Showing posts with label beef. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beef. Show all posts

Ox Tongue Steak - Transforming Yuck into Yumm!

Friday, April 1, 2011

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Is there anything in life that first you said iyuhhh..(read: yuck!!), but then you realized it tastes damn good? It is not a head turning thing, but at the end it makes your eyes balling as reaching excitement. This is one of a kind..the one to which once I got a strong gag, but when I dared to try it, I feel disappointment..yes, disappointment...why I did not have it long before? It tastes superb! Of course I did not own the recipe, got it from here with a little adjustment.
So here is the English version of the recipe, I know it is a bit long, but it is easy to follow

Ingredients:
- 1 ox tongue
- 1 Indonesian bay leaf
- 1.5 tsp ground pepper
- 5 cloves shallot, cut into half
- 1 Tbsp salt
- 75g butter/margarine

For sauce:
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 Tbsp tomato sauce
- 1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 2 clove
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp ground pepper
- 1 tsp salt
- 350cc beef broth
- 2 tsp corn starch, dissolve with a little bit of water

Potato puree/mashed: (I simply made it from store bought one/instant mashed potato)
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750g potato, boiled, peeled and mashed
- 1 Tbsp butter
- 150cc milk
- 1/2 tsp ground pepper
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

Sauteed mushroom:
- 50g mushroom, cut in half
- 1 tsp butter

Sweet stewed carrot:
- 350g carrot, cut (I used mini carrot so no need to cut)
- 1 tsp granulated sugar
- 1 tsp butter
- 1 tsp parsley, chopped (I skipped this one)
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg

Directions:
Making steak:
Dip the tongue into boiling water, peel off and clean up the skin and rough/hairy part. Then put some water (app. 2L) in a big pot, add tongue, bay leaf, pepper, salt and shallot and cook until the tongue tender. Take it out and drain off. Heat up some butter, then fry the tongue until golden brown, cut it out (0.5cm thickness).

Making sauce:
Saute onion with some margarine until fragrant. Pour beef broth and bring it to boil. Add salt, pepper, clove, nutmeg, tomato sauce and Worcestershire sauce, mix well. Turn down the heat and bring it to boil again. Add the corn starch mixture, stir instantly until thickened. Keep it aside.

Making mashed potato:
Heat up the milk, add cooked potato, margarine/butter, pepper, salt, nutmeg and mix it well. Cook on the stove until thickened. You may use decorating bag and tip to make the serving fancy.

Making sauteed mushroom:
Put the mushroom in a small pot with a little water then cook until the water almost gone. Add butter, stir well and turn off the heat.

Making sweet stewed carrot:
Boil water, add carrot and sugar. Reboil until cooked. Drain off the water. Keep it aside. Heat up the butter, add cooked carrot, ground nutmeg, and stir well. Remove from the heat and sprinkle some parsley.

To serve:
Arrange in a plate, tongue steak with all the side dishes and pour the sauce over.

Lapis Daging (Sweet Spiced Beef)

Friday, January 28, 2011

I got some beef in the freezer and no idea of what to cook, kinda bored of things we usually have, either soupy or dry one..So I just browsed around on the net and found this. Made it and we loved it!

Lapis Daging

Ingredients:
600g of beef (thinly cut into square 5x5x1cm)
750mL water
5 Tbsp Indonesian sweet soy sauce
2 Tbsp tamarind, dissolved in 4Tbsp water
5 clove
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp nutmeg
salt
sugar
oil for sauteeing
fried onion for garnishing

to crush:
7 cloves of shallot
5 cloves of garlic
5 pan-fried candle nuts

Directions:
Marinade the cut beef with the smooth spices, soy sauce, tamarind juice, pepper, nutmeg, salt and sugar and let it stand for at least 30min. Then sauteeing it with a little bit oil and keep stirring until it changes color. Add some water and clover. Continue to cook until the meat tender and stir it once awhile. Once it is done, sprinkle some fried onion. Serve it with warm steamed rice.

Color My Life - Black Pepper Stir Fried Beef

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Don't you just love colors? Imagine the world without colors, will be so boring! I love autumn, when leaves are changing colors, red, yellow and orange... And with the food, I love to have colorful foods on my table, and I try to get the natural ones as much as I can. So as autumn is just around the corner, I would like to share a recipe of classic stir fry using colorful veggies and beef. Hope you like it!

