Rice and Coconut

Unlike " beef rendang" thick slice beef with thick coconut chili's sauce and cook simmer for long time,this beef and cabbage rendang are soupy dish,and made by cut thinly sliced beef. Ingredients : 1 pound thinly sliced beef ( round eye beef roast ) 1/2 medium  size cabbage 1/2 cup coconut milk 2 tbs vegetable oil 2 shallot 2 clove garlic 2 red chilli's/cayenne pepper 1 inch of galangal 2 bay leave 2 star anise 1/2 tsp pepper+ salt to taste 1/2 tsp nutmeg 1/2 tsp ground ginger 1 tbs Beef base 1 tsp sweet soy sauce 5 cup water Preparation : slice beef in to small size/what u prefer cut cabbage rough big chopped set aside,,, chop shallot,garlic,galangal and chilli's until grounded heat oil on big soup pan fry grounded spice ingredients ( shallot etc) until cook or brown add beef base, and the rest of spice ingredients add coconut milk and water add sliced beef ( simmer for about an hour or so,,,after beef is cooked then add ca

As an Indonesian I love fried rice,I always made fried rice whenever I had leftover rice, but this time instead of fry I bake the rice with vegetables and beef sausage as optional, You can make this rice  dish as vegan-vegetarian dish too,just omit the sausage. I use the beef sausage just to use up leftover but you can use any meat sausage you likes, adding sliced baby bella mushrooms in this baked rice is perfect, I recommended especially for vegan or vegetarian. Ingredients : 8 cups cooked rice/cold/leftover 1 can whole kernel corn 1 can butter bean 8 oz slices baby bella mushrooms 6 oz beef sausage/ chicken sausage/estimates  ( optional ) cut in cube 2 cube beef/vegetables bouillon 1 onion/chop 2 clove garlic/chop 2 Tbsp butter plus for grease For the spices ingredients 1 teaspoon cardamom powder 2 inch lemon grass/thinly slices or powder 1 tsp turmeric powder 1 teaspoon curry powder pinch of black pepper/white pepper 1/2 tsp red pepper flak

To my friend bridget Thank you so much for sharing the recipe of "roasted tomato basil soup " I like it so much, I do follow your recipe except, use any tomatoes what I have on hand  from  our little garden need to use up soon, And I'm glad that I use these basil from the garden too,, This kinds of soup is something different from my " Asian foods" I never have it until last week at your house and  I enjoy it,,,,I think I use to much red pepper  though, because I noticed  Mark was sweating when he ate the soup :) sorry I didn't taste it,,,I'm still fasting LoL,,,,and of course is not Too "spicy hot" for me and you,,,,you know I'm not follow measurement on red pepper part  obviously i did on purpose :) Roasted tomato basil soup cut tomatoes sprinkles with olive oil,sat and pepper yellow onion and garlic Plum tomato with juice  try to take pictures many time,still not clear :( Sweet basil Ing

Nastar cookies is traditional indonesian cookies with sweet pineapple filling, are typically made during holiday,I try made with different sweet filling like a peach preserves,raspberry,and dried cloves flavored, this time I try to make with natural  pandan flavored. with dried cloves just stick on cookies before  you bake them !! without pandan colour with dried cloves Ingredients : 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 1/2  tsp salt 1 cup softened unsalted butter 1/4 cup confectionesrs' sugar 3 egg yolk 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 3 drop pandan paste  1 cup pineapple jam/preserve 1 egg wash dried cloves ( optional ) Directions  - Sift flour and salt into a bowl and set aside.   - Using a stand mixer, cream butter and confectioners’ sugar on medium speed for several minutes until light and fluffy. Add the egg yolks, one at a time. Add the egg yolks, one at a time. Add the vanilla,pandan paste and mix until com

Strawberry pineapple smoothie Ingredients : 2 cup sliced fresh strawberry 2 cup sliced fresh pineapple 2 cup crushed ice 3 tbs strawberry syrup or sugar ( just blender all ingredients together ) serving for 2

Avocado salad with mango citrus dressing Ingredients: Avocado / cut by two take a seed and scoop with a spoon baby arugula watercress cherry tomato thinly sliced red onion strawberry ( estimates and you can use mix green salad or something else) Mango citrus dressing Ingredients 1 mango juice / 1 orange juice /1 lemon 1 clove garlic 1 tbsp plan yogurt 1 tsp honey pinch of salt 1/2 tsp hot sauce ( any kind/optional ) I used orange habanero sauce ( just blender all ingredients salad dressing until combine )  keep  leftover on the fridge for later,,,,,

Curry,,,,,article from wikipedia, Curry  (   / ˈ k ʌr i / ) is a generic description used throughout Western culture to describe a variety of dishes from  Indian ,  Bangladeshi ,  Pakistani ,  Sri Lankan ,  Thai  or other  South  and  Southeast Asian cuisines . Three spices found in most curry powders are  turmeric ,  coriander , and  cumin ; a wide range of additional spices may be included depending on the geographic region and the foods being included (meats, fish, lentils, rice, etc.). [1] Curry's popularity in recent decades has spread outward from the  Indian subcontinent  to figure prominently in international cuisine. Consequently, each culture has adopted spices in its indigenous cooking to suit its own unique tastes and cultural sensibilities. Curry can therefore be called a  pan-Asian  or  global  phenomenon with immense popularity in Thai,  British ,  Japanese  and Caribbean  cuisines Chicken curry is normally thick curry sauce,but this time i made curry chicken s