what i eat today

Kelengkeng

2011-10-06T17:01:00.001+07:00

The fruit is in my country named kelengkeng, or it could be shortened to Lengkeng, in English is called Longan, and in other countries this fruit has another name (you can look it up on google search).
This fruit has a light brown color hard skin, to peel it you can use the tip of your fingernail to tear the skin that thin but hard, in inside you'll find white flesh fruit with a chewy texture and sweet taste, and in the middle you'll find the seeds of this fruit that round black and very hard, you can use these seeds as a substitute for marbles, or if you are fad, you can use it to tossed someone's head (not recommended).
When I eat this fruit sometimes not aware if I almost spent all the contents of the basket, this fruit has a distinctive taste and I love it.

Fried Carp

2011-09-27T10:34:00.000+07:00

I eat this while attending a halal bihalal reunion party with my high school classmates at "Saung Talaga" restaurant, this dish is actually just one of many foods are served.
This carp fried in lots of cooking oil or also called deep fried, the fish halved and sliced crosswise before being fried, eaten with warm rice, raw vegetables (lalapan) and chili paste (sambal), for refresher I drink coconut ice that served in the whole form of coconut fruit.
Saung Talaga restaurant is located at Jalan Raya Sawangan near Depok, West Java, this restaurant is a stilt houses over the lake where there are lots of fish, besides eating you can also ride a boat around the lake.
From Jakarta this restaurant located on the left the road, looking for "Saung Talaga" signs where there are rowing boat ornament, there are two entrances to the restaurant, the first entrance is located separately by the shops leading to the parking lot beside the restaurant, and a second entrance leading to the courtyard in the front of the restaurant, so do not be confused because all entrances leading to the same place.
This place is very convenient for dining with family or for a meeting with your friends.

Mixed vegetable with poured peanut sauce

2011-09-24T17:38:00.000+07:00

This dish is called Gado-gado in my country, a mix of steamed vegetables flavored with peanut sauce.
This is actually a Javanese version of Gado-gado where the peanut sauce is made separately and will be poured right before serving.
How to make it is very easy, you can use any kind of vegetables that you like in this dish, in the image is used bean sprouts, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes and tofu, all except tomatoes and tofu boiled until cooked, tofu fried in vegetable oil, and raw tomatoes sliced.
the peanut sauce can be made from ready-made peanut seasoning block which is diluted with water, or you can make it yourself from peanuts that crushed in a blender or pestle and mortar then diluted it with water after crushed well.
Served with hot rice and you can added with boiled eggs if you like.

Chicken Satay with Spinach.

2011-08-19T11:34:00.000+07:00

This chicken satay purchased at Pak Udin satay stalls on the edge of the highway near my house, satay is burned on charcoal flavored with nuts paste. I ate it with boiled spinach and a few extra sprouts.

Nasi Uduk with Salad

2011-08-03T11:11:00.000+07:00

To break the fast I eat Nasi Uduk with salad, unlike usual Nasi Uduk that served with Lalapan and Sambal (Chili paste), this Nasi Uduk served with salad and mayonnaise and fried potatos, with peanut sauce and sliced omelet as addition.
Salad which I mean here is a western-style salad, although Lalapan also can be categorized as salad, more precisely Indonesian-style salad.
Nasi Uduk is steamed rice cooked with coconut milk and other seasoning, and Lalapan is raw vegetable salad served with Sambal (chili paste).

Bakso and Unskewered Satay

2011-08-01T14:05:00.001+07:00

Today is the first day of fasting, so I ate just before dawn, called "Sahur." Today's menu is a Bakso and Unskewered Satay, Bakso is meatballs with broth, and the satay is slices of chicken meat that roasted with skillet, different from usual skewered satay that grilled over the coals, served with soy sauce mixed with chili and red onions.
Happy fasting for those who do it

Sweet Martabak

2011-07-30T14:39:00.000+07:00

This snack is glut food, a kind of pancake that folded in half and usually filled with chocolate, cheese or sweet black sticky rice.
The Sweet Martabak that I eat contains meises (sprinkled chocolate), the cake was thick and soft, with sweet chocolate inside, makes me want to eat more and more.

This food is called sweet because there are other types of Martabak that not sweet, which is called Martabak Telur (Egg Martabak or Salty Martabak), I will show if I eat it later.

Apple Chips

2011-07-29T14:07:00.000+07:00

Chips that I mean not a microprocessor chips from apple computers, but these chips are actually made from apple.
Made from thin slices of apples and then fried and put in a centrifuge until dried.
Apples used herein are "Malang apples," which is a kind apple who came from Malang City in Indonesia, this kind of apple is small and green, sweet and a little bit hard, this apple is very suitable for making various kinds of processed foods.

Combro

2011-07-28T09:16:00.000+07:00

Combro means "Oncom in jero" which in English means "Oncom inside." This food is categorized as a snack eaten in tea time in Indonesia, made from grated cassava filled with spiced oncom and fried in cooking oil.
Oncom is the fermentation of soybean dregs left over from making tofu.

Sari Roti

2011-07-27T11:31:00.001+07:00

"Sari Roti" is the brand name of bread sold around with a cart around my house.
The kind of the bread that I ate was "Roti Sobek" or torn bread, a loaf of bread that made up of several segments, each segment containing chocolate or cheese, and we just need to tear a piece when going to eat it.
The price is Rp. 9,500 or approximately U.S. $ 1.12, consists of six segments, delicious and cheap.

Javanese Vegetable Curry

2011-07-15T16:07:00.000+07:00

I really don't know the correct name for this soup dish, my mother told me this is a curry, more precisely this is a Javanese version of curry, where the yellow sauce made from a mixture of spices like turmeric, lemongrass, galangal, and others, just like materials for curry.
But this curry contains no meat just added with instant broth, served with diced squash, carrots and yardlong beans, so this dish can be called as a vegetable curry.
Eaten with rice and perkedel (potato cakes) and fried tempeh, also do not forget to add sambal (chili sauce), the sauce tend to be bland with bland boiled vegetables, but it was helped by the tasty perkedel and fried tempeh and spicy sambal, delicious...

Nasi Goreng (Fried Rice)

2011-07-13T09:43:00.000+07:00

This fried rice made by my mother, made of rice mixed with instant fried rice seasoning, with sliced sausage and cucumber.

How to make:
1. Prepare a skillet on the stove, put a little cooking oil or margarine.
2. Put in two plates of cooked rice and sprinkle with a sachet instant fried rice seasoning.
3. Stir until blended, then give the sausage slices and stir again, you can add soy sauce if you like.
4. Serve in a dish and put slices of cucumber.