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Dadar Gulung Hijau Indonesian Filled roll pancake

Selam everybody....Merhaba from Turkey.

Green pancake stuffed with sweet grated coconut.

Suddenly I feel like want to eat this traditional green roll pancakes, miss it so much!. Been so long I do not eat this childhood snack. Back when I was in Indonesia I also had rarely make it at home, easy way, I just went to bakery which selling traditional snack or there would be somebody always around our alley selling many traditional snacks ...hhmmm... I just miss my homeland ...

Ingredients and how to make:
For Filling:
- 4 cup grated coconut (I use dessicated coconut)
- 50 gr palm sugar
- 5 tablespoons brown sugar (add more if you like more sweet)
- 2 tsp vanilla powder
- 1/2 cup water
- Pinch of salt
Heat the sugar and brown sugar with water and salt, put grated coconut and vanilli. stir over medium heat until the water a bit dry. Remove and set aside.

Sambal goreng santan telur puyuh & Jantung sapi ( Quail egg & beef heart in spicy coconut milk)

One of my favorite dish that I do not have long time. Since living in Turkey, mostly daily menus I make is Turkish. End weekly check inside of my fridge, there are quail eggs that I bought 2 weeks before, and a small part beef heart ... hmm .. thinking,what will make from those? Don't have any idea yet what will I make, I saw there is little remaining coconut milk which I already opened last week, thanks God it's still not yet expired, well.. so here you are, from those things now become

quail eggs mix with beef heart in spicy coconut milk (Ind: Sambal goreng santan telur puyuh & jantung sapi). Quail eggs also can be combined with beef liver or beef meat as your family taste.

Yes, it's authentic Indonesian food, with several spices mixture and a little hot spicy (only if you like hot spicy). Served with hot white pilaf (rice)

Ingredients:

- 300 grams of beef heart. Clean and cut into 2 cm cubes.
- 25 quail eggs. Hard boiled and peeled.
- 2 cups thick coconut milk
- 3 bay leaves
- 3 cm galangal. Bruised.
- 1 long red pepper. Seeded,finely slice lengthwise.
- 10 ~ 15 cayenne pepper (If you want more hot spicy, can be added as your taste)
- Salt and sugar according to taste.
- Enough oil for sauteing.
Mashed/ puree these ingredients:
- 3 cloves garlic
- 4 red onions (if using large red onion, use 1 / 4 parts only)
- 2 long red peppers
- 5 cayenne pepper (if you want more hot spicy can be added as your taste)
- fresh turmeric 1 cm
- 3 candlenut

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Rujak Apel dan prem Serut (Indonesian apple and plum shredded salad)

One of many other traditional Indonesian food. "Rujak Serut" or shredded spicy fruit salad. Usually made from mixture of various fruits are grated and given palm sugar and tamarind as sauce. Mostly added chili to give hot spicy taste. Really nice enjoyed while it's cold.

But this time I try another mix fruits variation, the green apples and green plums, both have a distinctive sour taste. No less tasty and fresh than other fruits combination.

İngresients and how to make:
- 2 large green apples. roughly Shredded
- 200 gr of green plums. roughly Shredded

sugar sauce:
- 250 gr palm sugar
- tamarind paste 2 tsp
- Pinch of salt
- Enough water.
- birdeye chillies to taste

ground birdeye chıllies and puree with salt and tamarind. Add palm sugar and small amount of water, no need too thin, just thick enough to make sauce.
Combine sauce with apples and plums that have been shredded before. Store in refrigerator before serving.

Enjoy.

My Chicken macaroni Soup

Change of weather that suddenly cold last week makes me somewhat less fit and have a cold. I rarely drink or want to consume cold pills. Usually I just drink a lots, consume vitamin C and ate my favorite soup.

And here it is my favorite soup, Chicken macaroni soup, especially when it got flu, so comfort at least for me...

Ingredients:
- 2 cup macaroni. Boil with salt until cooked. Drain and put some cooking oil in order not to stick to each other. Set aside.
- 300 boneless chicken meat.
- 1 medium-sized potato. Peel, cut into cubes.
- 2 medium-size carrots. peeled, cut into round or cube.
- 4 cloves of garlic. finely chopped.
- 1 teaspoon pepper powder (or to taste)
- Salt to taste
- leek. chopped for sprinkle when serving.

