Friends... Forever

My daughter's school had a picnic at the last day of school before summer holidays. As usual, my girl was playing with her best friends. When I took their photo, they were happy and smiling...

Happy holidays to you all!

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Photo by me.
Location: Parc de la Tête d'Or, Lyon.

Pinky Necklace

This necklace was specially made for my mother-in-law. I used wire work, stringing and another technique for making a pendant. All were inspired by two workshop I attended in Jakarta, 2007. And the main materials are swarovski bicone rose 4 mm, rose 6 mm and fuchsia 4 mm. Plus, rose cat's eye beads 4 mm and fresh water pearl - white rice.

I hope she will like it.


And the swarovski pendant I made last year in Andamari Workshop, until now, I still wear it. Why? Because I appreciate my effort to create that pendant, and I also appreciate my friend, Wulan, who taught me to make it. Thank's Wulan! And also thank's to your sister, Dian.

Baked Potato with Broccoli and Cheese

Reposted from My Multiply, Jan 17, 08.


Dulu sering ke resto Wendy's? Pasti pesan makanan yang satu ini dong... Jaman kuliah, aku belajar bikin ini sama temen. Dan akhirnya satu rumahku senang dgn menu ini. Palingan Bapakku (alm) yang pernah protes. Katanya begini, "Sitha, kenapa sih kamu masak makanan luar terus? Mbok sekali-kali masak sayur lodeh atau masakan Indonesia yang lain". Iya, ini gara-gara aku dulu sukanya bikin baked potato, spaghetti, macaroni schotel, mashed potato atau ngaduk salad dgn thousand island dressing. Pdhal sdh diajarin Bapak bikin tumis sejak SMP (gara-gara adikku bungsu lahir pas ga ada pembantu), namun tetap aja paling banter bikin sop sosis, bukan lodeh, sayur asem, etc. Kena deh ditegur Bapakku... hiks... Ampun Pak, sekarang udah bisa masak nasi goreng... Lodeh belum.

Setelah sekian lama absen masak baked potato, sekarang aku mulai lagi. Ini dia resepnya, disesuaikan dengan kondisi di rumah:

Ingredients:

• 300-500 gr kuntum brokoli
• 4 butir kentang ukuran sedang
• 1 sdm butter untuk olesan kentang
• 1 sdm butter untuk saus
• 2 sdm terigu
• 100-200 gr keju parut
• 300-400 cc susu
• garam secukupnya
• merica secukupnya
• parmesan cheese secukupnya, untuk taburan (optional)
  

Directions:

• Rebus/kukus brokoli, sisihkan (kalau direbus bisa ditambahkan sedikit garam).
• Cuci bersih kentang, oles kulit luarnya dengan butter sebelum dibungkus aluminum foil, kemudian tusuk-tusuk dgn garpu dan panggang di oven bersuhu 250 - 350 derajat sampai matang, kurang lebih satu jam.
  

• Untuk sausnya, pertama lelehkan butter dalam panci saus, angkat dari api dan biarkan agak dingin.
• Masukkan tepung dan aduk perlahan sampai halus dan rata.
  
• Tuangkan susu sedikit demi sedikit sambil tetap di aduk rata.
• Letakkan kembali panci saus di atas kompor dan panaskan.
  
• Masukkan keju parut, aduk sampai rata.
• Masukkan garam dan merica.
• Masak sampai meletup letup dan sisihkan.

Penyajiannya, letakkan kentang di piring, kemudian belah bagian tengah kentang sampai merekah, selipkan brokoli di sepanjang rekahan dan beri saus. Terakhir, taburi dengan parmesan.

Martabak Telor

I cooked martabak telor for a garden party with my neighbors. The party itself was for welcoming summer holidays. Yes, it had to be celebrated. So, since we had to bring food, my husband and I decided to make an Indonesian food as a starter (l'entrée salée) and a chocolate tart as a desert. Of course it was not me who made the tart...

I served my martabak telor with green chillies. "Well, you might try if you want to". The recipe was inspired from Resep Online which I modified according to our needs.


Ingredients:

• 30 Spring roll pastry, approx. size 20 x 20
• 6-7 Eggs
• 30 g Curry powder
• 1 Onion, thinly sliced
• 2 Onion leaves, chopped
• 350 g Minced beef
• 100 ml Coconut milk
• Salt
• Pepper
• Cooking oil

First, let's prepare the beef:

• Fry the onion until it becomes soft
• Add the beef, salt and pepper, cook until the beef is welldone
• Add the curry powder, mix well
• Add the coconut milk, mix well and cook until it boils
• Taste the salt, if it is not enough yet, add some more
• Add the onion leaves, mix and cook for about 30 seconds
• Set aside

When the mixed beef above is not too hot, add the eggs and stir well. Now it is ready to be filled into the spring roll pastry. Put one tablespoon of this mixed beef into the spring roll pastry. Roll and wrap like an envelope. And then, deep fry.

Serve with green chillies or chilli sauce, as you like.

Choco Banane Cake

My husband's skill in making deserts and cakes has influenced me little by little. Couple weeks ago, I tried to make my own choco banane cake based on my previous observations to my husband's work at our kitchen. Not difficult, in fact. Very berry simple to make this cake and the taste is absolutely fantastic...


Ingredients:

• 2 eggs
• 100 g sugar
• 100 g melted butter
• 100 g flour
• 1 sachet levure chimique (baking powder)
  
• 50 g fécule (a kind of flour made from potato -may be in english is starch)
  
• 3 bananas
• 3 soup spoons of crême fraiche épaisse (thick, not liquid one)
  
• 1 sachet sucre vanille (vanilla sugar)
  
• 100 g chocolate, cut into little pieces (or try the chocolate chips)
  

How to make it:

• Mix the eggs, sugar and melted butter (prepare the melted butter before so that it will not boil the eggs)
• Add the flour, levure and fécule
• Mash the bananas with a fork and add the crême fraiche and sucre vanille, mix together
• Add the chocolate, spread around as you like
• Bake for 45-50 minutes in 180 degrees

The brand of the flour we used is Francine. Francine has many kinds of flour. Usually we use Francine "Supreme", but when we tried with Francine special for "Gâteaux", the result was better. If you use this special flour, do not add a sachet of levure chimique as mentioned at the ingredient list above.

Ethnic Orange Necklace

I made this necklace based on request from my sister-in-law. The main materials are cat's eye beads in orange (size 4 mm and 6 mm) because my sister wanted to match the necklace with one of her colorful floral top.