet basil salt and pepper to taste simmer on low heat in few minutes ( pizza sauce is enough for 4 roll up crust ) the first layer are pizza sauce and shredded cheese,second layer  are pizza sauce and sauteed eggplant and  onion i f you see in this picture I layer the second roll up on the top and add shredded cheese and bake on 350 f for 15 minutes layer eggplant pizza are ready,,,

Tofu scrambled

Tofu scrambled egg,is one of my type of food if I  have leftover egg whites after I made cookies or something,so I won't keep egg whites  too long in the fridge it's really easy  to prepare. use any type tofu you silken or firm tofu. so i still can taste a tofu crumbled. Tofu scrambled Ingredients 1 firm tofu 2 egg ( i use leftover white egg ) 2 tbs of butter 2 tbs onion ( chopped ) 2 stalk green onion( chopped ) 1/4 cup mozarella cheese ( cheddar ) salt and pepper to taste preaparation squizeed a tofu to make crumbled heat butter on fry pan ( close to medium high temperature) cook onion until soft add egg stir up add crumbled tofu  and half of mozarella cheese  and green onion stir up well and seasoned with salt and pepper ready to serve,topping with the rest of cheese For the grilled brusselsprout : cut fresh brusselsprout in half drizzled with olive oil and springkles with montreal steak seasoning cook on  flat pan grill in few minutes until brown

Green beans coconut

In Indonesia my mother use to make this dish with  "cassava leaf" but i didn't find here in the state where i lived ,,so i substitute with" Greenbeans" the secret ingredients are two spices name " galangal and greater galangal" is very popular  in south east Asian ,made this food very special taste just  like at home :) Greenbeans coconut Ingredients: 2  cans cut  cooked greenbean ( 29 oz ) 1/2 cup fresh grated coconut 1 cup coconut milk 2 tbs coconut oil 1/2 of yellow onion 2 clove of garlic 1/2 cup diced tomato 1 tsp galangal powder/ fresh is best 1/2 tsp powder greater galangal pinch of nutmeg 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp pepper Preparation: chopped onion and garlic heat coconut  oil on medium high sauteed onion and garlic until soft add diced tomato stir up add coconut milk,green beans,and grated coconut seasoning with the last five  ingredients and simmer down about 10 minutes or so serve with steam white rice is best !!