Category: Culinary

Burrito Style Wrapped Fried Rice

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I was in the kitchen about to make fried rice for today’s breakfast when suddenly Qdoba burrito made an appearance in my mind. All the ingredients for fried rice were ready, but I still wanted burrito 🙂

Finally I decided to make fried rice wrapped in burrito style. Instead of mixing the eggs into the fried rice, I used them as my tortilla.

1.    Beat 3eggs, add a dash of cumin, salt pepper to taste, and 2 tbsp of flour. Mix until fully incorporated.

2.    In a non stick pan, heat 1 tbsp oil, spread ¼ of egg mixture to form a 10” diameter crepe.

3.    Prepare the filling for 4:
–       your favorite fried rice
–       seared chicken breast
–       lettuce
–       cheese
–       mayo

4.    Put the filling, wrap, and serve

5.    Bon appétit

Very Cocoa Nutella Pound Cake

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When I read the post about this recipe, it reminded me of my friend who is a big fan of Nutella and Dark Chocolate. The original version uses Nutella ( hazelnut spread ) but the writer of this post substituted it with dark chocolate spread. I thought why don’t just combine them and here we are … “Very Cocoa Nutella  Pound Cake”.

  • Preheat oven to 320° F.
  • Grease and flour the loaf pan ( 9 x 5 inch ).
  • Sift together 1 ½ cup flour, ½ tsp baking powder, ¼ tsp salt, set aside.
  • Lightly beat 4 eggs and 2 tsp pure vanilla extract, set aside.
  • Melt ¼ cup dark chocolate with 1 ½ tbsp butter ( double boiler method ), set aside.
  • Beat 2 sticks unsalted butter ( softened ) with 1 cup sugar until fluffy.
  • Gradually beat in the egg mixture until fully incorporated and add flour mixture slowly in low speed until just incorporated. Keep mixing for another 20 seconds.
  • Pour and spread ½ of the batter into the pan then spread 7 ounce Nutella on the top.
  • Top with remaining batter then spread the melted dark chocolate on the top.
  • Using the opposite end of a spoon ( or any kitchen utensil that similar ) make a light swirl to mix the chocolate spread into the batter.
  • Bake for 75 minutes, check with toothpick.
  • Enjoy !!

My special ingredients : Gratitude + 2 tbsp plain yogurt ( added before flour mixture )

Cucumber Salad

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This is a super easy recipe .. easy to make & easy to modify.

1. The Sauce

Remove the seeds of 1 red chili ( more if you like hot ), cut into thin strips. Mince the leaves of 3 sprigs cilantro. Combine chili and cilantro together in a bowl, add 2 table spoons lime juice, 1 table spoon soy sauce, 1 table spoon sugar, and 2 table spoons e.v.o.o, stir well. On this part you can adjust the ingredients to your taste. If you like sweet add more sugar, etc.

2. The Cucumber

Trim the end of 1 cucumber then cut the cucumber a long spiral way using potato peeler, stop just before the inner seed part. Make sure your potato peeler is in well condition, mine was not sharp enough and took time to make a long and nice cut.

3. Serve

Mix the cucumber with the sauce, sprinkle with roasted peanuts, add dried cherries. I also added blueberries just for fun. You can modify the toppings as you like.

Humble Fisherman Fish Stock Soup

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Karena Akong ( my mom’s father ) seorang pedagang ikan, mama sangat hobby memasak menu2 “fishy”. Kita anak2nya pun jadi penggemar seafood, ditambah slogan mama “makan ikan biar pinter!”. Ada satu menu yang berkesan bagiku karena meskipun sederhana tapi sangat bermakna, judulnya: Humble Fisherman Fish Stock Soup.

Mamaku berasal dari keluarga besar, 11 bersaudara. Begitu banyaknya yang harus diberi makan dapur seolah ngepul sepanjang hari. Ini adalah salah satu menu andalan keluarga saat itu, cara mudah untuk menyiapkan masakan dlm jumlah besar dan cepat, dengan kuali besar diatas kompor kayu bakar.

Aku beri judul Humble karena bahan terbesar menu ini adalah bagian2 ikan yang pada umumnya dibuang orang: kulit, kepala, ekor, tulang. Dari bagian2 ini justru akan didapat fish stock ter yummy. Mama membuat menu ini sekaligus saat membuat baso ikan tengiri. Sebagian dagingnya diambil buat baso, sisanya dijadikan bagian dari kaldu.

Long story short, here is the recipe :

1.   Iris halus 10cm ruas jahe.

2.   Iris tipis 2 lobak asin, jangan lupa rendam terlebih dahulu.

3.   Tumis jahe dalam minyak secukupnya, masukkan lobak untuk dimasak bersamaan, +/- 1 menit.

4.   Masukkan bagian-bagian dari +/-2 ekor ikan tengiri, tumis sampai ½ matang.

5.   Masukkan air sampai semua bahan terendam.

6.   Tambahkan baso ikan atau fillet.

7.   Garam dan merica sesuai selera.

8.   Perpanjang waktu 5 menit setelah mendidih.

9.   Masukkan cilantro dan minyak wijen.

10. Serve ( bagian2 ikan tidak perlu ikut dihidangkan, biar keliatan lebih menarik J )

Humble nya menu ini justru menjadi keiistimewaannya. kaya akan nutrisi dan history, reminds me to be humble.

Simple Chocolate Cupcake

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In my search for an ultimate chocolate cake recipe, I found this simple recipe and decided to give it a try. Well, my point is 8 out of 10 for this recipe, quite good. I did a little adjustment and added my secret ingredient which is now not so secret anymore after you read this post. If you add some frosting on the top, I think it will be yummier.

Ingredient :

–       4 eggs + 4 egg yolks

–       175 gr sugar

–       150 gr butter, melted

–       100 gr flour

–       20 gr maize flour

–       50 gr chocolate powder

–       the original recipe uses ½ tbsp baking powder, I changed it to ¼ tbsp ( just a little effort to be more natural ).

secret ingredient : Loving Kindness – most of us will agree if I say “when we think chocolate, we think love ( valentine )”- so try to meditate the love you get everyday while trying this recipe. Today I dedicated the cake to the unconditional love my mom gives to me J.

My other secret ingredient is yogurt. Most of the time I will add 1-2 tbsp of yogurt to any cake recipe, makes the cake more moist. I have proved it myself.

1.    Prepare the oven to 350° F.

2.    Beat together eggs, egg yolks, and sugar until pale and fluffy, add yogurt and beat for another minute.

3.    Sift all dry ingredients together and mix into the batter alternately with melted butter. Make sure it’s mixed well.

4.    Pour into cupcake paper cup.

5.    Bake, test with toothpick.

6.    Enjoy!!!!