Friday, November 11, 2011
WASC (white almond sour cream) by Rebecca Sutterby
Ingredients :
1 box mix (does not work well with DH since they changed their formula)
one cup sugar
one cup flour
1 1/3 cup water
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp almond if desired
3 whole eggs or 4 whites
one cup sour cream
2 tbs oil
*you can make this into any flavor by starting with flavored mix, and adjust extracts as desired . Bake at 325.
one cup sugar
one cup flour
1 1/3 cup water
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp almond if desired
3 whole eggs or 4 whites
one cup sour cream
2 tbs oil
*you can make this into any flavor by starting with flavored mix, and adjust extracts as desired . Bake at 325.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Potato Ball or Perkedel
I love this side dish since I was kid. But I hate if my mom made this and added ground beef. Yeah, you can...but I like it plain without beef or shrimp (my aunt Siok). If you buy this dish in pedestrian food in Indonesia...you'll find they have many kind of recipe. But the basic is like this
Ingredients :
- 4 russet potatoes, cook use steam method. You can deep fry too, but I like steam. Mash steam potatoes like you want to make mashed potato.
- 1/2 medium onion, chopped
Ground spices : ( I didn't measure them)
- Garlic
- Onion mix (optional)
- Salt
- Pepper ( black or white and crushed red pepper)
- 1 C bread crumb (plain)
- 1 egg
- Oil for deep fry
Mix all together, shape like small ball and fry until golden brown.
Put on paper towel to absorb the oil.
Mendoan (Tempeh Fritter)
This side dish came from Banyumas, a small city in Java. Very famous as a Tempeh City in Indonesia.
Tempeh for mendoan is special, the wrap soybean very thin...so, every mendoan is a big square thin tempeh dip in batter, then deep fry.
Mendoan means, half done.....yeah, originally they fry mendoan less than 1 minute. It's okay because the tempeh very thin.
I make my mendoan, completely done and crispy, I cut tempeh thinly.
So, this is it !
Ingredients :
Batter :
- 1/4 C rice flour
- 1/2 C all purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
ground spice :
- 3 garlic cloves
- 2 candlenut or macadamia, optional
- 1/2 tsp corriander
- salt and pepper, for taste
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
-water, I never measured the water....just if you look the consistency a bit thinner than thick soup.
- green onion, chopped
- 1 block tempeh, cut thinly and square
- Oil for deep fry
Heat oil in deep fryer or skillet. Mix all batter ingredients, dip tempeh in batter before you fry them..
Put on paper towel after done to absorb the oil.
Enjoy while warm, or you always can bake for 10 minutes in oven or toaster to make them crunchy if you want to eat them later.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Eggs Salsa
I didn't measured this recipe, feel free to adjust what you like and what you don't like.
Ingredients :
Grind all this :
- Chili...jalapeno, serano, thai, habanero...choose what you like.
- Tomatoes
- Onion
- Garlic
- Oil to fry
- Salt
- Vinegar
- Sugar
- 10 boiled eggs
Heat oil, medium. Add ground stuffs and fry about 3 minutes. Add salt, vinegar and sugar for taste..add eggs cook again about 5 minutes, low heat.
Enjoy !
Tofu, Tempeh and Potato Stew (semur)
In Indonesia we have this dish called "semur" I think from Dutch language "smoor" means, stew.
People make with chicken or beef with potato, this is the vegetarian version of this dish.
Ingredients :
- 8 oz tempeh, cube..fried half done.
- 1 block tofu, cube..fried half done.
- 2 medium potatoes, cube and fried.
Grind spices :
- 4 candlenut or macadamia
- 5 cloves garlic
- 1/2 medium onion
- 1/2 medium onion, chopped
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp coriander
- 1 T sweet soy sauce
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 stack lemongrass, smashed
- 1 tsp shredded ginger
- 2 tomatoes, cubed
- 2 T oil
- water
- salt and pepper for taste
- sugar
Heat oil inside a pan, medium heat. Put chopped onion in the pan, fry until soft.
Add ground spices, keep stirring...add all the spices and tomatoes. Cook about 2 minutes, add water then tempeh, tofu and potatoes. Add salt and pepper, taste it..add sugar if needed.
Cook until the gravy thick.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Pizza Crust
Try to make your own pizza crust, the topping is your imagination....sky is the limit for topping.
Easy enough to make crust.
Ingredients :
- 2 C all purpose flour
- 1 package active yeast or 2 1/4 active yeast (if you buy in bulk like me)
- 1/4 C olive oil
- 1/4 C shortening, omit this if you want your crust crunchy
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 C warm water, no more than 115F
Mix all in standing mixer bowl, use hook..let the mixer working. Once dough become one rough ball, set timer for 8 minutes.
Then let the dough rest for 1 hour.
If you don't have standing mixer. Mix all in a big bowl, be ready with extra flour if the dough to sticky. Just dip your hand in flour and back to knead, until smooth about 10 minutes.
After 1 hour, your dough ready to use.
Happy cooking !
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Basic Butter Cake
I'm using this cake recipe as a basic for many cake. You can make almond or macadamia or marble...the limit is sky. Very easy cake and very moist...
Ingredients :
- 2 C butter, softened
- 3 C sugar
- 6 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 C all purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- a pinch salt
- 1 C sour cream
Preheat oven 350F. Grease 2 pans, 9" or 8" ....or 1 bundt pan.
Sift all dry ingredients, in one big bowl.
Mix with medium speed, butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, one by one, add vanilla. Turn to low speed.
Add dry ingredients, a little by a little (maybe about 4 part).
Add sour cream, mix well.
Pour into pan and bake about 50 minutes - 1 hour
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- Yvonne
- Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
- I'm just a house wive with many hobbies. Cooking, card making, baking (especially pastry), diving and the new one caking. I never thought I will decorate cake or cook before. In Indonesia, the country where I came from...maybe with people whom I knew..friends and families, no one vegetarian. Only me and my son...something odd for them. Sometimes I felt uncomfortable when they looked at me strange..I could read their mind " this lady is freak ". Once, I ordered fried noodle in restaurant. Special request..no meat, no shrimp, only vegetable. They added sausage and meat ball (bakso in Indonesia language). When I complained, the waiter said : But that's sausage and bakso. Geez, I didn't know what I have to do. I'm Budhist. So, after that I just said I'm Budhist and they respect more than vegetarian..hahaha. About cake, hhmmm...never made beautiful cake or delicious cake. I like cooking or baking just for myself and my son...until I met my husband Keith. He opened my eyes. I can cook delicious and I found the last thing I can bake nicely too. Thanks Honey !!! I still need to learn still newbie..
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