Refreshing Watermelon Salad

I couldn't resist to make this salad after seeing the beautiful color of this salad at kraftfood kitchen. Fresh salad is always easy to make but refreshing effect will last long :-)

Original recipe is HERE, this recipe is using balsamic vinegar. But I chose Italian dressing and little bit honey, and it turned out good.

1/4 of whole watermelon (cut triagle shape)

1 cucumbers (cut half and slice thinly)

1/2 cup crumbled fat free Feta Cheese

2 Tbsp. chopped fresh mint

2 Tbsp. Italian dressing

1 tbsp honey

make it

COMBINE ingredients.

SERVE immediately.

Oven-barbecued Drumstick

This recipe is very simple, and the rating is also good. So I applied this recipe to chicken leg instead of turkey from the original recipe (kraftfood.com). Here is the link for Oven-barbecued Turkey Legs for crowds.

For me this recipe is Ok, but I want it to be tastier and bolder. Next time I'll marinate the legs with more spices.

Ingredients :

3 lbs drum stick
1/2 cup barbecue sauce
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp brown sugar
1/2 tbs mustard
Salt & black pepper

Direction :

PREHEAT oven to 325°F. Mix barbecue sauce, sugar, mustard, honey, red pepper and onion powder. Remove half of the barbecue sauce mixture; cover and refrigerate until ready to serve with the cooked chicken.

SEASON chicken with salt and black pepper; place in shallow baking pan.

BAKE 2 hours or until cooked through (165°F), turning and brushing occasionally with the remaining barbecue sauce mixture after 30 minutes. Serve with the reserved barbecue sauce mixture.

Homemade Durian Ice Cream

I haven't had any ice cream for two months...

Hello...it's summer :-)

Since I have to be really careful choosing what I eat due to my son's allergy, I can't have store bought ice cream which mostly contain milk.

I just made phone call to my mom in Indonesia, I remember she loves to make Durian Ice cream at home...and it was supper dupper yummy. I asked the recipe from her.

I was growing up in Indonesia, in a family who loves Durian...loves the strong smell of that king of tropical fruit :-)

So I decided to make it...

Ingredients : Durian according to your preference ( I use about 125-150 gram durian, Coconut milk 400 mL, Sugar 250 gram, Water 2 cup, Corn Starch 1 tablespoon.

Direction :

1. Make a simple syrup using the water and sugar.

2. Add coconut milk into the syrup.

3. In a blender, blend durian and some of coconut milk.

4. Let the coconut milk boil, and add no.3 . Let it boiled.

5. Add Dissolved corn starch (corn starch + 4 spoons of the mixture).

6. Stir it occasionally, until boiled. Cool it down.

7. Put in the container, freeze it.

8. Take the frozen mixture, beat it using hand mixer or hand blender until smooth. Put it back into the freezer. Do this step twice or three times to make it smooth and crush all the icy part.

Kidney Bean Soup (Sop Kacang Merah)

It's just an ordinary soup.

But it satisfied my hunger this afternoon.

Simply cook the dried kidney beans in chicken stock.

Saute sliced shallot and minced garlic, add sliced Italian Hot Dog.

Put the saute into cooked kidney beans. Add salt and pepper.

Last touch, sprinkle fried shallot before eating.

Pad Kee Mao

We love wide rice noodle, we call it kwetiaw in Indonesia. Now we can find many kinds of rice noodle creation at Thai restaurants. There are some menus using rice noodle as the main ingredient such as Pad Kee Mao, and Pad See You.

I tried Allrecipes.com recipe for Pad Kee Mao and modify by me :-)

My husband was very happy. When he sampled the noodle, he started acting like Food Network's chef, he said "hmmm it's very good, I can taste the basil, and the noodle is not overcooked, little bit spicy but It's good..."

For me, I enjoyed the sweet taste from the sauce mix with the hot spicy from sambal oelek, the aroma of basil also gives richness to this simple stir fry noodle.

