JAZZHOLIC

ay_link November 24th, 2007

Nope, didn’t wake up early this morning just to hunt items on ridiculously bargain sale, LOL.
This Black Friday - the day when all shoppers go nuts without having to explain themselves why (and others understand them completely), has never been such a ‘lucky’ day for me. And this year, even though I did check the ads thoroughly, I only aimed for two things: Western Digital MyBook External Hard Drive at the price of 90 bucks (which CompUSA and BestBuy online are both SOLD OUT *blah*), and iPod Classic (possibly in white, which I haven’t seen them around anymore. Are they becoming like a collectible item or something? Are all the 6th generation of iPod Classic sold out, coz I can’t find them ANYwhere).
Anyhoo. I only bought one item @ Target - The Holiday DVD (luv chickflick hee hee) and the price is so good, $3.98 haha… so proud of myself LOL

Well, well. So for the remaining of my Black Friday, we went to Little Tokyo (us, girls. cousin and her mom, and my mom.), it’s daughers&moms day today hehehe.
Went shopping at this Japanese mall/plaza; bought little goodies from this lil store that sell items for like a buck fifty (gosh I love this store), then we went to 2nd street, the usual place, then ate dinner around 4:30′ish at T.O.T — highly recommended especially if you have been looking for a great authentic, little donburi place like this one. (yes, I’ve been wanting it since last year haha what a dream comes true!)
T.O.T (stands for Teishokuya of Tokyo) has variety selection of donburi (rice bowl) and the four of us went in without much hesitation even though its rating shows a “C” (never take this kind of rating to heart too much coz one thing I can tell you, T.O.T ain’t a “C”! Foods are awesome.)

We ordered plenty to feed the four of us kekeke…
- Tempura Bowl Combo (fried veggie tempura no rice, served with salad, Japanese vegetable rice, which looks like a fried rice with slices of shiitake mushrooms and a bowl of udon)
- Chicken Nanban Bowl Combo (crispy chicken cutlets on rice, poured with donburi sauce and eggs plus homemade tartar mayonaisse sauce on top, along with miso soup and salad)
- Spicy Fried Tofu Bowl (fried Japanese tofu with spicy sauce on rice, served with miso soup and salad)
- Fried Scallop Bowl (fried scallops poured with donburi sauce with eggs on rice, served with miso soup and salad)

Gosh I love donburi! Haha.

Well, since I didn’t take picture using my own camera, gotta wait for dear cousin to upload them tomorrow. Hee. I’ll post some pictures tomorrow, but meanwhile, here’s a taste of their rice bowl menu.
Can’t wait to go back there again! Haha.

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ay_link November 23rd, 2007

For starter, TGIST! (Thank God It’s Still Thursday), hehe!
Well, as the calendar says, today is da turkey day, happy gobble-gobble day, Happy Thanksgiving.
A day of full celebration and this year, the family is celebrating it also with fried turkey and sushi included in tonight’s menu :D

The day when every business is closed including department stores, restaurants and even T-mobile toll-free customer service let their employees to take a day off to be with their families (I happened to have the need to call them this afternoon to check on my “Easy-pay” payment option which I don’t think they do a good job on it. Gotta call them again tomorrow to check what’s going on)

On tonight’s Thanksgiving Dinner Menu, we had:
- Turkey (fried; 12 lbs)
- Stuffing (my favorite Thanksgiving meal; made from a mixture of shiitake mushroom, rosemary, celery added into a batter of whisked eggs with cream. Oven for about 1 hr, and after that, it’ll look just like a casserole. Love it! I really can eat stuffing any day lol.)
- Mashed potato (errr.. not my favorite, but I guess I just love rice and noodle more to satisfy my carbs hehe.)
- Smashed sweet potato (yummy~)
- Garden Salad (with two types of dressing - the traditional Indonesian dressing called “Rujak Penganten” and the usual Thousand Islands dressing)
- Sweet corn
- Cranberry sauce (I actually ate it this year haha. Been skipping it a lot from the past-something years) - this time we used both raspberry and cranberry as the base, along with green apple (small cubes), walnuts, orange-marmalade, sliced oranges. Add some sugar to taste, and also orange liquor (which happened to have an expiration date 12/27. Phew!)
- Dinner rolls (King’s Hawaiian sweet rolls)
- Sushi (lots and lots of them. Compliment of our very own Chef Chris from San Diego hehe… yeah he made it himself, thank you very much.  Very deliz~)
- Pudding (vanilla-chocolate pudding, the traditional Indonesian milk pudding with its own ’sauce’, we call it ‘fla’ made from milk, sugar and corn starch)

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
I’m thankful to have this blog… a great place to brag around more about foods~ LOL!

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ay_link November 19th, 2007

A traditional Javanese cake, Kue Lumpur (”Lumpur” is mud, in Indonesian; and “Kue” is cake) is easy to make and such a great accompaniment to tea time and/or snack time.

Kue Lumpur/Javanese Mud Cake

Ingredients:
500g potatoes (boiled then mashed)
225g of sugar
7 egg yolks (2 white yolks only)
1 cups of coconut juice
1 cup of milk (for low-cholesterol, use more milk than coconut juice)
300g all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp vanilla extract/powder
150 g melted margarine
1 pandan leaf

Optional topping:
Raisins, Young coconut flesh (scraped out in this slivers, julienned), Cheddar cheese (thin sliced), Jackfruits

How-to:

Coat the kue lumpur pan with margarine/butter
*If you don’t have the pan above, you can use this kind of pan: Ableskiver pan

Step 1: (Preparing the potato mix)
Put the potatoes into a large pot, bring to a boil over medium-high heat or steamed with potato skin attached. Cook until potatoes are tender.
Put the potatoes through a ricer or food mill into a bowl.
Mix together with a spoon and add the milk & coconut juice.
Set aside

Step 2: (Batter mix)
In a large mixture bowl, whisk eggs, sugar and vanilla powder until the batter thickens
Add mashed potato mix (Step 1) into the batter then whisk add all-purpose flour one spoonful at a time. Make sure to lower the mixer speed when adding the flour.
Lastly, add the melted margarine and pour the batter into the pan (stove top baking method)
Halfway cooked, sprinkle each with your choice toppings.

Makes about 2 1/2 dozens

Note:
Pandan extract can be used also to make a greenish batter, instead of the usual yellowish kue lumpur. And if you prefer to use it, young coconut flesh cuts go really well with this.

Happy cookin’! =)

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ay_link October 27th, 2007

On the plate, triangular pizzas are Korean pancakes (Pajeon) with yellow peppers, green onions and spam.

Sitting on the chopsticks are last night leftover California Roll sushi (with imitation crab, cucumber and avocado), fried with Korean pancake mix batter that I made those pajeon with.
Must be this flour again next time. Love this flour. It’s so… workable, gooey and taste yummy too hehehehe…

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ay_link October 25th, 2007

Kue Mangkok

Price $3 (4 pieces)
darn expensive, no?
(”Kue” = cake and “Mangkok” = bowl)
I have no clue what the English name for this O_O
and also clueless how to make these pretty kue..
Since they’re so pretty and colorful, I couldn’t eat it until like a day later hahaha..
These pretty thing remind me of moo ji gae dduk (Korean rainbow rice cake) Yosi bought the other day (but oh boy, I don’t like the taste… too plain and tasteless for me). But these kue mangkok, they worth every penny I spent.
(3 bucks for 4 pieces. I can prolly get 2 dozen of them in Jakarta lol)

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