Rice and Coconut

Mix fruits salad serve with tamarind palm sugar sauce is one of the menu for bridal shower at  Glass house winery  last Sunday and I'm glad everyone enjoy it. I've been experiment how to create this famous Javanese mix fruits salad or Indonesians called  rujak  in different way and display ( see the pictures bellow ) This fruits salad /  rujak  can be serve as simple as you want slices fruit and dip directly to the sauce  or drizzle into mix fruits. But this is one of my favorite,  Diced fruits serve on sweet pepper and drizzle with the sauce on top, It's perfect for a finger foods party. Or you can serve on the stick and dip into the sauce, You can use any fruits you like I like to use mango and ripe yellow papaya is best for this recipe. This picture make me happy I'm glad everyone enjoy the foods and I have a great time and Thank you all ! Special Thanks to Mark  for your help and to take these pictures for me :)

Suffed tofu or we called tahu isi, Is indonesian snack can be find easily in street side vendor serve with chili or any hot sauce. Made out of soy puff filled with ground meat and chopped vegetables, dip into batter mixture and deep fried until golden brown. "TIP" for the vegetarian-vegan version just omit the ground meat. Ingredients : - 2 Tbsp vegetable oil - 3 cloves shallots/ chop - 3 clove garlic/chop - 1 teaspoon grated ginger - 1 lb ground chicken - 2 cups chopped mushroom - 1 carrot / grated - 2 cups chopped cabbage - 2 cups beans sprout - 2 stalk green onion - 1 teaspoon salt - 1/2 teaspoon black pepper - 1 1/2 Tbsp sweet soy sauce - 18 soy puffs/tofu - vegetable oil for deep fry Batter ingredients : - 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour - 1/2 cup corn meal - 2 Tbsp rice four - 2 eggs - 1 1/2 cup cold water - 1/2 teaspoon salt and pepper - 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder Direction : In medium skillet heat vegetable oil,  Fry shallot,

What I like about this no bake nutella cheesecake is the pie crust and is very easy to make. I add marshmallow with melted butter and stir into  Graham cracker crumbs   to make solid, gooey pie crust. Cream cheese and nutella has rich flavor so I made this pie really thin but you can make thicker if you like. Ingredients : - 2 cup graham cracker crumbs - 2 Tbsp melted butter - 2 cups marshmallow - 8 oz cream cheese / room temperature - 1/4 cup nutella Directions: - In a medium bowl heat the butter in microwave about 20 second or until melted remove. Add marshmallow and stir,back into microwave, and heat for less than a minutes or until melted, stir immediately and pour cracker crumbs into melted marshmallow stir evenly until the crumbs stick together. Transfer into 9 inch round pan, and fresh them evenly, put in the fridge Meanwhile, In a mixer beat cream cheese and nutella until combine, pour into pie crust and keep in the fridge for 30 minutes or so and read

This colorful asparagus chick peas mango salad is perfect for pot luck or summer gathering, I made an experiment salad dressing with thinly slices fried garlic as a basic ingredients and mix it with lemon juice, lemon zest and honey Ingredients : - 1 lb asparagus - 2 cans 15,5 oz chick peas / garbanzo beans -  1/2 red onion - 1 ripe mango - 6 stalk celery heart Dressing Ingredients : - 4 clove garlic - 4 Tbsp olive oil - 1 lemon juice and Zest - 1 Tbsp honey - 1/2 teaspoon salt - handful fresh basil or cilantro Directions : In medium pan bring water to boil Trim and cut asparagus and blanch in hot water for few minutes remove and place into cold ice water, set aside slice onion and celery and cut mango in a small cube, set aside Meanwhile, slice garlic really thin, Heat skillet in medium temperature and fry the garlic until lightly brown remove from the heat, add lemon juice and lemon zest and honey whisk really well. set aside Place the asparagus

White chocolate morsel well blended with grated coconut and coconut oil, chocolate morsel is really sweet, so I reduce amount of sugar to add more chocolate morsel on top, It was perfect the white chocolate lightly melted and brown on top, I also made with  banana  and this crusty  loaf bread Ingredients: - 1 stick unsalted butter room temperature - 1/4 cup coconut oil - 1/2 cup dark brown sugar - 2 eggs - 2 1/2 cups self raising flour - 1 teaspoon ginger powder - 1/2 teaspoon clove powder - 1 teaspoon cinnamon - 1 teaspoon vanilla extract - 1 cup grated coconut - 1 cup white chocolate morsels/toll house by nestle  Direction : Preheat oven to 350 degrees F/ 175 degrees  In a large bowl, combine self raising flour,ginger powder,clove and cinnamon powder, In a separate bowl, set aside In a stand mixer cream together room temperature  butter,coconut oil and brown sugar. Add egg one at a time and vanilla extract add  a cup grated coconut into butter mixture,stir and

Normally I use tofu  or tempeh  to make summer rolls or cold spring rolls,but this time I have to use up leftover imitation crab before I leave on vacation. This type of cold spring rolls  need to served with the sauce, if you like peanut sauce, try with homemade soy spicy peanut sauce to go with it ( recipe below ). Ingredients : - Vietnamese spring roll wrapper / rice paper - 1 small pack cooked imitation crab - 1 carrot - 1 cucumber - lettuce / optional - basil - cilantro Direction : Cut imitation crab into stick, not to thin Cut cucumber and carrot in julienne,set aside,and place them together with basil,cilantro and lettuce To make it easier to arrange on the spring roll wrapper. Pour luke warm water into a large bowl dip spring roll skin in water for 3-5 second ( one sheet at a time ) place the filling,imitation crab,cucumber,carrot ,lettuce and herbs on the damp spring roll / rice paper wrapper wrap tightly,  cut lenghtwise  if you like a

I have leftover imitation crab and cocktail rye bread and also homemade  Sun dried tomato pesto  need to use up, With all these ingredients I made mini crab grilled cheese sandwich with sun dried tomato pesto and mozzarella cheese as finger's food, It turn out it these ingredients work well together, next time I will try to use real crab meat for this mini sandwiches. Ingredients ; - 3 strip imitation crab - 3 slices / mozzarella cheese - 3 Tbsp sun dried tomato pesto - 6 slices cocktail rye bread ( mini slices ) - 1 Tbsp butter Preparations : Heat butter on skillet on medium high temperature spread both slice bread with sun dried tomato pesto top with pulled imitation crab, mozzarella cheese and another slice bread, Cook in skillet and flip until cheese is melted.