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Susamlı Gevrek Toplar (Sesame balls cookies)

If "plan A" didn't work... don't worry, there are still 25 more letters in alphabet (^,^)

Selam Everybody...Merhaba from Turkey....

Talking about alphabet... in Turkçe (Turkish language) we have 29 letters seven of which are (Ç, Ğ, I, İ, Ö, Ş, and Ü) but letters W, Q and X (replace by V, K and KS) do not occur in Turkish alphabet.

So Turkish has more than 26 other plans if "plan A" failed (^,^)
It was just an intermezzo from me.... the point is we should not give up on things we want to reach because - like other proverb says - many ways to go to Rome... right?

Well.... those are nothing to do with my recipe I'm going to share today because making this crunchy sesame balls you don't have to make plan A or B or C .... this snack is simple as it looks yet best companion for your tea or coffee time.

It's simple and quick to make so this is absolutely your choice when you have an unexpected guest come by.

This recipe I took from iyiyemeginsirri.blogcu.com with minor adjustments.

Jamie Oliver's easy Brownies

Selam Everybody..... Mehaba from Turkey....

Nothing can comfort me in this 8°C days better than hot Turkish tea together with this warm brownies...
Yes... I'm craving something chocolaty these few days....

And this time I use Jamie Oliver's recipe. This recipe should have dried cherries combined with roasted chestnuts... But I don't wanna anything in my brownies today so I skip those two. This is the brownies I like, gooey with yummy crust outside..just perfect for my chill lazy days...

This brownies absolutely gorgeous! Rich chocolate taste just like melting in your mouth, indulge your sweet tooth with its chocolate richness.. I just love it....
Maybe next time I will twist this recipe with cream cheese or walnuts...

Nasi Goreng Seafood (Indonesian style fried Rice)

Selam Everybody...... Merhaba from Turkey.

Rice is staple dish in Indonesia. We eat rice in breakfast, lunch and even for dinner. We make many food's variant made from rice. Not just for pilaf and rice cake (lontong or ketupat), we even process rice to become traditional snack and dessert.

And one of popular dish is Nasi Goreng or fried rice. Fried rice it self has many kind of varieties. You can check my lamb/mutton fried rice for one of variety.

And today I am gonna share my seafood fried rice. You can vary the ingredients as your liking beside shrimp and calamari as long as there is seafood in it, like fish meatball or slice of fish. And for the greens you can add some baby spinach too...

Make 4 shares

Ingredients:

• 500 gr white steamed rice (preferable left over one)
•3 medium calamari, cut into square or ring
•200 gr shrimp
•½ cup peas
• a hand full mung bean sprout
•1 spring onion, finely slice
•2 tsp oyster sauce
•2 Tbsp kecap manis/ sweet soy sauce
•1 tsp salt or to taste
•2 tsp black pepper powder
•1 tsp sesame oil
•2 + 1 Tbsp cooking oil
• 1 large egg, lightly beaten

Tiramisu Macarons Recipe

" Children Are Great Imitators...So Give them something Great to Imitate "

Selam Everyone..... Merhaba from turkey..

Been crazy about macarons these lately months since I've been (proudly) succeed to bake them few times with many variations. You can check my macarons recipes on "Macarons" category.

And as my promise to my self.... I must upgrade my self to try other recipes to see better comparison and upgrade me for better sense of baking this cutie adorable delish cookies. And today post I make Tiramisu Macarons using "How to cook that" basic macarons recipe. That link I give you is making macarons with caramel filling, but since I want to fill it with cream cheese (as husband request as well) so I modified a bit to be Tiramisu Macarons.

Compare to my basic macarons before, this recipe has sweeter taste....so if you have sweet tooth maybe this is for you ^,^ And also this is easy recipe and I think fail proof.

No "waiting time before baking" require for this recipe, so pre heat your oven right after you prepared all things and start working with your mixer. Once you finish piping them, put them right away into oven.... bang! you'll get beautiful rising feed you are looking for for perfect macarons.

