Tamarillo Juice / Jus terong Belanda

Setiap pagi berangkat kantor, saya selalu lewat pasar Palmerah. Di tempat saya biasa menunggu angkot, ada penjual buah-buahan buat jus. Dari mulai jambu biji, strawberi, buah naga, alpukat, mangga (aneka macam mangga !!), jeruk, melon, dan terong Belanda.

Sebenarnya terong Belanda ini biasa saya nikmati dalam bentuk sirup warna ungu, yang dijual di supermarket. Tapi kali itu saya penasaran ingin merasakan rasa aslinya dan bagaimana cara mengolahnya. Setelah browsing-browsing cari resep, akhirnya saya mendapatkan resepnya.

Dan...seperti biasa, saya tidak punya takaran khusus untuk resep ini. Bahan-bahannya hanya terong belanda, gula pasir, es batu, sedikit air matang, dan terakhir susu kental manis. Caranya juga mudah, masukan terong Belanda (yang dibelah dua, buang bijinya, keruk dagingnya), es batu, air, dan gula pasir ke dalam blender. Semakin banyak buahnya berarti semakin terasa rasa buahnya kan ? :D Setelah lembut, masukan ke dalam gelas, tambahkan susu putih di atasnya.

Rasanya agak-agak asam manis, tapi yang jelas sih...beda dengan rasa sirupnya.
Mudah sekali kan....

Chocolate-covered Oreo cookies with colorful sprinkle

Oreo rocks....!!! Hahaha ..... keep Oreo sandwich biscuits in your house and you could make some simple recipes from it. Oreo smoothies, Oreo cheesy cream and also chocolate-covered Oreo. Magic, how I can managed 3 boys in the same room and make this recipe together. Oreo is my savior.

I had posted this recipe few months ago, it's still the same recipe with the old one. The difference is only by sprinkling the colorful sprinkle on top of these cookies. The kids were so happy with the sprinkle, though the sprinkle has no specific taste at all.

I didn't scaling or weighting in this recipe. As I mentioned before in one of my post, that I wasn't born to cook. Me and baking are almost like enemies :D. Maybe because I hate scaling and weighting ingredients, and (hate to admit it) sometimes I don't read the step by step carefully. So, it happens a lot I ended up with failure :D. Now, food photography is become my biggest passion. Don't get it wrong when I take pictures of bought food.

What you need for this recipe are (of course) Oreo cookies, dark chocolate, white chocolate and sprinkle. Easy, right ?

How to :
1. In a stainless steel bowl set over a saucepan of boiling water, put in the dark cooking chocolate and white chocolate. Stir until melted, remove from heat.
2. Using two forks, dip Oreos (a couple at a time, depending on the size of your bowl) in the melted chocolate and coat both sides. Place on cookie sheet lined with parchment or wax paper. (Decorate top of cookie with colorful sprinkles or crushed candy canes, if you like)
3. Let set in refrigerate for about 45 minutes to an hour.


Enjoy.....

How to spoil yourself on a rainy day ?

Rain rain go away, come again some other day

Flood and Jakarta are almost inseparable. No offense, please. After heavy rain for hours, and as we all know (for those who lives in Jakarta), puddle and flood everywhere, caused a very tragic traffic jam right after. So many people got stucked on the street for hours.

For the next day, I decided to stay at home, alone, baked Molten Chocolate Pudding and spoiled myself by making a cup of hot chocolate. Again, it was raining that day, heavy rain.

Hot Chocolate Drink

Ingredients :
- a cup of UHT milk
- cocoa powder
- sugar

How to :
Mix all ingredients in a small saucepan, slowly stir. Heat and stir over moderately low heat until mixture boils, then boil slowly, stirring constantly, 2 minutes. Then pour it into a cup.

For the Molten Chocolate Pudding, I adapted the recipe from Leite's Culinaria . Can you imagine, how chocolatey my day was ? There I was in front of my PC, editing some photos, uploaded some of them, took a deep sip of hot chocolate, put a spoonful of molten chocolate pudding into my mouth. Heaven, right ?

So, tell me how you spoil yourself on a rainy day ?

Celery Soup

Soup I usually eat is a kind of Indonesian soup, with carrot, potato and cabbage. But this time I made celery soup. I was pleasantly surprised to realize that I actually liked this recipe for celery soup.

The recipe is very easy and simple and does not take long and available for vegans too. You can replace the chicken stock (which I used in this recipe) with vegetable stock. Actually, I found this from the recipe book for vegan. :) So, yes .... for all vegans, you could try this recipe by replacing the chicken stock.

Ingredients :
- 250 gr stalks of celery, cleaned and chopped
- 1 large onion, diced small
- 250 gr mushrooms, trimmed and chopped fine
- 2 large carrots, cleaned and chopped
- 1 liter of chicken stock
- salt, pepper, nutmeg powder and sugar to taste

How to :
1. In a large saucepan, melt the butter on medium heat. Add onion and sweat for about 10 minutes.
2. Add chicken stock, salt, pepper, nutmeg powder, sugar carrots and mushroom into the pan. Bring to a boil.
3. Adjust heat to maintain a slow simmer and put the celery into the pan.
4. Let cook for a while, until celery are soft.
5. Serve it.


Enjoy....

Breakfast : Fried rice with salted dried tiny silver anchovies

What is the easiest menu for breakfast ? My answer is fried rice. You can make fried rice with ingredients you have in the fridge. Corn, chicken, sausage, meat balls, egg, oyster sauce, chili, garlic, onion, and I am sure you can find them all in the fridge. All you need to do is mix them all, cook and serve it. Simple (or am I just lazy ?!). :)

Sunday morning, raining, I feel like I wasn't in the mood to go to the market. But my son and hubby has to eat something for breakfast. Luckily, I have a plastic of salted dried tiny silver anchovies. Uuhhh....it just perfect for fried rice.

In the place where I live, we can meet salted dried fish stall everywhere from traditional market to hyper mart. Warm rice, salted dried fish and shrimp paste sambal (sambal terasi), those foods really work to whet my appetite. *I'm mouth watering right now

Here's the recipe of my version of fried rice. I like to cook without a recipe, just follow my kitchen instinct.

Nasi goreng teri Medan/ Fried rice with salted dried tiny silver anchovies

Ingredients :
- 2 plates of cooked rice
- 4 large red chillies
- 5 onion, peeled
- 1 cloves garlic, peeled
- 4 tablespoons of salted dried tiny silver anchovies
- salt
- sugar, to taste
- 1 tablespoon chooped spring onion
- pepper

How to :
1. Fry salted dried tiny silver anchovies. Set aside.
2. Using pestle, mortal, food processor or blender, make a paste with red chillies, onion, garlic, salt, sugar and pepper.
3. With the same oil, saute the onion, garlic and chili paste until fragrant.
4. Add cooked rice and salted dried tiny silver anchovies, stir well.
5. Serve it.
Make 2 servings.


Enjoy.....