Thursday, May 21, 2015

Morning tea

Had some lovely friends joined me for morning tea.

Ontbijtkoek with vanilla butter, cheese scones with strawberry jam, arem-arem, bolu tape, pisang goreng, cube cheese ( grape, raspberry, cut cheese on a cute skewer ) and risoles are served.

Saturday, May 9, 2015

East meets West. Crème brûlée recipe.

Crème brûlée rasa tape. Made this crème brûlée with fermented cassava. Too good..😋

Ing : 4 eggs
200 ml cream
300 ml coconut milk
sugar to your taste
tapai (fermented cassava) 150 gr, take the string out.

Method : bring to boil cream and coconut milk, set aside.
Beat sugar and eggs till pale and foamy then add cassava, mix it, then add the coconut mixture, mix well. Bake in the preheat oven (350 F) using a water bath method for 40 min.
Remove from oven and cool to room temperature.

Preheat oven to broil. Sprinkle sugar over the custard evenly then place under broiler till sugar melts about 2 mins. Watch carefully so as not to burn. Remove from heat. You may using a torch to caramelized the sugar.

Served chilled.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Kaastengels recipe

Kaastengels :

Ing : 250 gr butter
175 gr margarine
3 egg yolks
300 gr old cheese (grated)
250 gr self raising flour
25 milk powder

Method :
Mix butter, margarine and salt evenly
Add eggs into the mix
Add flour and milk powder then continue mix till well with slow speed.
Add grated cheese, continue mix it until it form a dough
Shape the dough into small pieces, brush with egg yolk and top it up with grated cheese
Bake for 15 - 20 mins in the preheat oven 350 F.

The picture below :
Indonesian cookie delicacies : enjoy today's afternoon tea with kaastengels (cheese shorbread cookies), nastar (pineapple tarts), putri salju (snowball cookies).


Sunday, March 29, 2015

Afternoon delight

Afternoon delight : pisang goreng, gethuk keju, lapis singkong and chily es dawet / es cendol for my kids. 

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Hosted a ladies luncheon.


getting ready with the table
Soto Banjar, vegetable stir fry, fried tempeh, bistik jawa (Javanese beef steak's style), potato cake, krupuk and sambal are served for lunch.
My signature bolu tape (fermented cassava cake), es dawet (Javanese cold beverage), and pisang goreng (banana fritters) for dessert
Indonesian tea is served

My signature bolu tape ( fermented cassava cake )