I recently bought a new recipe book by Primarasa called Tumis Sayuran 15 Menit. The recipes in this book is quite easy and suitable for an amateur cook like me, plus it’s amazingly quick to cook. So, today I tried this bitter gourd recipe for lunch. I love bitter gourd and I usually made an omelette out of it. The result is delicious and SC loved it, so I think I’m going to try some other recipes & post the results here (when I’m not too lazy/sleepy to write after cooking & eating).

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Found this recipe in this month’s Martha Steward Living magazine, It’s quite interesting as it uses neither garlic/onion nor olive oil and uses plain yogurt for the sauce instead. As we’re lazy to go out in the rainy afternoon, I cooked this for dinner. The result is a light pasta dish, not as savory as when I use onion with bacon, but it was satisfying.

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As today is Ied Mubarak, I was browsing for an easy Lebaran dish to try but couldn’t find one. So I decided to make Indonesian style yellow rice (nasi kuning) and Indian style chicken curry for our lunch today. I substituted the coconut milk with plain yogurt. Turned out the recipe I used was quite spicy

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I love savory rice, so when I saw V’s post on her blog: Pork and leek over ginger rice, I decided to make it for lunch. The instructions are quite easy. I ran to the supermarket to buy some ginger, leeks and chicken (couldn’t find pork, so I substitute it with chicken breast). The result was a very fragrant rice and the chicken works well with leeks. It was a delicious lunch. Thanks V.

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Ever since I watched It’s Complicated, I became interested in making the croque monsieur (French ham & cheese grilled sandwich) myself. I heard it was easy to make and if I were to eat one at a French cafe/bistro It will surely be expensive. So I googled for the recipe online and found several variations in making the dish. I decided to choose the simplest one from here and modified it a bit to suit what I have in my fridge. I made this for breakfast and it was a very fulfilling dish.

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One of my favorite childhood breakfast is minced pork congee which I usually bought at a stall in front of a kopitiam near my parents house. Since I live in Jakarta, it was very hard to find the same congee whenever I craved for it. Once I’ve found it in a kopitiam at Teluk Gong, but on my next visit, they seller had moved. So this morning, I tried to make it for breakfast. I once tried to make this congee using rice cooker, which ended up a disaster So this time, I make it using a soup pot. It was quite easy and I didn’t follow the exact recipe, I just add water whenever I felt the congee is too thick

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Last night we participated in earth hour by turning off the lights from 8:30PM to 9:30PM. I decided have a candle-lit dinner with an easy-cooking dish. All I have to do was buying a piece of chicken breast, lemon, lettuce, and gathering everything I have in the fridge. I have some ’san tang’ oranges and cherry tomatoes. Plus, I still have some vintage cheddar, Dutch gouda and Kraft’s Italian balsamic dressing from Ronny G (Thanks Ron!). The chicken recipe was modified from the Inspiring Tastes cookbook: Cajun Barbequed Chicken (again, thanks Ron for the book)

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This is supposed to be my weekend project, but I was too lazy to cook last (long) weekend. As I was afraid that the ingredients might gone bad, I tried to make it this morning before going for work. Turned out, it required about 45 minutes to cook. As I ‘m running very late for work, I left all the dirty dishes to SC. I hope he finds the taste well worth the effort

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