• • 2 lbs rice noodles wide ( I used Sung Hing Noodle, Boston MA product, frozen one, thaw and cut).
  • 5 table spoons canola oil
  • 5 tea spoon of minced garlic
  • 4 table spoon thick soy sauce ( I used Indonesian Sweet Soy Sauce)
  • 3 tablespoons white sugar
  • 1 teaspoon pepper
  • 1/2 pound pork (any cut), thinly sliced
  • 1/4 pound of peeled shrimp
  • 1/2 pound chicken, thinly sliced
  • 5 table spoon of chilli sauce -- Sambal Oelek, or more to taste
  • 30 fresh basil leaves, chopped
  • 1/2 cup chopped green onion
  • 1 table spoon fish sauce
  • 2 tables spoon oyster sauce
  • 3/4 lbs bean sprouts
  
  

  Directions :

  1. Heat canola oil in a wok or large skillet over low heat, and cook and stir minced garlic until brown and beginning to crisp, 2 to 3 minutes.
  2. Stir in pork, chicken until the color changed, put sugar, soy sauce, oyster sauce, fish sauce, pepper, sambal oelek and mixed. Add shrimp. The meat will produce water, cook until the water reduced. We will use small amount of remain water to give taste to the noodle.
  3. Put the noodle into the wok, stir and mix with the meat, add basil and green onion. Lastly,stir in the bean sprouts. Cook and stir until heated through, about 5 more minutes.

  
  

  

Let's eat veggies!

I need something fresh at the same time quick and easy ...Cherry tomatoes, green lettuce and baby carrots are ready in my refrigerator. Fresh salad with Italian Dressing is one of my choice.

Let's eat :-)

Mung Beans Popsicle

Mung bean or green soy or green bean is very common in Indonesia.

People often made sweet porridge for breakfast from this kind of bean. We will easily find street vendors of green beans sweet porridge in Java Island.

At east part of Indonesia, Sulawesi Island, people love to make soup from it which is the taste is not sweet.

And also people use mung beans as filling for dessert or sweet dumpling, such as Kue Onde-onde (fried sweet rice with sesame seed) and Pia (one kind of layer pastry), bakpia (it's like pia, but smaller and have softer skin) and may other.

But last Friday, I made Indonesian Style of Popsicle using it. I made a big batch. I need to bring them as the dessert for barbecue potluck on Monday.

Ingredients : Water (about 4.5 quarts), Coconut Milk (800mL), Palm Sugar (250 grams), Brown Sugar (about 200 grams) Mung Beans (650 grams), Salt (1/2 tsp)

Direction : Boil the water, add mung beans into the water, cook until tender. Add palm sugar, mix until blend, the last, add coconut milk stir it, occasionally until boiled.

Let it cool. Take half of the mixture, put them into a blender until the beans smooth. Put back into the first mixture. Fill the plastic bag with the mixture, the same as I did HERE.

Indonesian Popsicle (Es Mambo)

SUMMER is HERE!!!...

I do enjoy ice cream during summer time.

But since last April, I found out my baby has allergic reaction to many kind of food.

One of them is dairy product (milk, cheese).

That causes me to restrain from ice cream this summer.

I'm thinking what kind of ice can replace ice cream for me.

How if I make my own ice cream using coconut milk as the cream.

But I remember I have some special plastic bags for making Popsicle Indonesian style that have not been used yet.

I made it from mung bean, palm sugar, coconut milk (I will post this kind of Popsicle separately). And I also made some other flavor from yogurt (of course they are not for me), I'd like to make it for barbecue party next Monday.

For strawberry yogurt flavor, I used just strawberry flavor yogurt with real fruit in it, and blend it using my regular blender. Just fill the small plastic bag with the mixture, bind the edge of the plastic really tight, and put them in the freezer.

For the mocca flavor, I mixed plain yogurt with mocha pasta, instant coffee milk, sugar.

MOCHA YOGURT POPSICLE

STRAWBERRY YOGURT POPSICLE

......it is fresh, cool and yummy...the way you enjoy it..tear the edge of plastic use your teeth :-) (where there's no bind), bite and suck the ice...slurrppppp....