This one cookies isn’t on the healthy list . I supposed you can make it as healthy as you can since it is homemade . I think anything that you make yourself , and you know what ingredients you put in to your cooked / baked goods , should be considered healthy ,right ? So , before this year i have never heard of kitchen sink cookies . Short story , i became friends with this older gentleman from the gym , honestly people like him inspired a lot of us younger people . He’s in his mid 80’s and still working out . One morning he brought me this…

My sister made bao buns not too long ago , i saw her on instagram post . We don’t live near from each other , she lives on the other side of the world , but we usually keep in touch through social media . So i saw her bao buns , and i mentioned she should teach me how to make it . In return she said ” you’re kidding right ? ” LOL .. She’s a pastry chef but bread dough isn’t really her forte , and i am on the other hand , love making bread stuff . She probably thought i wasn’t serious when i asked…

At the end of last winter , i made this croissant muffins . I guess it’s a trend in every bakery in the city . Although i have never heard about this before . I was obviously very bored and was looking for new things to try . So i arrived at Cruffins . I like croissant , who doesn’t ? And i don’t mind muffins either .. LOL . So it only makes a perfect sense that i gave this a try ! It is easy and not as complicated as old fashion croissant , that required so many folds . This one as long as you know how…

Today is friday and usually i get to choose to make something fun . Fun in this case is like comfort fun , fun to make and fun to eat it too . I get to cook and eat pretty healthy throughout the week , so usually the at end of the week , i get to make something , sort of like comfort food . And my pick today fell into peach crisps . Had about 2 lbs of peach that i bought couple of weeks ago and i really wanted to make something with it , my choice was only either cobbler or crisps . They’re very similar…

It was one of the weekend where it’s hot but i was thinking to make soup . Yes , crazy , but this morning i wanted to make Pho Noodles , it’s been months since i had pho noodles . Before lockdown was the last time we had pho noodles at our favorite Vietnamese restaurant . So i mentioned to my husband i wanted to get beef bones after the gym to make this soup . The soup would take about 5 hours to simmer , to develop its flavor , but he thought it’d be too long to cook in case we wanted to go out some place .…

If you’re just looking at this picture at a glance you wouldn’t think of it as a different kind pizza . It looks exactly the same of any of those thin crust pizza out there . The truth is ,the crust what makes this different . No , it doesn’t use cauliflower rice ( I’ve done it before ) It’s better than cauliflower since it uses meat as the crust ! This pizza actually is really good for weekday dinner . Great macros , super easy and not complicated at all . Of course if you’re looking for regular pizza with loads of carbs and fat , this might not…

On a hot summer day , the least you want to do is to be busy in the kitchen , turning on the stove or oven , and makes your house warm . Today , over here , is a hot day and it will be pretty hot throughout this week . So , i try to make something where it doesn’t require stove top or oven . So , slow cooker day it is ! This bbq pulled chicken is pretty easy to put together , you can either use chicken breast , boneless and skinless , or pork tenderloin . I think the chicken breast works great if…

We love tacos , my son loves tacos , i think he can eat tacos almost everyday , it’s his favorite food . No wonder when i was pregnant i actually ate mexican food almost everyday LOL. I remember my mother in law and i used to go out lunch every two days for mexican food , we loved the local taco shop back in Indiana , i am not sure if they still exists though . There are regular mexican tacos , there are fish tacos , so why can’t we use different seasoning for tacos ? Nobody says that you only have to use the typical taco seasoning…

This one is an easy peasy dessert or just afternoon snack with tea or coffee . Gluten free and it’s keto friendly , no flour required except you’re using Almond meal / flour . There are only 4 ingredients in this recipe , it’s all about technique , nothing else . Not overly sweet , you can even replace the sugar with Swerve . My family like this simple cake , it’s easy to make and it’s delicious . I made this yesterday afternoon and by night time , there was only 1 sliver left , from the 9 inch round cake pan . So .. figured they really like…

There are so many versions of curry , so i felt like i should add the ” indonesian ” word in it . LOL .. My mom used to make this dish quite often , she would call it ” Kare Ayam ” Kare = curry and Ayam = chicken . It is one of her favorite dish . I wasn’t really much into Curry back then . Although it was delicious , she would use whole chicken that she cut up herself and make a whole pot that would last us probably 3 days because there was only 2 of us . You’re required to make your own curry…

