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COCONUT MILK & GULA MELAKA AGAR | AGAR GULA MERAH & SANTAN
This is a pretty and super easy Indonesian dessert, rich with the flavours of coconut milk and palm sugar, but still light and refreshing. Again, as with so many Asian desserts, texture comes into play, this time with the use of agar agar, which is a setting agent made from seaweed. It is widely available…
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Indonesian Salad: Gado Gado Recipe
Indonesian version of salad is the one happily drenched with peanut sauce. The sauce should be thick, crunchy, sweet and spicy. There are basically more than ten type of salad using peanut sauce, so even if they all look and sound the same, they taste differently, according to some picky eaters. This is the famous…
Homemade Kaya Recipe: Coconut Jam
I am a kaya snob. We have been spoiled by our grandmothers, aunties and mothers that we only enjoy homemade kaya. Every family has their own version of homemade kaya, some thick, some runny, some yellow, some brown caramel-ish, some pandan green-ish. It is strange that kaya is only popular on this side of island.…
Powdered Sugar Doughnut
Donat Kampung. Our childhood memories do include powdered sugar doughnuts bought from street vendor. We consumed them vicariously not caring about calorie and sugar content and what it would do to our waistlines. Those were good days. As more and more modern eateries scattered around town, these are quite hard to come by. Do not…
Chocolate Chip Cookies
David Leite’s Chocolate Chip Cookies. The last week of waiting, hopefully, for the little person to arrive. It has been a very rewarding 9 months. I particularly enjoy the shopping bit. I ended up buying a lot of the wrong things and (hopefully) much more of the right ones. I got carried away and spent…
Sago Pudding
Coconut Tapioca Pudding.
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I am one of those people who love buying cookbooks and read them leisurely just to admire the photos. I had never spent more than 15 minutes in the kitchen up to three years ago, for cooking up noodles. We grew up Read More…