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Ingredients:
700g beef meat/rump, thinly sliced
2 red and yellow bell pepper, cut into squares
1 onion, chopped
8 cloves of garlic, chopped
1-2Tbsp of oyster sauce
1tsp of sesame oil
water app. 100ml or as needed
1-2tsp ground black pepper
oil for sauteing


Directions:
Saute onion and garlic with a lil bit of oil until fragrant. Add beef, stir and cook until color changed. Add oyster sauce and some water. Continue to cook until beef tender. Add ground black pepper and bell pepper. Cook for another 2minutes, do not overcook. Adjust the taste with oyster sauce or water. At last, turn off the heat and add the sesame oil and stir well.

Beef Galantine - Our After New Year's Dish

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

We spent the New Year's eve at home, a simple dinner with family and some sips of ice wine was simply nice. I did not get a chance to take pictures of the foods nor the moment that nite. When Pepy posted her drool-worthy miso soup for the masbar event, I just realized I must have been missing this monthly event. But then she and Rurie told me that Jan 5 will be the last day to post. So I managed to cook something and take pictures of it. Beef galantine is one of my favorite dishes. I made it just today and served it as our after New Year's dish. Happy New Year every one!

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Ingredients:
- 400gr ground beef
- 150gr bread crumbs
- 4 boiled egg
- 2 raw egg
- 4 cloves of shallot
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 2 tsp ground white pepper
- 1 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 Tbsp maizena/corn flour
- salt
- sugar
- oil for frying

Side dish:
- 3 carrot, cut into sticks and steam it for 8minutes
- 150gr harricot beans, discard the hard part and steam it for 8minutes

Crush shallot and garlic until smooth. In a mixing bowl, mix well all the above ingredients except boiled egg and corn flour. Mix it for sometime, until it is well mixed. Then add corn flour and mix it again. Place 1cm layer of this meat mix on aluminum foil and put the boiled egg in the middle (one for each). Wrap it as cylinder. Place all the cylinders inside a steamer and steam it for 45minutes. Cool it off and then fry it with enough oil under medium heat.

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To make the sauce:
- 1 clove of onion (Indonesian-bawang bombay), chop thinly
- 1 tomato, cut into 12
- 3cm ginger, crack it with pestle
- 1 carrot, chop small and thinly
- 1 can of sweet green peas (I skipped it this time)
- 1 Tbsp tomato paste
- salt
- sugar
- ground white pepper
- water
- oil for saute
- 1 Tbsp maizena/corn flour

In a wok, saute the onion and ginger for 3minutes. Add tomato and continue to cook and stir. Add some water, app. 300ml. Add cut carrot and cook for 5minutes. Add tomato paste and adjust the taste with salt, sugar and pepper. Add green peas and lower the heat. Add the corn flour solution (which was mixed with some water beforehand) while stirring it until the sauce thicken.

To serve, cut the meat cylinder and place it on a plate. Arrange the side dish on the same plate as well and then pour the sauce on top.

PPN#128: Beef and Spinach Lasagna - My Heaven...

Thursday, August 27, 2009

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Thing that makes my husband and me so different is pasta...I love them to die...but he is not a big fan of them. Thus I rarely cooked pasta at home. However, since he's joined the health and fitness club, got his own trainer and nutritionist to monitor what he's eating, he started to consume more pasta, especially whole wheat ones. That's yeay for me...
The other day, I prepared this beef and spinach lasagna. Got the recipe from here. I omitted some of the ingredients to match what I had in my kitchen.
I would love to submit this writing to "Presto Pasta Nights". This month is hosted by Helen. It is my very first entry for this wonderful event and I am so excited!


Ingredients:
- 1kg ground beef
- 3 cloves onions, chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 3 plum tomato, cut into small chunks
- 160ml tomato paste
- 250ml spaghetti sauce
- 2 tsp dried basil
- 2 tsp dried oregano
- salt and pepper
- 500g ricotta cheese
- 50g parmesan cheese
- dried parsley leaves
- 2tsp dried oregano
- 2 eggs, beaten with 1/2 cup milk
- bunch of spinach
- 750g of Mozzarella cheese, grated
- 50g parmesan cheese for topping
- 20 lasagna, cooked

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Directions:
Cook ground beef with some olive oil, then add onions, garlic and continue to cook until browned. Drain off all fat. Add tomato and mix well. Stir in tomato paste and spaghetti sauce, oregano, basil, salt and pepper to taste and bring it to a boil. Stir occasionally and simmer on low heat for 45minutes uncovered until thick. Preheat oven to 180C. Mix ricotta, parmesan, dried parsley, and oregano in a bowl. Add egg and milk mixture and stir well. Keep it aside. In a lasagna pan, arrange noodles layered with some meat sauce, then mozzarella cheese, more noodles, spinach and then ricotta cheese mixture. Layer by layer, again and again and end it up with a layer of noodles. Toss some meat sauce over the top layer and sprinkle with parmesan cheese. Bake uncovered for 45minutes. Allow to cool before serving.

