Food Photos : Random

I'm addicted to Pinterest ! Finding food photos that wowed me and left me breathless for a second, sometimes even more, pinned them to my board and let everyone see how good those photos are. Today, I picked 5 amazing food photos I found from Pinterest. They all caught my eyes with beautiful food styling and its gorgeous lighting. Check them yourself and fall in love !

Hot chocolate and a muffin - Aisha Yusaf

Chocolate - Mónica Pinto

Molasses cookies with ginger cream cheese filling - Kristin Rosenau

Lemony Quark Tarts - Laksmi W

Walnuts - Stuart Ovenden

Giveaways for 3 ! **CLOSED**

Yup....this is the moment, I'm having a giveaway event for my readers. As I said before, this event is to show my immense gratitude on my winning as the first place winner on Sekar Magazine blog contest. I didn't get the vote (I didn't vote for myself or anyone else either) as the most favorite blog (or whatever you name it), but I won the judges' vote. What a big milestone for me. So, thank you very much.

Are you wondering what the prizes are? There are three cute food props. You may use them for your food photography props or whatever.  Check the photos of the prizes below and read how to get the chance to be the owner of those items. They all are brand new !!

Here they are..

Wire basket - Dimension (150mm x 90mm x 45mm)

Multi use jute bag - Dimension (diameter 20cm , height 9cm)

Watering bucket - Dimension (diameter top 7cm, bottom 8cm, height 8cm)

How to enter :

1. Follow me on twitter and tweet the following "I've entered to win food props  from @miauw17 #giveaway #CemplangCemplung http://bit.ly/X9ABp1 " then leave a comment below and tell me that you did. 
2. Follow me on Pinterest then leave a comment below and tell me that you did.
3. Or simply leave a comment that you want to participate in this giveaway event.

NOTE : Leave a separate comment for each of your entries as each comment will be counted as one entry. So you will have bigger chance to win one of the prizes. One person will only receive one prize. So we will have three winners.

Rules :

1. This giveaway event is open to Indonesia residents only.
2. This event opens on November 15, 2012 and will be closed on November 30, 2012 11.59 pm (Indonesia time)
3. Winners will randomly be chosen on the next day and will be announced the day after.

Good luck !

Good news and Thai tea

Hi all, at this moment I want to share my happiness with all my readers. My blog has won as the first place winner on Sekar Magazine blog contest. I was thrilled and surprised to hear my blog being announced as the first place winner. Alhamdulillah. Glad to know people appreciate my work and who knows they'll find an inspiration from this blog. Later on my next post to show my gratitude, I will be giving away "something" for three lucky person. Keep your eyes open !

Enough with the good news and here comes the bad news (haha...kidding !). As a person who loves eat well and drink well, I truly enjoy myself tasting new foods or drinks.  I taste them, I smell them and I feel them, if it meet my personal  taste then I put it to my "worth to try recipe" list. My list is getting longer and longer especially after I add more and more yummy recipes from foodgawker everyday.

This Thai tea (my version of Thai tea, only because I made it without following any specific recipe) is a favorite for my hubby and my son. I make it every weekend and nothing left in the bottle, they absolutely looove it. When the first time I tried Thai tea, I thought it was made from my usual tea leaves and pour some milk to produce the orange color. But then I was wrong, Thai tea is a mixture of black tea leaves, star anise and other spices.

I use milk instead of sweetened condensed milk to make it more creamy and thick. Add some ice cubes and feel the freshness and the exotic tea. Believe it's not just tea !
Here's the Thai tea mixture I used in this recipe.

Enjoy....

Guest post : Ayam Penyet / Crushed fried chicken with sambal for Lisa of "From my Lemony Kitchen"

One more guest post from me on From my Lemony Kitchen. How lucky I am to have finally found the recipe of this sambal since I had it for the very first time maybe five years ago and I had been trying to make the sambal all this time.

This special request came from Lisa, she wanted Ayam Penyet for the guest post. Since I love Ayam Penyet for lunch and I had never been to make it by myself, I took the chance. I won't let myself ramble away for now. Please kindly visit and check the complete story also the recipe of Ayam Penyet (Crushed fried chicken with sambal) on From my Lemony Kitchen.

Bye now... :)

Oreo cheesecake

Who can resist Oreo ? Though I'm not in the position to represent the product, but it's true. Kids will love Oreo smoothies, chocolate covered Oreo cookies or simply dip them in a glass of milk. Be creative and let your imagination free to create new recipe using Oreos.

I made this Oreo cream cheese cake from half package of leftover cream cheese and leftover whipped cream. The rest of the ingredients are always available in my fridge. I don't have the skill to make beautiful cake, especially when it takes long time to prepare and bake the cake layer by layer. Even making beautiful shape of swirls for cupcakes has always been my biggest challenge.

This cake is about fun and simple, of course kids will love it because it tastes like ice cream. I have made this cake several times with some modification. Mixed the cream cheese with Oreo crumbs, made pie crust from Oreo and when my hand mixer stopped working, I added egg then put the cake into the oven. But all off them turned out good and never failed me. 

Hence, I've waited so long to post about it, I tried to make it look beautiful and special. Hope you like it and feel free to try the recipe.

I've been nominated as one of Sekar magazine blog contest finalist. If you like my blog and you think I'm suitable enough to get your vote, please click here and vote for me. Thank you very much more than I can say to you :) 

Enjoy...