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Showing posts with label Food and Baverage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food and Baverage. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Story Behind The (postponed) Gyoza

Kemarin...

Aku pergi ke supermarket X buat belanja bahan untuk masak Gyoza. Gara-garanya nonton video masak Gyoza di Facebook dan Youtube, jadi pengen bikin sendiri dong yaahh.



List-nya hari itu adalah beli bahan-bahan buat bikin Gyoza yang lagi nggak tersedia di dapur, yaitu minyak wijen sama daging ayam giling.

Sampai di supermarket X, aku langsung ambil daging ayam giling duluan. Habis itu jalan ke section saos botolan.. ehh ternyata minyak wijen harganya mahal pake banget! Rp. 37.800 buat 195 ml dan nggak ada option merek lain atau kemasan yang lebih kecil pula. Dulu terakhir beli minyak wijen aku lupa harganya berapa karena udah lama banget, jadi... ya aku ambil satu botol deh minyak wijennya.

Hari ini...

Aku jalan ke supermarket Y, ceritanya pengen beli sabun muka. Muter-muter di aisle minyak dan kecap-kecapan, ehh ternyata nemu minyak wijen yang percis sama dengan yang dibeli kemaren dengan harga yang....... jauh lebih murah!!! KZL KZL KZL! ZBL ZBL ZBL! Mana ada pilihan brand lain pula dengan harga yang jauuuuh lebih murah lagi! *angry emoticon*

Minyak wijen di supermarket X: Rp 37.800

Ehh ternyata di supermarket Y juga ada: Rp 28.200 *sedihhh*

Sebenarnya aku udah tau supermarket X yang katanya terbesar in the town itu kalo naroh harga nggak tanggung-tanggung mahalnya. Bahkan harga shampoo dan sabun aja (kalo nggak lagi diskon yaa) udah dijamin yang paling mahal lah. Tapi berhubung cuma supermarket X ini yang jual daging giling, ya udah deh sekalian aku ambil minyak wijen, khawatirnya nggak ada di tempat lain.

Ehh, sialnya lagi hari itu, sampai di rumah, daging ayam giling yang dibeli baunya udah nggak enak! Pas di kasir sebenarnya aku udah nyium aroma-aroma nggak sedap, wah nih pasti si ayam nih. Langsung aku ngebut pulang ke rumah. Pas sampai di rumah, aku langsung keluarin tuh ayam dan baunya udah makin nggak enak. Duh, alamat nggak jadi bikin Gyoza nich *mulai panik*

Karena sayang, aku langsung bilas dikit tuh daging ayam giling, kasih garam dan jeruk nipis, trus aku tumis. Eehh pas ditumis, bukannya wangi, aromanya malah bikin semaput. Ibuku sampai keliling-keliling rumah, heran sama baunya, kirain ada bangkai tikus atau apa gitu, taunya dari dapur.

Trus Ibu bilang, "Udah, gak usah dipakai tuch daging ayam, udah gak segar lagi, nggak layak dikonsumsi. Lain kali kalo beli daging-dagingan jangan di supermarket gitu-gitu, kita kan nggak tau itu ayamnya masih segar apa enggak. Kalo beli ayam potong di pasar aja, trus cincang dech pake pisau"

Aku hanya diam menatap nanar si daging ayam. Emang biasanya aku nggak pernah beli daging-dagingan mentah di supermarket, cuma ini karena udah dicincang aja. Huhuhu... jadi sedih dehh... Udah nggak jadi bikin Gyoza, tekor di daging ayam, ehhh rugi di minyak wijen juga... *sedih banget*

Moral: 
Research lagi dan lagi sebelum membeli.
Jangan belanja lagi di supermarket X kalo nggak mau KZL dan ZBL dan tekor lagi

Side story:
Itu ayam tumis semaput akhirnya dikasih buat makan kucing. Alhamdulillah si kucing sampai hari ini masih hidup, semoga sehat-sehat terus dan makin nurut sama majikan. Aamiin.

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

The Old Palace

Hi everyone.

Last week I visited Istana Baso Pagaruyung which is located in my parent's hometown, Batusangkar. As Batusangkar is also considered as my kampuang, never visiting its famous rumah gadang (cultural house) has become my shame.

So last weekend along with my parents, we finally paid a visit there!







