Ramazan Pidesi (Ramadhan pide recipe)..make it at home!

Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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Marhaban ya Ramadhan.... 
Ramazanimiz Mubarek Olsun...... Wishing you and family blessed and joyful Ramadhan.... May Allah accept all your prayers in this holy month.

In Turkey, the atmosphere welcoming Ramadhan is so warm and makes me feel a bit missing my homeland. Everywhere people say "Hayirli Ramazanlar" to each other as selam. I can feel that everyone rejoice to welcome this grace month......

And there is one bread which only found in Ramadhan month.... it's Ramazan pidesi (Ramadhan pide bread). Every public baker (halk fırını) or market sell this pide only in Ramadhan. It's slightly leavened flatbread with egg glaze and sprinkles with black and white sesame seeds. This pide is slightly more expensive compared to normal daily bread.

Here my recipe for you who want to make it at home. the method is the same as when you make bread, just you flatten it and glaze with egg yolk.... it's so fluffy and yummy to try...

make 2 medium pide bread.

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Tahu Acar (Tofu Salad) / Indonesian tofu salad

Selam everybody... Merhaba from Turkey...

I am so joyful and grateful because Ramadhan will soon start in these few days.... 

Ramadhan is the 9th month in Islamic calendar. The most important and sacred month to all Muslims and a month when we must "fast" during the hours of daylight which is part of our 5 pillars of Islam. The Qur'an was first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad during this month. The actual night that the Qur'an was revealed is a night known as Lailut ul-Qadr ('The Night of Power').

Ramadhan is so important for me and family. And since this 2015 Ramadhan month is on summer time, we must prepare our self so well due to in summer time we will "fast" about 16 hours during daylight. So healthiness and good stamina are become our priority....

Beside keeping our health... preparing Ramadhan menu is also preoccupation for me and for mostly Muslim moms .... We usually already have at least 30 kind of meals, 30 kinds of dessert and 30 kind of beverages for whole ramadhan month in our mind or written on sticky paper on fridge's door :)

Well... maybe next time I will share my Ramadhan menu also here... :)

And maybe my today post also can be an idea for your Ramadhan menu .... :)

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Cacık (Turkish style yogurt cucumber salad)

Cacık (read: Jajeek) is a dish made of seasoned yogurt mix with some vegetable such as cucumber, mint leaf or dill, olive oil, and garlic. Other variant people use purslane  (turk: semizotu). Some recipe use thick yogurt without dilute it and serve as meze (appetizer or side dish).
But mostly in my family I make it from dilute yogurt and we eat it as cold soup. It's just so refreshing and yet healthy in this summer time.

To make it is so easy and almost no effort and quick! All you have to do is just preparing all your ingredients near you then you go....

So here I share my daily recipe how to make this healthy dish.

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Strawberry Cheese Panna Cotta and Sunday's Election in Turkey

Merhaba from Turkiye everyone...
Today 7 June 2015... happy voting day for Turkiye...

Political wind warmly blows since these last few weeks before the peak of the general election day (genel seçim) 2015 last week. Everyone talked about politics and possibilities after elections later. From çay bahçesi / tea house(where Turkish people drink tea) nearly stand every inch in area where I lived, until at offices (at least at public offices that I know).

It seems everyone here is very concerned about politics and government, including my husband. He also got "political fever" like any body else.  Every evening after work, He watched all politic channel, from one channel to another .... ppffff ... I can not even watch my favorite show!

Well ... today the people of Turkish have fulfilled their rights in the election booths .... 
The result of Sunday's general election is a major blow to the biggest party now (AK Party), which has failed, for the first time since it came to power in 2002, to obtain enough votes to form a single-party government, although it is still the party that received the most votes.Well .... I only follow the news here. I'm not voter because I am not Turkish citizen ... Just wait and see where the political wind blows...But I found an interesting unique quote ...

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anywaayyy....enough about what makes hot in this fresh summer in Turkey.... Let's talk about something cooler..something delightful and yummy... yes... I made Strawberry cheese panna cotta for our weekend dessert at home.