This dish is very similar to Shepherd’s Pie , Indonesians call this Pastel Tutup .This dish was highly influenced by European countries , particulary , the Dutch . Pastel Tutup along with Macaroni Schotel ( casserole type ) , snacks such as Dutch Sausage Rolls , known as Saucijzenbroodjes , and then Kaastengels or cheese shortbread cookies are some of the Indonesians favorite choices from the Netherlands . I remember as a youngster , we bought or ordered Pastel Tutup quite often , we didn’t own any oven so my mom couldn’t make this herself . In my opinion , this pretty similar to American chicken pot pie , except…

In short we can call this Kue Pia , because that’s how i knew them ever since i was younger . Growing up in a small town in Malang , East Java , there was this home business that specially made Kue Pia . My mom would stop by after church usually to buy some fresh ones , it came in a package of 5 . We never made it ourselves though since it’s really easy to buy . What is actually Kue Pia ? I’d say it’s a chinese flaky pastry that is filled with sweet beans filling , the filling can be red bean paste , which is…

So now that we have fresh , homemade delicious Tempe , what to do ? what do we use it for ? There are many ways to eat Tempe , you can pan fry , deep fry , with batter , as is , or steam , i never grilled them though . But i’ve had them in many different ways . The most famous one is to deep fry them , Indonesians love their deep fried food . Then eaten with simple warm white rice . Yum I really wanted to steam this tempe actually and made sambal my own , but i didn’t have some ingredients such as…

After that black bean burger last week for meatless monday , it got me thinking , it would be nice to have other option just from having beans or tofu as a protein source . It would be nice if i can make Tempe again . I’ve done it back in 2018 . My mom would have been laughing , either that or would be so proud of me , because my mom never made tempe herself . Tempe is widely available in the country i was born . It was sold everywhere at the market , sometimes you don’t even have to leave your house and there is a…

I have this one friend that i would never thought he’d go vegetarian .. so i think it’s been a month since he eats meat . So after chit chatting with him , i thought .. let’s give a meatless monday a try . Needless to say , last monday i decided we all going to have meatless day . Yes , breakfast , lunch and dinner without meat . It wasn’t an easy task , especially when i had some protein goal to reach , and it’s always harder to reach protein goal without the meat . I obviously had no issue going over the carbs with meatless monday…

Lately my husband been mentioning about Shepherd’s Pie often . He usually travels out of state for work and there is this one Irish Pub in Lafayette , Indiana that he goes to when he goes to that area for work travel . It’s called Nine Brothers Pub , i’ve only been there once , and i did not have their Shepherd’s Pie . My husband loves their Shepherd’s Pie , only thing i knew about it was that it was like beef , basic veggies , and mashed potatoes on top . Sort of like Pastel Tutup , which is Indonesian Pie , but instead of beef and we…

Years and years ago when i was growing up in Indonesia , we used to have this kind of bread they sell at the store , we called it Roti Sisir , it was more like a pull apart bread , except it’s thin , and wide , and each layer has sweet butter in between . Just like comb , so they call it roti sisir , sisir means comb . Recently i started thinking about this type of pull apart bread , i still remember how it should taste like , it was like a sweet dough base . So i decided to try it . The flavor…

Beef Rendang is one of those dish that is super delicious, full of flavor from all the spices used in the cooking , yet , you really can’t cook this too often . It is very time consuming , not that it’s hard , it’s just that it takes a long time for the flavor to develop and you want to get it right , otherwise you’re just having a beef curry . I grew up in a country where Rendang was originally come from . Although i wasn’t born in Padang , the area where this dish was from . I still got to eat them quite often ,…

I love one skillet , one pot type of meal . Sometime we get busy doing things ,and with quarantine over with , we have no time to mess around too long in the kitchen . Even if i do have the time , i prefer something easy and quick to prepare and less mess , which means less dishes to do . Don’t we agree ? This dish i called , dirty rice , because it’s basically i use pretty much whatever i have on hand as far as vegetable . The protein , i use either ground turkey or ground beef , i am sure it’ll be okay…

Few years ago i started making this home made italian pepper mix . We had so much jalapenos one year from our garden , and you know family of three can only eat so much fresh jalapeno . And you can’t really freeze it anyway , so what better way to eat jalapeno ? Well , we remember when we used to live up north , when we buy sandwiches , they usually serve it with hot italian pepper mix . Or some people would call it pickled peppers , i just call it italian pepper mix . I love this on sandwiches , but i eat it pretty much…