As a tourism object, the place was somewhat nice. Adult visitors are charged Rp. 7000 per person. What people do mostly is taking picture with various angles and background. Traditional wedding costumes are also available for rent (costed Rp. 35.000 for adults for 1 costume), so visitors can strike a pose like a Minangese bride. We did that too, but too shame lah to post the pict for public hehehe :p

Besides of visiting the old palace, we also visited its market there. Visiting hometown's local market has become my mom's routine everytime mom goes to hometown. She mostly bought veggies and fruits, which are much more fresher and cheaper than market here at my place. The traditional market here was nicer, neater, and cleaner too. Everytime I go to any place, visiting its local market has become my favorite activity. It's always nice to shop at the local market so that you can see the difference with your boring-daily markets.

Ok guys, have a good morning.
May you all have a great day!

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

If I Have More Money...

Hi guys.
Alhamdulillah yesterday I reached my hometown sound and safe. I feel so happy to be at home again and hopefully I can be more productive doing my project while keeping my house clean and neat.

One surprising thing is when my Dad took me at the airport... Dad wore gemstone rings!! Not one, but two!! OMG... Dad has been infected by gemstone fever OMG... I couldn't stop laughing when seeing dad being so proud to show me his collection of  gemstone: not the luxury ones, just the affordable and beautiful colors that catched his eyes. I remembered that one day Dad commenting about how insane people nowadays being so crazy about gemstone and now here he goes, hehehe... But it's okay, I still love seeing Dad happy and has something to talk about his new hobby of gemstone.

Okay..

So I have been thinking daydreaming lately about what would I do if I got jackpot and win lots of money. What would I do...............................................................................

I think I would make a kitchen-studio and start a cooking channel on youtube. Seeing Vahchef has given me inspiration to combine things that I think I would never be bored of (cooking and acting in front of camera, hihihi).


And I really love to have a kitchen like Laura's



I subscribed to some cooking channels on youtube; Japanese, Indian, and western food as well (my subscription channel keeps growing). But till now I haven't found any Indonesian cooking channel-delivered in English-that's being so consistent in presenting Indonesian food. So guys, if you know any you can recommend me.

When I watch cable Tv at my aunty's house you can make sure that I have always tuned on cooking channel. I don't know why (maybe there's something wrong with me) but I really loooove watching foods being cooked. I even once applied to a cooking competition but till now haven't gotten any call for audition, hehehe... But it's ok. Submitting a video for the competition had been a quite challenge for me.

Hopefully step by step I can make my daydream come true. One day... Insya Allah... With a persistent hardwork and pray of course. Ameen.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Easy Tasty Homemade Fries

If I may choose what kind of specific theme I would like to turn my blog into, I probably would consider for a food blog. So, today I am gonna share the recipe about how to cook easy and tasty homemade fries, or also known as french fries. The key point to make a crunchy, Mc Donald-style of french fries is to blanch the potato into boiling water before frying it.



Here is the recipe:
- 2 big size of potatoes
- 1 pcs chicken sausage
- cooking oil
- water
- salt and pepper
- chilli sauce

How to make:
- Peel of the potato skin, cut into french fries pieces
- Boil + 200 ml of water, simmer the potato into the boiled water for + 2 minutes
- Strain the potato with the strainer, let it dry and cool down a bit
- Heat the cooking oil, set the flame to medium-high
- Deep fry the potato's pieces into the hot oil the until golden-yellow in color
- Lift the fries from the pan, place in the iron strainer to release excess oil
- Put the warm fries into the bowl based with kitchen tissue, sprinkle with salt and pepper
- Shake the bowl until all part of fries seasoned with salt and pepper
- Serve on the plate while it's warm, completed with fried sausage and chilli sauce
- Enjoy your yummy and tasty homemade fries

Tips:
- Deep fry the potato with hot oil. Frying the potato with less hot oil may cause the potato to absorb too much oil
- Garlic or chilli powder can also be added for the seasoning

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Cooking The Chapati

After being stuck for so long in searching the ingredients to cook chapati, finally, last week, I have successfully cooked it along with the vegetable curry. The special ingredients I got are: whole wheat flour and instant curry paste.