Black Pepper Beef with Korean BBQ Sauce - My Mix Matching Expertise

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Black Pepper Beef

When I don't have any idea of what to cook, my ability of mix-matching comes handy. This time, I tried to use what I had in my fridge. Got some Korean bbq sauce, but did not want to smell smokies and did not want to clean up the grilling tool. So I just created this recipe. Yummo...

Ingredients:
- 500g lean beef, cut into small chunk
- 1 green bell pepper, washed, cut into small chunk
- 6 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 6Tbsp of Korean bbq sauce
- 1tsp of ground black pepper
- 2Tbsp of sesame oil
- a fist of dried sesame seed
- water
- salt and sugar

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Directions:
In a wok saute garlic with sesame oil until fragrant. Add the beef and stir until change color. Add the sauce and continue to cook until the meat tender. Add some water as needed. Add bell pepper and continue to cook for another 2minutes. Add black pepper, salt and sugar to taste. At last add sesame seeds and stir it well for a minute. Serve it with warm steamed rice.




I would like to submit this one for The Original Recipe-Monthly Round Up Event.

Sweet and Spiced Fried Beef (Empal Daging)

Thursday, May 7, 2009

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I had lean meat and thought it would be good for empal. I like the taste, like it like it like it...but I hate the preparation...and I hate the time spent for cleaning up after cooking, coz it is quite long process and needs both pot and pan meaning lot of things to wash. Oh well, got to take it anyway...ssstttt...luckily I have a wonderful husband who did the cleaning for me...woohoooo...

Here is the recipe...
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Soto Mie (Soto Soup with Egg Noodle)

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Soto Mie

When I missed my beloved country, Indonesia so much...and all of the convenience things you can get there...yes I am talking about the place where you can easily buy any yummy food as cheap as or even cheaper than if you have to cook them at home...where there are many hawkers and food stalls open almost all day long...(I am literally crying now....)
Since I could not just fly right home, I just prepared something that makes me feel at home..
Find the recipe here and enjoy the pictures.

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Indonesian Food Week - Sego Gandul

Sunday, April 26, 2009


This is a reposting of my previous post and my entry for Indonesian Food Week held by NCC organized by Siany.

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Sego Gandul or Nasi Gandul, literally means hanging rice...but do not expect that you will find the way it means by words. It is a traditional meal from Pati, Central Java. Somebody told me that because it is served with a piece of banana leaf lining the plate, it does not touch the plate, that's why they call it "Gandul", whereas "sego/nasi" means rice.
I was born in Pati, but I confess I had never made this meal before until the other day when I saw Titi and Ayin made and posted it on their blogs.
A year ago, my sister sent me the recipe through email and last week I went through my old inbox to find that particular message with the recipe in it, and I was happy to find it was still there. My sis got the recipe from a lady that lives in Pati, so I trust it is a genuine recipe.

Ingredients:
- 800gr of beef meat with a little fat (I do not like it too much fat)
- 4cloves of small red onion
- 8cloves of garlic
- 5 candle nuts
- 4cm of ginger
- 1tsp of shrimp paste
- 2tsp of ground coriander
- 1tsp of ground white pepper
- 1tsp of ground cummin
- 1tsp of ground kencur
- 4cm of galangal
- 4 lime leaves
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 10 of blanched chili paddy
- salt
- sweet soy sauce
- 1Tbsp of palm sugar
- 1/2 can of coconut milk
- oil for saute

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Side dish:
- fried onion
- fried tempeh
- shrimp crackers (I did not serve it this time)

Directions:
Boil the beef with water until tender, keep the broth a side for later use, and cut the beef into small cubes. Crush onion, garlic, candle nuts, ginger and shrimp paste in a blender until smooth. Saute it with a little bit of oil for 2minutes. Add coriander, pepper, cummin, kencur, galangal and lime leaves and stir it well. Add the meat and stir it. Add blanched chili, cinnamon stick, salt, sweet soy sauce, broth and palm sugar. Cook and stir until boiling. Continue to cook for another 10-15min, until all the seasoning immersed. Discard the cinnamon stick and then add coconut milk. Cook until boiling again and turn off the stove.
To serve, line a plate with a piece of banana leaf. Place a scoop of warm steam rice and then pour Gandul over. Sprinkle some fried onion and add some fried tempeh at side. Originally instead of spoon, they used "suru"-a small long piece of banana leaf to eat (see the first picture).