How to cook:

Breaking news from Indonesia

Please mighty God, protect our nation from your great nature.. And may Indonesian Nations given a strength to face all the disasters recently in my Indonesia land.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Recently, at 11:30 pm, Mount Merapi erupted again, spewing hot clouds as high as almost 3.5 kilometers. This is the second massive eruption along on this Friday (05/11/2010).
Observed from Balerante, colored balls and thick clouds rolled vertically into the air, with an estimated altitude reaches 3,500 meters. Because the wind from the north and northeast, the fungus blast moves toward the west and southwest. While the hot clouds glide leads to the upper Kali Gendol in the southeast. There has been no official reports of BNPTK about this eruption.
This information is direct visual observation, on Friday (05/11/2010) at around 11:35 pm. Some mountain slopes covered with thick black clouds . Relatively high seismicity detected by seismographs installed ringing signal on several posts to monitor. Residents on the slopes of the southwest, southeast, south and west requested extra vigilant.

As reported, the massive eruption of Merapi had previously occurred on Friday early this morning. Due to the massive eruption was carrying 55 people killed so far. Prone areas was extended from initially 15 kilometers has now increased to 20 kilometers.

Source : Tribunnews

Editor: Heru Margianto

Some picture release from Kompas.com

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com — Baru saja, pukul 11.30 WIB, Gunung Merapi kembali meletus, mengeluarkan awan panas setinggi hampir 3,5 kilometer. Ini merupakan letusan dahsyat kedua sepanjang Jumat (5/11/2010) ini.

Terpantau dari Balerante, bola dan gulungan awan berwarna pekat vertikal bergulung-gulung ke udara, dengan perkiraan ketinggian mencapai 3.500 meter. Karena tiupan angin dari utara dan timur laut, cendawan semburan bergerak ke arah barat dan barat daya. Sementara luncuran awan panas mengarah ke hulu Kali Gendol di arah tenggara. Belum ada laporan resmi dari BNPTK soal letusan ini.

Informasi ini merupakan pantauan langsung secara visual, Jumat (5/11/2010) sekitar pukul 11.35 WIB. Sebagian lereng dan tubuh gunung diselimuti awan tebal berwarna hitam. Kegempaan terdeteksi cukup tinggi berdasarkan denging sinyal seismograf yang terpasang di beberapa pos pantau. Warga di lereng barat daya, tenggara, selatan, dan barat diminta ekstra waspada.

Seperti diberitakan, letusan dahsyat Merapi sebelumnya juga terjadi pada Jumat dini hari tadi. Akibat letusan dahsyat itu tercatat 55 orang tewas hingga saat ini. Daerah rawan pun diperluas dari semula 15 kilometer kini meningkat jadi 20 kilometer.

Non Alcohol TİRAMİSU

This Italian Dessert is definitely Every one's favorite .... Combination of coffee taste in moist Sponge cake (or can be sponge finger) with delicate cream cheese plus a sprinkling a lot of chocolate ... hhhmmmm .... No other word than just t i r a m i s u

Materials and how to make it:
1 recipe of chocolate sponge cake recipe can be found here
Ingredients I:
- 1 cup cream cheese (or Mascarpone cheese)
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter. Softened at room temperature.
Whisk all ingredients I with electric mixer until completely mixed and smooth. Set aside. Ingredients I as a substitute for mascarpone cheese. So you can directly use the mascarpone cheese if any, use 1 + 1/2 cup, smooth it with electric mixer.

Ingredients II:
- 75 g whipped cream powder.
- 2 tbsp caster sugar
- 150 ml cold water
Beat using a mixer until stiff material II, Set aside and keep refrigerated.

Ingredients III:
- 4 egg yolks
- 2 tbsp caster sugar.
Boil water in a saucepan, beat eggs and sugar over hot steam above the boiling water (double boil system) until the eggs turn pale and the sugar dissolves. Set aside

Materials IV:
- 3 tablespoons instant coffee (can be reduced to 2 tablespoons if you do not want the kids too much coffee)
- 200 ml of warm water.
- 2 tbsp sugar (reduce to 1 tablespoon reduced if you reduce the coffee)
Stir to dissolve all the ingredients IV. Set aside.

Garnish:
Chocolate and cocoa powder to taste.

Assembling:
1) Stir and mix evenly ingredients I and II in a large enough container. mix in material III (egg mixture). Stir until all ingredients completely mixed, use mikser low speed only.
2) Prepare serving glasses or you could use spring form-- I use serving glass so I cut my sponge cake to glass size. Moisten with coffee mixture. Arrange on serving glasses, give cheese cream mixture,make it evenly smooth. Stacking with another moist cake and cream again, do same thing 2 or 3 stacks.
3) Keep in refrigerator at least 4 ~ 5 hours, sprinkle with cocoa powder and garnish as your taste before serving.

Enjoy while it's cold.

Dim sum dipping sauce ( Saus celupan untuk dim sum)

One of dim sum dipping sauce that can complete your dim sum menu or just for another dipping sauce you like.

Ingredients:
- 3 tablespoons chili sauce
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce *
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- small amount of water

* If using sweet soy sauce, no need to add sugar

Mix and stir all dipping sauce ingredients and cook over low heat until thick.

Ready to use.

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