Whole wheat flour (known as Atta flour)
I had searched for the whole wheat flour in supermarkets from the last 2 month but sadly I couldn't find any. I finally found it at the Indian mini market in Pasar Baru, Jakarta. The unique things is, this is a Bogasari brand (which is Indonesian product) but they put Taj Mahal picture on its packaging, completed with the Poori recipe on the back cover. The 1 kg package was sold for Rp 14,500, and Rp 28,000 for 2 kg package. The flour smells really like the Quaker Oats, the color is a bit brownish, and the particle is rough coz it also consists of sprinkles of wheat.

Thai Curry Paste
I had never put attention to the instant seasoning every time I go to supermarket before I hunted for the instant curry paste to accompany my chapati cooking. In Hypermart and Giant supermarket, it's the Thailand curry pastes that are mostly available, with various flavors and brands. I choose to try Mae Ploy Red Curry Paste that costed Rp 10,500 but... the smell was strongly like terasi (just as mentioned in the package that it contains crustacea) and the taste was not as I expected. Actually, I had also found one Indian curry paste and Japanese curry bricks, but their prices are just too high.

Ok then, let's move on to the recipe:

Chapati

Ingredients:
- 1 cup whole wheat flour (in market known as Atta flour)
- 3/4 cup of water
- a pinch of salt
- little drop of cooking oil

How to make:
- Put the flour in a large bowl, sprinkle with salt, mix gently
- Create the hole in the middle of flour, add water gradually, mix until become a soft dough
- Sprinkle the dough with more flour if it's still a bit sticky
- Add some drop of cooking oil, continue mixing the dough until the perfect softness
- Rest the dough for 15 minutes
- Now its time for burning: pre-heat your skillet or non-sticky teflon
- Form the dough into + 20 cm log shape, divide into 4 smaller pieces
- Rounded the pieces into ball shape
- Take 1 ball, sprinkle with flour, evenly flatten with rolling pin until + 3 mm thick (use your feelings, not too thin, not too thick)
- Put the flatten dough on the hot teflon, set the flame to medium-high 
- The small bubbles will appear within 30 seconds, turn the chapati to the other side as the bubbles appear
- With the cotton napkin or the frying spoon, press and rotate the chapati to evenly distribute the heat to every side 
- The bigger bubble may also appear, this is the indication of a smooth chapati
- Turn the chapati one more time if needed, then put in the plate
- Apply some rub of butter to the hot chapati *optional

Tips: 
- Knead the dough until it's really soft, a little bit of sticky is fine
- Make sure to flatten the dough evenly, not too thin or not too thick
- Make sure the teflon or skillet is really hot before burning the chapati, the less hot teflon may result the less soft chapati

Vegetable Curry

Ingredients:
- 2 medium size potatoes, cut each potato into 8 pieces 
- 1 medium size of carrot, cut into dice pieces
- 1/2 cups of green pea, or can be replaced with leunca
- 2 pieces of tomato, chopped
- 1/2 pieces of onion, cut into fine pieces
- 1 piece of garlic, chopped
- half pack of curry paste
- 200 ml of water
- 2 tbsp cooking oil
- salt and pepper

How to make:
- Heat the cooking oil, saute the onion and garlic
- Add in the potatoes and carrots, stir well for 1 mint
- Add in the water, green peas and chopped tomatoes, simmer in medium flame for 3 mint
- Add the curry paste, salt and pepper until desired taste, simmer again with low flame until the water reduced and become thick gravy 

Tips:
- Add salt and pepper just after adding the curry paste to avoid over salt
- Select the appropriate taste of curry paste that suits your curry

Happy cooking!

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Stress's Curing

Anytime you feel stressful, depressed, disappointing, gloomy, or... (in extreme case) thinking about ending up your life by committing suicide....

I advised you to watch video of this hilarious chef on youtube. Trust me... it will brighten up your mood and make up your mind in case you are thinking of committing suicide. I really can't help myself not to watch more and more of his cooking video.

Sooo insanely hilarious funny chef!!! Namaste!




Thursday, November 28, 2013

Meet The Chapati

Soo craving for chapati, I decided to visit Plaza Festival's food court at Dapur Bollywood.


I ordered 'little star combo' menu --> 1 roti chapati, 1 eggplant and potato curry, 1 dhaal curry, 1 papada chip, and salad for Rp 40,000.

It was overall good and I got my craving paid, Alhamdulillah..... \(^_^)/

But... I got my curries a bit salty... and... since I was super hungry, this little set still leaves empty space inside my tummy.

I really really wanna give a try to make one by myself, I mean, a simple chapati one... 