"Me Style" Thyme Seasoned Steak - etcetera

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

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There is always meat on my husband's plate. He will ask for it if there is none. He feels weak without it. And he is crazy of steak. What we have normally is Indonesian style, with coriander and sweet soy sauce as dominant flavor enhancer. This time (oh well...it was like 3months ago though...) I prepared it in a different way, it is more Western style.

Ingredients:
- whole chunk of steak meat (could be sirloin or tenderloin)
- olive oil
- dried thyme
- salt
- lime
- ground black pepper
- 4potato, cut into small chunk
- 200g of mushroom, cut into 4 each, washed

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Directions:
Place the meat in a bake tray or aluminum pan, drizzle and rub on the lime. Then smear the olive oil all over the meat. Sprinkle some salt, black pepper and dried thyme. Let it stand for 15minutes. Then bake it at 350F until done (You may add some water during baking, so the meat won't get too dry). For the potato and mushroom, just add olive oil, salt, black pepper and thyme and then mix it well and bake it at 350F until done. Slice the meat and serve it hot with the potato and mushroom. Add some salad and/or hot sauce as you wish.

Our Valentine's Dinner

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

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Things are not the same for us with the two kids around. One which a bit hard to do now is eating out or dining in a restaurant. Well our daughter loves to eat in a restaurant, but it is somehow hard to find a family-friendly restaurant in town, especially on specific days like during the weekends. This year, Valentine's day was on Saturday. The fact that it was a special day when people like to have fancy dinner at restaurants and it was on the weekend made all the restaurants were packed with people. So when my husband asked me where to go for dinner, I said no where. We decided to have dinner at home, considering it will be hard to book a place in a family-friendly restaurant or if we could get one, it won't be so comfortable to bring our two little ones. Having said that, it does not mean that we do not love to have kids around nor we regret to have kids. It just something that we must act and see it differently. And we are thankful to have two beautiful kids. Moreover, eating at home does not lessen our love toward each other. In fact we appreciate our partner more while working together to prepare the dinner.
The menu was Korean bbq short ribs and salad. My husband prepared the bbq and I made the salad.

The recipe of Korean bbq short ribs can be seen here.
The salad recipe is as followed

Ingredients:
- bunch of lettuce
- 3 stalks of celery, cut into 4cm in length
- bunch of mini carrot
- 2 tomato, cut into 12 pieces each
- Thousand Island salad dressing
- bacon bits

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Directions:
Mix all of the veggie in a salad bowl and then pour the dressing and sprinkle the bacon bits on top.

Left-over Files of 2008 Series, Soto Daging Bersantan (Beef Soto with Coconut Milk)

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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Remember about how I stored the beef in four bags which was written before? This one was the last bag, the fatty one. Soupy food is always good for wintery mood...

Ingredients:
- 700gr of beef, boil until tender and then cut into small cubes
- 6cloves of garlic
- 3cloves of small red onion
- 4cm of ginger
- 1 stalk of lemon grass, cut into 6cm in length then crack it with pestle
- 5 lime leaves
- 1tsp of ground turmeric
- 1tsp of ground white pepper
- 1/2 can of coconut milk
- 1L of beef broth
- salt
- sugar
- oil for saute

Side dishes:
- boiled clear vermicelli
- boiled egg
- fried onion
- freshly cut Asian celery
- Indonesian shrimp crackers
- Melinjo (Gnetum gnemon) crackers
- sweet soy sauce
- lime juice
- crushed chili

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Directions:
In a blender crush onion, garlic and ginger with a little bit of water until smooth. In a wok saute it with a little bit of oil until fragrant. Add lime leaves and lemon grass and continue to saute for another 2minutes. Add the meat and stir it well. Transfer it into a pot with the beef broth inside. Continue to cook until boiling. Add turmeric, pepper and coconut milk and stir it well. Add salt and sugar to taste. Wait until boiling again and then turn off the heat.
To serve, place boiled clear vermicelli and half of an egg in a bowl and top it up with the meat and soup. Sprinkle some fried onion and freshly cut celery. Add sweet soy sauce and drizzle some lime juice. You may add some crushed chili too. Add crackers at the side.

