Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Home, Food, Family

Do you remember Anastasia movie from Disney about a girl from Russia Royal Family who seperated from her family when there's a tragedy caused by Rasputin the wicked witch? I do really love this movie that i couldn't stop watch it when i was 7 years old. Anastasia dying to death to find her home, love, and family so does my story. This is the Part II of my previous post (Journey to the center of Java). 

As I written before, we went back to my dad's hometown to celebrated the Eid Mubaraq last two weeks. It was a long long journey coz of the traffic jam AND this is the first since 18 years ago my dad visited his hometown (becoz of the he's bussy of work or something). We arrived in Madiun East Java after 22 hours a long and tired trip. But its all payed with their hospitality. 

Probably because of the Long-time-no-see effect, everybody looked so happy to see us. They also picked up us from the hotel and made a lil welcoming party if i might said. Just like Anastasia who finally found her family who lost, they served us like a royal family by served us some beverages, cooked us our favorite foods, gave us souvenirs and homemade cookies and lots more. Completely made me so happy!

(Kue Putu Jumbo)

I ate Pecel Madiun and Rawon made by my family. These are the best. Pecel is some boiled vegetables ( like bean sprout, spinach, cabagge, green mustard and other things) with a sauce made by peanut, shrimp paste, chillies and others (i will give the recipe later). Rawon is a black beef soup and the black soup comes from a black nut or kluwak in bahasa Indonesia or Pangeum Edule. There are alots of blogs who post the recipe but i can also give it to you (later~).

(Rawon and Pecel Madiun with prawn cracker in one plate)

(A box of Apple Juice from them)
A very nice journey and foods and hospitality. I love it so much. Maybe you should visit your family, friends, or relatives who rarely meet you. You will feel like the luckiest person in the world when they love you like there's no tomorrow. My journey hasn't finished yet. Because we continued the trip to another side of East Java. Looked for some favorite foods and some of from my dad's childhood. TO BE CONTINUE....

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Journey to the center of Java

No.. No, i won't talk about another sequel of this movie or something, but this is my story about my journey to my hometown. Well, central Java is not my hometown either but this is the route that we passed to East Java. Before i continue, let me say happy Eid 1433 H for all Muslim in the world. A bit late (Yeah i always late :P ) .. How was your eid? I bet you all enjoy the holly day.

Well, back to our own hometown @ Eid Mubaraq is the part of its celebration, People who migrate to the city, back to the hometown to celebrate eid with family. So did i.. I was born in capital city actually, but my dad comes from the place called Madiun in East Java. 

The trip to my dad's hometown was realy long and bored. We got a very bad traffic jam. We were really tired until we arrived in Semarang in Central Java. We planned to visit and buy our favorite food called Lunpia Semarang but my mom seems extremely tired and suddenly didn't want to visit anykind of place in Semarang. I was a half mad and a bit stubborn to forced the entire family to stop by in the lunpia shop (even my driver kinda mad at me for this stubborn decision) BUT I DID IT. We stopped and jump into this place!

(The Lunpia Shop)
                                                           
Lunpia is the spring roll that contained with chicken, shrimp, bamboo sprout and others ingredients. It is serve with a special sauce and spring onion and pickled. I love the smell, the taste and i it devide into 2 types: the friend and non-fried. I love the non-fried one :) The Sell it 10 pieces/box @ Rp 10.000/piece or $1. A cheap price for a piece of happiness..

( The Process)

( Non-Fried Lunpia Semarang and Spring Onion)
HAPPY?? Yes I was so happy for this Lunpia. But just an hour after the happiness, we got another bad traffic jam. So i grabbed my second Lunpia and the journey will be continue~

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Ramadhan Mubarak

Happy Ramadhan for every Moeslem in this universe! May God always showering us with blesses and fortunes in this special month. Amen!

Well talking about Ramadhan, I am sure its identical with fasting. Fasting identical with Iftar and Iftar it self identical with the food. In my country Indonesia, as the biggest moeslem population in the world, its realy easy to find some dishes to break the fasting (or Iftar). There are a bunch of food sellers on the street and you may not believe it, they are sell a lot of things and it will make you totally confused to choose. But after all its fun though. By the way, what is your favorite dish in Ramadhan? I bet the answer is kolak. For you who lives outside of my country or Asia, Kolak is a dessert contain with bananas or sweet potatoes (or any other tuber crops) and palm sugar, coconut milk and pandan leaves. It is good to serve hot or cold. Yoom~ 

Well, beside the dessert, people here loves to eat some gorengan too for iftar. Gorengan meaning Fried foods. Such as bakwan, fried banana, or lumpia (Spring rolls). I captured a pic of it in the first week of Ramadhan and now is about the 3rd weeks of Ramadhan. My mom prohibit me to consume some fried things so i don't buy any kind of gorengan anymore. Its not too good for health too. So don't over consume it.


Maybe its kinda late to post some Menu for iftar because Ramadhan is almost over. Soon but i still have sometimes to share some menu that i cooked during ramadhan. Some of them are just a simple one and easy to make. Like today, i really have no idea what to cook, so i just randomly grabbed the potatoes, and cooked it into potato carbonara. Maybe you guys already know how to cook it. or i can share my carbonara version later. Well, happy ramadhan once again!