Wish me luck!

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Vah Chef

Being so depressed, I switched on and off my notebook over and over. Then I decided to watch food video on youtube and I stumbled upon this hilarious funny Uncle with his Biryani recipe.


Thanks for returning back smile to my face... and for making me drooling also...

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Roti

I miss Indian food... So I do browsing to find recipe for Indian Roti named Chapati.

Aand... It has successfully made me craving more and more... *drooling*


I really really wanna give a try to make it with my sweet hands... But as I read on some online recipe, it uses whole wheat flour named Atta flour... And I think it's not gonna work well with Indonesian Segitiga Biru flour :'( :'(

Here goes the curry to accompany the Chapati...


Updates:
Here is an Indian Uncle shows us how to make another Roti named Naan


Friday, May 3, 2013

Chai Time

Just watched program masak di Trans 7: Bara Supercook and the host, Bara Pattiradjawane, he practiced the way to make chai. OMG... Padahal pas lagi iklan sebelum segmen chai itu aku baruuu aja terbersit keinginan untuk membuat chai, lalu tiba-tiba acaranya mulai dan ternyata... It's chai time!!! 

It has totally turned me on to be craving for chai... chai... Indian chai...

Ini nih tersangka yg made me craving for Indian chai
Hayoo... tanggung jawab om... (source)
So...
As it's so simple to make, I cured my chai craving by making it with the simplest way.

Bahan:
  • 1 kantung teh celup
  • 3-4 butir kapulaga
  • 1 ruas jahe digeprek
  • 1 tangkai kayu manis
  • merica butir secukupnya
  • gula secukupnya
  • susu atau krimer
Cara membuat:
  • Rebus air, lalu tambahkan kapulaga, jahe, kayu manis, merica butir, dan gula 
  • Setelah mendidih, celup-celupkan kantung teh sampai kekentalan yang diinginkan
  • Tuang ke dalam gelas, tambahkan susu atau krimer sesuai selera
  • Hot chai siap dihidangkan
  • Dapat juga dihidangkan dingin atau ditambahkan es batu bila suka

Karena keterbatasan bahan, jadilah aku bikin chai ala kadarnya hanya dengan: teh, gula, susu bubuk, jahe, dan daun pandan.

Hasilnya... Hmmm... Sadaaap... *fish and chef mode on*
Teman yang pas buat makan biskuit sore-sore dan lumayan meredakan my craving for Indian chai. Rempahnya masih kurang nendang karena cuma pake jahe dan daun pandan, but it's more than ok lah... I am very happy to drink my hand-cooking hot chai *sluuurrp*

Left chai source

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

May Day

What I did today...?


Cara membuat:
  1. Rendam kacang hijau selama 4-6 jam, sisihkan dalam wadah 
  2. Rebus santan dan beri garam secukupnya, sisihkan
  3. Rebus kacang hijau yang sudah direndam dengan takaran air 1 ruas jari lebih tinggi dari jumlah kacang hijau
  4. Tambahkan jahe 1 ruas jari dan 1 lembar daun pandan
  5. Masak hingga air menyusut dan kacang hijau merekah
  6. Tambahkan 5-6 sdm gula dan 1 sachet susu kental manis
  7. Lalu tambahkan santan hingga kekentalan yang diinginkan
  8. Aduk sesekali hingga santan mendidih, lalu matikan api kompor
  9. Sajikan bubur dengan ubi kukus yang dipotong kotak
Tips:
  1. Takar kacang hijau yang akan dimasak secukupnya karena walaupun kelihatan sedikit, kacang hijau akan mengembang dan jadi banyak setelah dimasak
  2. Jika memasak dengan panci bertekanan atau presto, kacang hijau tidak perlu direndam terlebih dahulu
  3. Buang busa/buih yang keluar saat kacang hijau yang direbus mulai mendidih
  4. Tambahkan gula saat kacang hijau sudah mulai merekah. Kacang akan butuh waktu lama untuk merekah jika sudah bercampur dengan gula
  5. Gula putih dapat diganti dengan gula merah atau gula jawa sesuai selera
  6. Santan juga dapat diganti dengan susu, atau dihilangkan sama sekali 
  7. Penyajian dapat dilengkapi dengan variasi lain, seperti ditambahkan kacang merah yang sudah direbus atau disajikan dengan roti tawar
Selamat mencoba... :)