Bakwan Malang (Malang Special Meatball Soup)

Sunday, December 28, 2008



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While chatting with Deetha, all of a sudden I was craving of this special soup called Bakwan Malang and so was her. Yes, it has been 3 years I am away from my home country...missing the people and foods as well. Since we wanted it badly, we agreed to prepare it in our own kitchen and then posted it at the same time. I made this soup more than a week ago but this afternoon I just realized that today is the due date to post it (of course after reading her message on my shoutbox). So here is my version...

Ingredients:
- beef meat balls (bought them from Asian store in town)
- boiled and fried beef and shrimp wonton (see the recipe here)
- steamed stuffed tofu (see the recipe here, instead of frying it, steam it)
- boiled egg noodle
- boiled rice vermicelli
- boiled caisim/mustard green
- preserved cabbage (tongcai)

Optional:
- fried onion
- chopped green onion
- chili sauce
- sweet soy sauce

To make soup:
- 1lb of beef bones
- 6cloves of garlic, crack it with pestle
- 4cm of ginger, crack it with pestle
- 2L of water
- 1 beef broth cube
- 1Tbsp of sesame oil
- 2tsp of ground white pepper
- salt
- sugar

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Directions:
In a big pot, boil beef bones in 2L water until boiling. Add beef balls into the broth. Add beef broth cube, salt, sugar and pepper. Continue to cook for another 10min. Saute garlic and ginger with sesame oil and then add them all to the broth.
To serve in a bowl, place the noodles first, and then vegetable, wonton and tofu. Pour the soup and beef balls on top of it. Sprinkle some preserve cabbage and fried onion. Add some chili sauce if you like it spicy and sweet soy sauce to make it richer. Serve while it is hot.

Tongseng Sapi (Beef Tongseng)

Monday, December 15, 2008


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My husband bought a big chunk of meat, a-cut-it-yourself kinda sirloin steak two weeks ago. When he got home, I did not want to keep it frozen as whole, beside it would not be fit in my freezer. Thus, I cut it into four portions and place it separately in four freezing bags. I was able to separate the very lean meat from the fatty, two bags of cut lean meat and another two of fatty ones. I had cooked the very lean into beef rendang and Batavian beef semur.
Now for the fatty one, I decided to make tongseng. Normally in Indonesia, tongseng is made of goat meat. As for me using beef meat does not eliminate the yumminess though...
See the recipe here. This time, I added some freshly cut cabbage to the soup just before serving and some Indonesian crackers at the side.

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Korean BBQ Beef Ribs

Wednesday, December 3, 2008


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We love to do bbq-ing, even during winter and Korean style is one of our favorites. This time I used short ribs and marinated it with Korean bbq sauce and grilled it in an oven. The aroma of burnt and the sweetness of the juice is a perfect combination.

Ingredients:
- 8 cut of short beef ribs
- 100ml of rice cooking wine
- 3Tbsp of granulated white sugar
- 250ml of Korean bbq marinating sauce

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Directions:
Mix well sugar and cooking wine in a big container. And then add the marinating sauce and stir it well. Marinate the ribs in it for at least an hour in the fridge, the longer the better (I prefer to do it overnightly). Grill it in an oven at 350F for 30min, flip it over in the mid way.
Serve it hot with baked potato and salad.

Soto Daging (Beef Soto)

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

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This is the first time I made soto from scratch...usually I used instant seasoning - a time and energy saver...
I asked my friend Lucia for the recipe and add ground coriander to spice up. I ended up putting too much turmeric and turned my soto a bit bitter. Oh ya I had some side dishes to skip since I did not have them on stock...Enjoy my simplified recipe...

Ingredients:
- 1kg of beef
- 6cloves of garlic
- 4cloves of small red onion
- 1 lemongrass
- 4 lime leaves
- 1/2tsp of ground coriander
- 1tsp of ground turmeric
- salt
- pepper
- sugar
- water
- oil for saute

Side dish:
- bunch of bean sprouts (I skipped this one)
- clear vermicelli (I skipped this one)
- boiled eggs (I skipped this one too)
- fried onion
- green onion, chop thinly
- chili paste
- sweet soy sauce
- lime
- Indonesian crackers (kerupuk)

Soto Daging

Directions:
Boil beef with water in a pot until tender. Crush garlic and onion until smooth and then saute it with a little bit of oil. Add it to the pot and stir it well. Add the rest of ingredients, stir it well and adjust the taste with salt and sugar.
To serve, in a bowl place steam rice on the bottom and arrange bean sprout, vermicelli and boiled egg on top of it. Pour the soto, sprinkle chopped green onion and fried onion. Add chili paste, soy sauce and drizzle lime juice. Add crackers at the side.

