Saturday, October 31, 2009

Ongol-Ongo

ongol-ongol is one of indonesia culture food with sweet taste

Ingredients:

100 gr. Corn starch
200 gr. Goela Djawa ( Palm Sugar )
1/2 a Vanilla stick or Vanilla essence

500 ml. Water
pinch of Salt
200 gr. grated fresh Coconut

Preparation:

Use some of the cold water to make a thin paste with the corn starch. Add the sugar, vanilla and salt to the water and boil until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and stir in the corn-starch mix. Return to the stove and simmer for a further 3 minutes. Remove the vanilla stick and pour mixture in a tray so that the liquid is about 2 cm. deep. Leave to cool and cut in to 2 cm. square cubes. Grate coconut flesh and add a pinch of salt. Roll cubes through the coconut and serve.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Nasi Pecel / Pecel Rice - Madiun- East Java


Pecel rice is one of the unique food culture East Java.vegetable when served with Present.a spices made from beans, brown sugar, lime leaves, chili and sauce taste.

The classic Javanese spicy peanut sauce.

Make it up in large batches because it will stay fresh in or out of the refrigerator for weeks. Then mix a few tablespoons with warm water whenever you want some gado-gado or nasi pecel.

1½ cup raw peanuts
10 small red chilis
2 large red chilis
2 tsp asem tua [mature tamarind]
6 lime leaves
2 cloves garlic
2 thumb-sized pieces of kencur
2 tsp salt
about ¼ cup gula jawa [palm sugar]

1. Fry peanuts in oil for about 3 minutes
2. Crush peanuts to a fine powery paste in a lemper
3. Remove peanut mixture to a separate container
4. Crush remaining ingredients in a lemper
5. Add peanuts and mix well.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Tiwul Ayu


Method category: Steam

Ingredients:

250 gr Palm Sugar
2 tbsp Sugar
2 Eggs
2 tsp Baking Powder
1 lt Fresh milk
300 gr Plain flour
Fine desicated coconut
Screwpine leaves and Salt
Directions:

1. Mix the palm sugar (grated), sugar and eggs until it smooth.
2. Put in the flour and baking powder into the mixture and mix until even while adding the milk little by little.
3. Pour in the mixture into mould and put in chopped screwpine leaves. Steam until cooked. Eat with fine desicated coconut which has been steamed first and given some salt.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Pempek Palembang


Pempek or Empek-empek Palembang is a typical food made from fish and sago. In fact it is difficult to say that the center is pempek Palembang is because in almost all areas in South Sumatra produce.
Serve accompanied by the sauce pempek black-brown color called chocolate vinegar or cuko (Palembang language). Cuko made from water that heated, and added brown sugar, Cayenne tumbuk, garlic, and salt. Cuko friend is eating pempek the faithful, made spicy to increase appetite. There are also sweet for the cuko do not like spicy.

Type pempek is the famous "pempek Submarine" is a chicken egg is wrapped with the pempek dough and fried in hot oil. There are also others such as pempek lenjer, pempek rounded (or familiar with the name "ada'an"), pempek fish skin, pempek pistel (young papaya sliced content that has been spiced stew), pempek small eggs, and pempek curls.

Pempek can easily be found in the entire city of Palembang. Have to sell in the restaurant, there is a cart, and also have a hit. Also, each school canteen certainly have to sell pempek. 1980, pempek seller can assume 1 basket full pempek around the city of Palembang while walking selling food. Pempek now there are two types, namely Parempek mix between Pare and Pempek.

According to history, there have been in Jakarta since pempek entry of Chinese Immigrants to Palembang, which is around the 16-th century, when Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II in the power-Palembang Darussalam Sultanate. Name empek-empek or pempek believed to come from a "stale", which is a descendant of an old man to China.

Based on Folklore, about a year in 1617 fuggy aged 65 years living in the area of assembly (edge Musi River) are concerned about witnessed abundant catch of fish in the River Musi. Of the catch is not entirely used correctly, and only a fried dipindang. The Sweaty and then try an alternative to other processing. He Giling mix the fish meat with tapioca flour, so that the resulting new foods. New food sold by the Sweaty biking around the city. Therefore, it is called as "stale pek ...", then the food is finally known as empek-empek or pempek. [1]

However, this story of the people should be more because of new cassava Portuguese introduced the nation to India in the 16 century. In addition velocipede (bicycle) new, known in France and Germany in the 18 century. However pempek is a very possible adaptation of Chinese food such as fish Baso, kekian or ngohyang. Initially made from fish pempek Belida. However, with increasingly rare and expensive price Belida fish, fish, fish is replaced with a cork cheaper price, but with the feeling that remains palatable. In the next development, also used other types of river fish, such as fish putak, toman, and persuasion. Also used the type of fish such as sea Tenggiri, Kakap Red, parang-parang, yellow tail, and the fish. Pempek one of the dough, there are many foods that can be produced, depending on the composition and processing, and end the pattern continued. Are Laksan, Tekwan, Model, and Celimpungan. Laksan and celimpungan presented in a sauce containing coconut milk, and while the model presented in tekwan dressing that contains the elephant ear, head of the shrimp, and other spices

Geplak is one of Jogjakara cultural food


Geplak food is typical of the city of Bantul,Yogyakarta(Jogja),Indonesia made from grated coconut and sugar or palm sugar, a sweet taste. There is also a food called as Betawi with additional materials such as rice flour and rough-skinned citrus leaves.

