BOLU KERING JERUK (dengan video) / Indonesian vintage orange mini cake with video

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Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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Indonesian call this "bolu kering" means dry cake. "Dry" because the texture indeed dry outside, almost like a cookie.

And this vintage cake has been around for a long time. From several sources, this "Bolu" cake was very popular in the 1960s. The cake has various forms, some are fish, oval, or flower-shaped, and mostly has mini size.

The texture of this cake is a bit rough, a bit dry outside but moist inside. But it's super tasty and has a very distinctive aroma. Its light taste and small shape make it perfect for snacking.

Traditionally this mini cake consists of only 3 ingredients; eggs, sugar, and flour. Old recipes require emulsifiers too and for adding the aroma we use vanilla extract/ essence. 

The process also simple, just whisk the eggs and sugar until stiff then adding flour.

But today I will not share the traditional version. 

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Islak Hamburger / Istanbul street food; "Wet Burger"

Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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Istanbul not only famous for its historical and beautiful places. It is also famous for its delicious and unforgettable traditional cuisine which around centuries ago. Also as a tourism city, Istanbul grows as a street food-city as well. When you visit Istanbul, you should try "Kumpir" or baked potato stuffed with dozens of vegetables and some protein such as boiled egg and sausage. It is easy to find this "kumpir" all around Istanbul but famous spots are in Ortaköy area or Beyoğlu area. For a homemade version, you can check my "kumpir recipe" here.

But if you are in Eminönü area, you should love another street food there "balık ekmek" or Fish sandwich in Turkish style.

You might be interested in my "balık ekmek" / Turkish fish sandwich

If you watch "No reservation with Anthony Bourdain", you might see in one episode while he was visiting Istanbul and tried one street food at famous Taksim street-- Islak hamburger.

So today I will share that Istanbul street food delicacy.

Islak hamburger (or just ıslak burger) literally means wet hamburger. Sounds funny? maybe not. Cause this burger is actually wet and moist.

So what is "ıslak burger"?

It's one of our street flavors that many Istanbul residents are addicted to. A miraculous invention that looks like a shrunken hamburger from a distance 😃. Not really a "photographic" meal to show in your ınstagram post either. But we never doubt to call it "hamburger" cause, after all, it consists of a meatball between that hamburger bun.

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Soft Bread With Sausage Topping (Sausage bread) / Roti Sosis.

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Merhaba From Türkiye 👋


First of all, I'd like to thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you can come back, again and again, to check up on any beyond Indonesian or Turkish food or something sweets that you might love. Your comments and emails brighten my days and make this simple blog thing worthwhile 😍💛

Baking bread became my daily routine since I married 11 years ago. I didn't bake much bread back a long time ago before I married.

One, we (Asians) mostly eat rice and (or) noodles as the main carbohydrate source. 
We have bread as well mostly soft bread and it tastes somehow sweet. And we eat soft bread generally for snacking between the main mealtime or in our breakfast. 

Our bread mostly has various sweet toppings or filling even some use sausage and cheese as filling or topping.

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Strawberry and Chocolate hand pie

Assalamu'alaikum....... Merhaba from Turkey..

It's late post.... actually I made this few days ago but since early Ramadhan day 1 I've been busy with things around the house. And like many other time in Ramadhan I have a little less sleep. And thanks God this Ramadhan in summer time the weather is so friendly... so many rain... air is so fresh with bit of windy sometimes... It's really helpful to keep my energy still fresh during day light.

Today's post is simply easy strawberry with chocolate hand pie. It's so simple, quick, easy yet double yummy. Serve it with vanilla ice cream or simple whipped cream will be more delish. But I serve it with Kaymak, it's a creamy dairy product similar to clotted cream, made from the milk of water buffalos, cows, sheep, or goats

Mostly recipe I googling around is directly put fresh strawberry over the pastry dough but as my own experiences with fresh fruity pie, it will end up with wet and messy looking pie. Yes.. some people okay with that.. But this time I want my pie looks pretty as I bought from patisserie (*_*)... So I bake my strawberry before filling it to the dough. The result is so nice and yummy in taste yet pretty good looking hand pie...

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Pastel goreng yang renyah (Indonesian style vegetables crunchy pastry)

Still with Indonesian (kue) snack "parade" (^,^)
My today post now Pastel Goreng. Pastel is also part of traditional Indonesian snack which influenced by European cuisine. Pastel literally mean pastry and goreng is Fried in Indonesian language. So it is crunchy fried pastry, traditionally filled with vegetables e.g carrots, potatoes, green bean, onion and we put hard boiled egg (slice) in the middle. 
Now days, many filling variant such as rice noodle, etc.. but I prefer traditional one.
It served and eaten with fresh birdeye chilly or some region serve with pickles.

Frankly speaking I wouldn't make this snack when I was in my homeland... Many Kue seller with various and mouthwatering of Indonesian traditional snack along alley or streets. Start from street stall until big famous bakery shop.... Oooh how I miss my homeland now...

 And for you who want to experience this kue Pastel goreng, you can try it in your kitchen...


Check category Indonesian Snack (jajan pasar/ kue) for more Indonesian Kueh or snack.

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