Burger Anyone?

Friday, October 24, 2008

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After chit-chatting with Melanie the other day about what she's been doing these days, I felt like having burger to my comfort. To be honest, I wanted the ones from Harvey's, however somehow I'd never stopped by at any of its stall...either not having enough time nor never passing by nor forgetting when passing by...
Therefore the other day I just prepared it myself...4days in a row I ate these beef burgers in the morning...I think I am lengthening my waist line!
I do not think you need the recipe this time..so I'm just gonna share the pictures..let your creativity's gone wild with every thing you may like to add for your own burger! Cheers...

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Our Thanksgiving Dinner

Friday, October 17, 2008

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Last week end was a long week end for Canadian Thanksgiving's Day. Unlike American, we celebrate it in October, while they have it at end of November. My aunt who lives in California always says that it is better to have it in October since it is still ahead of December, not too close to Christmas, so that we would not be stuffed with good big portion foods twice in a row-or at a very close dates. And I agree with her.
This year we celebrated it at home all by ourselves, my husband, my two kids and me. My husband set up the dinner for us by preparing the main menu. By the time the food was ready, Bianca was too sleepy, so she went to bed for a nap, and we ended up having dinner without the kids (Jordan is too small for steak..hehehe..).

Sirloin Steak

The main menu was sirloin steak (see the recipe here, just replace the ribs with sirloin) and cheez-whiz spread-baked potato. I prepared fresh salad consists of romaine lettuce, red and green bell pepper, cucumber and tomato with Italian dressing.

Sauces

Not to forget some sauces to spice up the meal (cheez-whiz, Italian dressing, ketchup and Indonesian hot sauce). The drink was a glass of red wine (not in the picture), I only had a sip, considering I am still breastfeeding. We closed the course with a slice of marble cake (see the recipe here) and instead of having tea or coffee, we chose to have a cup of passion fruit (Indonesian-markisa) syrup with ice.

Marble Cake

We thank you oh dear Lord for all the good and bad things that had happened, it really shows us your mercy and guidance in every day of our lives. Thank you for the countless blessing and thank you just for our little happy family....

Chinese Beef Stew

Monday, October 13, 2008

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Our family like to buy this menu from a food counter at Asian supermarket in town. One of these days I decided to prepare it myself. I browsed around the recipe from the internet, mostly they used slow cooker to cook the stew. Since I do not have a slow cooker, I then came up with my own recipe.

Ingredients:
- 1kg of beef
- 4 potato, peel n cut into small chunk, deep fry until half cooked
- 150gr of mini carrot
- 3Tbsp of sesame oil
- 4Tbsp of soy sauce
- 4Tbsp of sweet cooking wine
- 6 cloves of garlic, crack it with pestle
- 1 star arnise
- 1tsp of Chinese five spices powder
- salt
- sugar
- water

Beef Stew

Directions:
In a pot saute garlic with sesame oil until fragrant and then brown the meat. Add all of the seasoning, mix well and bring to boil. Continue to cook until the meat tender, do not forget to cover the pot with the lid. Add carrot and cook for 3minutes. At last add the fried potato and continue to cook for another 2minutes.

Rawon

Saturday, September 13, 2008

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This is a typical beef soup from East Java, which characterized by dark color of kluwek (Pangium edule). The taste is combination of many spices added to the broth. This time, I just made it by adding instant seasoning, coz it is so hard to find kluwek in Canada.

Ingredients:
- 1kg of lean beef meat, boil until tender and then cut into small cubes
- 1 package of Munik brand Rawon seasoning
- beef broth from boiling the beef
- salt
- sugar

Side dishes:
- 4 boiled eggs
- 1 lime
- bean sprout
- crushed chili
- krupuk/Indonesian crackers
- steam rice
- fried onion

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Directions:
In a pot, boil beef broth and then add beef cubes and instant seasoning. Stir it well and continue to cook for 15min until the seasoning immersed. Adjust the taste with salt and sugar.
To serve, place the soup in a bowl and add raw bean sprout on top. Sprinkle some fried onion and drizzle some lime juice. Add boil egg, crackers, and crushed chili at the side. Serve it with warm steam rice.

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