Merry Christmas dear readers! This is the second Christmas cookie I made with the help of my son. He actually picked it out about a month ago because it looked so cute. Making this type of cookies was like playing with playdough Snowball Trees Makes about 36 cookies 1 cup unsalted butter, softened [...]
I don’t have a bake-a-thon this Christmas but I managed to bake two extra cookies today. The first one is this Cream Cheese Shortbread with Toasted Kenari Nuts. The inspiration was from a book I borrowed from the library, One Girl Cookies by Dawn Casale and David Crofton. Their book has good reviews everywhere and [...]
I’ve always loved Italian plums ever since I ate a handful of them off of someone’s homegrown tree. They were ripe on the tree and that’s when it’s the best time to eat them. I plucked one and bit into it, instantly I love how firm and sweet was the flesh. Since then I’m [...]
I have stock photos of some recipes that I made this summer; one of the is this glutinous rice cake cooked in coconut milk with palm sugar or wajik. This diamond-shaped cake is known as “wajik” in Bahasa Indonesia because it refers to the shape of it, and it’s traditionally made with lots of palm [...]
Beet Cheese Tart
I used to cook beet dish only for myself; now I have partners in crime, my parents. They will try my food as well, though I’m not quite sure if they like all of it. Sometimes what I cook will be too radically different than what they are accustomed to eat. Take this beet cheese...
Crispy Asparagus Balls with Pasta in Marinara Sauce
Boy, these past few weeks were thrown at me at full force. Between two rounds of antibiotics–though not consecutively–to combat awful bacterial infection, I was invited to a friend’s graduation picnic and I had to show up for orientation & training for a new job. The graduation picnic left me momentously happy since it marked...
Three satays
So I was presented with a question: what type of satay do you want to eat? My answer was: all of the three. I will have the basic chicken satay, the most flavorful one that is sweet pork satay, and let’s not forget tempe satay, a tried-and-true recipe that is simple to make with typical...
Spinach Böreks
For a long time I’m curious of how böreks taste like because I have never eaten one before. I imagine it to be crispy on the outside and creamy and tangy from feta cheese. Layer upon layer of crispy phyllo enveloping lightly sauteed spinach and feta cheese. This doesn’t mean I know how to make...
Eggplant Parmesan
I vow to eat lighter meal from now on and pretend I don’t see three luggages still full of Indonesian snacks… Sigh, you don’t know how hard it is to resist the temptation of not eating those snacks, and my other half doesn’t help either. He insisted that we have to finish all of those...
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This sanctuary is a means for me to express my creativity through food and photography. I am delighted in simple things in life so you will not see any pretentious in everything I write here.
My passion is in baking, whether it is Western-or Asian-style baking, I love them all. While baking doesn't always happen all the time, cooking is a must for me so what I cook is occasionally posted here too. I'm completely self-taught in both baking and cooking, everything you see here is all homemade.
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