Before stawberry season ending soon... I still grab some of it from farmer market last week. Some I made this yummy Strawberry Cheese Panna Cotta, and some I will make simply strawberry hand pie later (it's a plan *_*)

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Fish and Chips

Fish and chip... the meal that commonly eaten across British. One source said it's the most favorite take away food nationally. It's so popular among the British even beat Mac D ( 8 fish and chips outlets every 1 Mac D's outlet)

The potato is thought to have been brought to England from the New World in the 17th century by Sir Walter Raleigh although it is believed that the French invented the fried potato chip.

Both Lancashire and London stake a claim to being the first to invent this famous meal - chips were a cheap, staple food of the industrial north whilst fried fish was introduced in London’s East End. In 1839 Charles Dickens referred to a “fried fish warehouse” in his novel, 'Oliver Twist'.

The populace soon decided that putting fried fish and chips together was a very tasty combination and so was born our national dish of fish and chips!

A combination of Britain’s new railways and trawler fishing meant that fish could be reliably supplied inland, which coincided with chip shops spreading rapidly. It provided an exciting meal for the family that otherwise had to make do with the bleak fare of the Industrial Revolution.

Starting with just one chip shop in 1860, by 1910 there were roughly 25,000, and by 1927 there were 35,000, which shows just how popular the meal had become.

Fish and chips also had a role to play in both world wars. Due to their popularity, the government kept them off the ration list to increase morale and ensure basic nutrition for the munitions workers. Queues were often hours long once word got around that the chip shop had fresh fish! Winston Churchill even referred to them as the “good companions”.

So, there you have it; fish and chips, a national institution that’s considered by many outside it to be quintessentially British, owes its introduction to 15th century refugees, has provided nutrition and a morale boost during the Industrial Revolution and two world wars, and tastes great to boot!

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Martabak Manis Brownis (Indonesian style thick chocolate pancake)

Martabak or Murtabak or Mutabbaq is a stuffed pancake or pan-fried bread which is commonly found in Saudi Arabia (especially the Tihamah and the Hejaz regions), Yemen, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Thailand. Depending on the location, the name and ingredients can significantly vary. The name mutabbaq (or sometimes mutabbag) in Arabic means "folded". In Indonesia, the Murtabak is one of the most popular street foods and is known as "martabak".

There are many variety of martabak and martabak manis (sweet martabak) is another variant of martabak, also known as terang bulan. It's different from savory martabak, cooked over pan topping/ filling with many variants start from roasted peanut, chocolate and unsalted cheese. You can check other Martabak manis recipe here

This Martabak manis brownies is development and variation from classic martabak manis. People call it brownies it's because addition of chocolate/ cacao which make this Martabak manis become special and surely favorite of everybody.  😄
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Resep Sus Kering Keju / Cheesy choux pastry cookies

Resep dalam Bhs İndonesia ada dibagian bawah.

It is like a choux cookie snack because it's dry and crunchy as cookies. Back when I was in Indonesia, this choux cookies always served together with other traditional cookies typically for Aidhul Fitr celebration in our house. But we usually bought them ready from the store... we never made it at home (^,^)

But here, far away from my homeland... if I miss something I mostly couldn't find here... I must do more effort to have it... But by doing this I'll learn anything which I never thought I would learn/ do 

This recipe I adapted this from the Indonesian online recipe site Sajian Sedap. And here I write in English version for you who want to try this savory tasteful cookie..

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Orange Chicken recipe

Orange Chicken is an American Chinese dish of Hunan origin. The variety of orange chicken most commonly found at North American fast food restaurants consists of chopped, battered, and fried chicken pieces coated in a sweet orange-flavored chili sauce, which thickens or caramelizes to a glaze. While the dish is very popular in the United States, it is most often found as a variation of General Tso's chicken rather than the dish found in mainland China.

In most countries in the western hemisphere, the names "orange chicken", "orange peel chicken", "orange flavor chicken", and "tangerine chicken" are typically used for this particular dish. In Chinese, however, the dish is always known as "陳皮雞", literally "old peel chicken", referring to dried orange or tangerine peel, which is used in traditional Chinese medicine as well as cooking. For restaurants outside of Asia, fresh orange peel is often used instead, or even no peel at all.

My Today's post is Orange Chicken. I was searching and comparing some recipes across google... and they are typically the same with slight diversity and I found this recipe. The recipe I copied from Blogchef.net meet my taste (again, as Asian). 
And after I tried it... yes...indeed..this is the recipe that suits me in flavor. 

Here I re-write the recipe I use from blogchef.net with minor adjustments...

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