Somebody use your Pin in Pinterest ... What would you do?

"Do good deed even it's small one. Stop sleaze even as small as a dust"

One day you open your pinterest account and get the message that someone "save" or "pin" one of your pin collection. But after you check, the "pinner" somehow has changed your pin link to their page link (NOT TO YOURS) ....
Does this include theft of cyberspace? Stealing your images / Pin and put their link instead of yours... only to gain visitors to their page.

Recently, I came across some accounts that "use" my images/pin on pinterest and change my link to theirs

Check these account:

GIY. https://id.pinterest.com/giy0102 (with link page: http://ziedox.blogspot.am)
DJR --> https://www.pinterest.com/djr0560 (with link page: http://cup-cakest.blogspot.se/)
FEH ; https://www.pinterest.com/feh0145 ( link page: http://tesfood.blogspot.se/)
FVK --> https://www.pinterest.com/fvk1010/food (link page: http://fodnx.blogspot.ie/)

Go there and check, maybe you'll find your pin/ image as well

SAY NO TO FAKE PAGE!

Update:

One day, one or two id already been removed as well as the web page link, but when I re-check some other day, they come up again.

If you are as annoyed as I am, please do share my post and check those link above, maybe some of your works are there also.

BAHASA INDONESIA

Suatu hari anda membuka akun pinterest anda dan mendapatkan pesan bahwa seseorang "menyimpan" salah satu koleksi pin anda. Tapi setelah anda cek, si "pinner" somehow telah merubah link pin anda ke link page nya.... Apakah ini termasuk pencurian dunia maya? Mencuri gambar / Pin anda dan memasanya hanya untuk menarik pengunjung ke page mereka.

Baru- baru ini saya menjumpai dua akun yang "mencuri" gambar/ pin saya di pinterest dan mengubah link nya ke link milik mereka....

Cek dua akun ini:
DJR --> https://www.pinterest.com/djr0560 (with link page: http://cup-cakest.blogspot.se/)
FEH --> https://www.pinterest.com/feh0145 (with link page: http://tesfood.blogspot.se/)
Mungkin ada Pin/ poto milik anda juga.

"Lakukan kebaikan walau sekecil apapun. Cegah kebatilan walau sekecil apapun kebatilan itu"

AYO LAWAN FANPAGE/ PAGE BLOG ABAL-ABAL YANG ASAL COMOT MILIK ORANG!!

Red Lentil soup with carrot and potato

Selam everybody....Merhaba from Turkey....

Autumn peak here.... even some area in southeast Turkey already snowy... West area like mine just counting the day because after "lodos"/ southwest hard windy few days ago temperature drops so fast..
And comfort food always gets along for these days.... It warm you up and feel light for your stomach. Just like this lentil soup. I enrich lentil with carrot and potato to twist the flavor of this soup.

Serve 4~5

My Kid's Favorite Chocolate Cookies

Selam every body.... Merhaba from Turkey.....

I already planed to make this cookies few days ago since my daughter keep asking me to make something with "animal character" ... Yes, I bought her these cutie cookies cutter with animal character so she can play with her homemade play dough. She loves her play dough so much and pretended she were a chef making cookie... She pretended to eat that cookies ^,^

And suddenly she asked me to make real cookie with those cookie cutters... so okay.... I was planing to make chocolate cookie because I know she and her baba love chocolate cookies much...I just need look for perfect time to make it...

So today my husband has 1 day off from office and stays home.... voalla..perfect time.. He can plays with my daughter while I make the cookies.... but seems she is more interesting "to help" me to cut her cookie with her cookie cutter ^,^

This is my best chocolate cookies... The buttery and crisp of this cookies I like the most. Use dark cocoa powder to get intense chocolate flavor and color. For this recipe I use 300 gr butter plus 100 gr margarine but feel free to use whole butter.

Try it and I'll guarantee your kids will love them too ^,^
I use animal character as my kid's request cause she loves animals recently ^,^ . You can use your own cookie cutter.

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