There is also geplak made from waluh. Geplak industry in general can be found in the area of Bantul, Yogyakarta, the most grown by home industries. Further developing this type of confectionery widespread due to market demand and not only grown in the vicinity of the city Yogyakarta will but also in the entire archipelago

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Mudik during Idul Fitri is an Indonesian culture


Otherwise those people won’t wait for their train for nearly 12 hours at Senen Station, Jakarta. This situation and condition won’t fit your senses if you’re not part of Indonesian. Train stations, bus terminals, airports, seaports all around Indonesia are crowded by millions of people waiting for departure to go back to their hometown. They have similar objective: to get together with their family. This is Idul Fitri, only in Indonesia.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Cuisine in Indonesia

While you likely have heard at least a little bit about Indonesia, the reality is that you actually may know very little about Indonesian culture and cuisine. Indeed, when it comes to cuisine and food related issues, what you likely know about Indonesia is that it is the location of the so-called Spice Islands. On the other hand, while you may have heard reference to the Spice Islands, it is very possible that you had no idea that these islands actually are a part of the Republic of Indonesia

Indonesia is a very unique nation in that it is comprised of over 17,000 individual islands, of which over 6,000 currently are inhabited. Moreover, throughout the history of this sprawling archipelago, a variety of different nations have seized control of all or part of what is today Indonesia. Therefore, there has been a varied range of influences on Indonesian culture and cuisine through the years, all of which are evident today.

The most significant influences on Indonesian cuisine has come from the Chinese, Europeans, Middle Eastern and Indian cultures. There are different regions in Indonesia at which these different influences on cuisine are far more pronounced.

Rice is the main staple food in the Indonesian diet - indeed, rice has been a staple in the Indonesian diet for centuries. Rice is served with sides dishes that are in the form of different meats and vegetables.

Spices play a significant role in different Indonesian dishes. Of course, as was noted at the start of this article, the Spice Islands are a part of the Republic of Indonesia. Thus, there is a ready source for different types of spices right in the country itself. In addition, various spices remain a significant export from Indonesia in the 21st century.

Spices (most significantly chili spice), coconut milk, chicken and fish are major elements of many, many Indonesian dishes today (and throughout the history of the region).

There are a growing number of ethnically diverse restaurants and bistros that are now open for business across Indonesia today. Once again, these different bistros reflect the Chinese, European, Middle Eastern and Indian cultures that have influenced the Indonesia archipelago for centuries.

As more tourists travel to Indonesia each and every year, a growing number of people are becoming exposed to the diversity and delight that is Indonesian cuisine. Indeed, as the number of people who visit Indonesia increases each year, Indonesian in all of its unique variations is becoming more available in different countries around the world. As more of the world does come to Indonesia, Indonesia is going to more of the world ... including the fine ethnic cuisine and regional cuisine that makes Indonesia unique in all of the world.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Did You Think There Could be a Cancer Research Cure?

Diseases from bladder, lung, skin, or even blood are able to be cured if this treatment is followed correctly. You can reach many goals. Those deadly diseases may well torment you, even once in your life. But in the back of the human mind is the belief that sooner or later there will be a cure for all diseases. What if there was a way to treat all this? Since the commencement of time, men have been searching for an element that could treat all ailments.

CONTAGIOUS AND NON CONTAGIOUS DISEASES Many deaths can be traced back to communicable diseases that in many cases could have been cured. Malaria, influenza and others continue to devastate people's lives in a large amount of the Third-world countries at present.

SO WHAT IS THIS ONE MINUTE CURE? Many folks just don't get enough oxygen into their bodies. You're probably skeptical about it. A research study from all over Europe has proven that mainly diseases are being caused by lack of sufficient oxygen intakes into the body. Sufficient amounts of oxygen have got to be carried straight to the cells and tissues of the body.

ISN'T THIS A FANTASTIC DISCOVERY? A CANCER RESEARCH CURE AND ALSO OTHER DISEASES AS WELL?

YOU ARE ABOUT TO DISCOVER THIS GROUND BREAKING SCIENTIFIC CURE! A natural treatment can actually protect your body from common diseases. It does not literally heal your diseases but instead makes your body heal itself from the disease.

THIS TREATMENT IS MIND BLOWING Your body will eventually build on accumulated toxins that are caused by low oxygen levels. Other folks say that these are toxins that have been eaten, come from the air around us or the substances that we take inside the body that cause this cancer. The second main concern is how to prevent from being exposed to these toxins.

WHY THEY SAY THERE IS NO CURE FOR CANCER The pharma-cartel is so powerful it had the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ban information on a cancer cure because of a financial threat to the health industry. Everything is intended to create the wrong impression and that the only cure is the medicine prescribed by specialists.

THE FORMULA TO CURE CANCER Simply add a couple of drops of a natural solution to 8 to 10 ounces of distilled water. The One-Minute Cure explains that it puts the body cells and tissues to an oxygen-rich condition. It is performed by delivering fresh oxygen molecules to the main body for the cells. Carbon dioxides, carbon monoxides, and other air-borne gases are what we breathe everyday.

CANCER "INCURABLE"? Their is an energy burning process that is also called sugar fermentation. An explanation has to be known about the metabolism of these tough and weak cells. This process releases lactic acid and carbon monoxide (not carbon dioxide). This is shows how our cells are starved of the oxygen that we all need.

CONCLUSION These diseased cells are in actuality destroyed once they are in the presence of pure oxygen molecules. Worry no more because here comes the system that will help all of us and save us from having faulty and damaged cells