Hello, just want to play around with graphic and text this time :) The little text on each image might not be readable, but that’s the links from wikipedia, where I got the description of each fruits and vegetables. Just little things to show my admiration to wikipedia and their 24h shutting down action to protest against the piracy law. It was a strange day, because usually when I want to know about something, I go to their site, that 24h without them, I felt kind of lost.
Anyway, I did this photos a while ago, and they are kind of my favourite set. The risotto was divine, thanks to the beautiful zucchini from the notorious Gede Green from Bali Rungu organic farm. Got all those beautiful vegetables above from him.
I have been too busy to go to the Ubud organic market, and just when I thought I might be able to go tomorrow, I got a notification for a meeting. Oh well, maybe next Wednesday. My tummy is rumbling now, I will go now to prepare some rockets+carrots+parmigiano salad with some polpette I made last week (made a big batch and freeze them for lazy cooking days like this…although my lazy cooking days seem to be in longer and longer period) *doh!

Hello, hanya ingin bermain dengan teks dan grafis kali ini :) Tulisan kecil yang ada di setiap akhir dari penjelasan di foto mungkin tidak terbaca, tetapi itu adalah link dari wikipedia, darimana saya mendapatkan semua penjelasan tentang buah dan sayuran yang saya foto. Hanya sedikit ungkapan kekaguman saya terhadap wikipedia dan juga aksi menutup wikipedia selama 24 jam untuk memprotes hukum tentang pembajakan di internet. Hari itu adalah hari yang aneh, karena biasanya ketika saya ingin tahu tentang sesuatu, saya biasanya tinggal membuka website mereka, tetapi selama 24 jam itu websitenya tutup dan saya jadi merasa ‘tersesat’ ketika ingin mencari informasi.
Lalu tentang foto-foto ini, saya sudah memoto ini beberapa waktu yang lalu, dan ini adalah salah satu set foto favorit saya dan saya ingin berbagi dengan anda. Risottonya enak sekali, terima kasih kepada Gede Green dari kebun organik Bali Rungu, saya membeli semua sayur dan buah diatas dari dia.
AKhir-akhir ini saya terlalu sibuk untuk pergi ke pasar organik di Ubud, baru saja saya pikir saya bisa pergi, ada telepon untuk rapat besok pagi. Saya harap saya bisa pergi hari Rabu depan.
Sekarang perut saya sudah keroncongan, jadi say akan pergi untuk membuat salad dengan wortel dan arugula dan keju parmesan, kemudian memanaskan polpette yang saya buat minggu lalu (saya membuat banyak lalu saya masukan ke dalam freezer, untuk hari-hari malas memasak seperti hari ini…yang rasanya semakin lama semakin bertambah saja hari malas memasaknya) *doh!

1. It is SO good to be home!
2. Vegan muffins are awesome!
3. Carrot plant’s flower is beautiful!
4. Oh, is now 2012?
5. Happy new year!!!
:D

Yes the pasta is boiling in the kitchen, I am writing another article and the sound of Balinese gamelan whispering through my kitchen window. Home is the best place on earth.
This will be just a quick post, I just want to share the article I wrote for Elle Decoration Indonesia, December/January edition:



And who’s this girl? :)





Oh, my pasta is ready…gotta go!
Warmest hugs from me! xx

Yes they have :) New design for the blog, a bit chaotic, some posts are still with the old format, some posts are already with the new format, and I am not even sure I like this new design, but it is okay, I’ll get myself used to it for a few days, and if I still don’t like it, I’ll think of a new design :)
And about me…emmmm….still the same :)
About the house, I finally put some curtains (just realised they do make differences, now the house feels more…private haha)
Andddddd……I know it is hard, but, I will try to post in two languages: English and Indonesian. Well, the thing that made me decided to do this was a movie: My Fair Lady, starring Audrey Hepburn, there Professor Higgins (one of the main character, an Englishman) said: “Oh why can’t the English learn to speak? Use a proper English you are regarded as a freak” :) Ha! I feel the same about my own language. So, I decided to use it more, and more properly. Starting from now!

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Ya! Desain baru untuk blog, sedikit berantakan, beberapa post masih dengan format yang lama, beberapa post sudah dengan format yang baru, dan saya tidak yakin apakah saya suka dengan desain yang baru, tapi tidak apa-apa, saya akan mencoba membiasakan diri untuk beberapa hari, dan jika saya masih tidak suka, saya akan memikirkan desain yang baru :)
Dan tentang saya…emmmmm…masih sama :)
Tentang rumah saya, akhirnya saya memasang beberapa tirai (saya baru sadar bahwa tirai membuat rumah terasa berbeda, sekarang rasanya lebih…privat haha)
Dannnnnnn…saya tahu ini sulit, tetapi saya akan memulai menulis dalam dua bahasa: Inggris dan Indonesia. Hal yang membuat saya memutuskan untuk melakukan ini adalah sebuat film yang dibintangi oleh Audrey Hepburn: My Fair Lady, dimana seorang karakter orang Inggris bernama Profesor Higgins berkata: “Oh, kenapa orang Inggris tidak belajar bagaimana berbicara? Bila kamu berbicara bahasa Inggris yang baik dan benar kamu dianggap sebagai orang aneh” Ha! :) Saya merasakan hal yang sama dengan bahasa saya sendiri, jadi saya memutuskan untuk menggunakannya lebih sering dan lebih benar. Mulai sekarang!

I found this tumblr last night through my cousin Tal - a naturally talented baker and musician. She makes freakin’ awesome frosted cakes! Oh, and the cutest cake pops too :) - Anyway, I have been addicted to it since. It is called Things Organized Neatly. After scrolling through tons of neatly organised things, I realised I have few weak spots (although I don’t always admit it) for:

1. Neat Organisation :)


perhaps with a slight deviation:


2. Repetition


3. Molded food

well…not always… :)

4. Precision

I cut things like this. People think I use ruler, but I don’t, I just…do…cut like this :) Now, please don’t think I am slightly deranged :) I like rough and rustic too, like I mostly torn my salad leaves with hand and I torn bread with hand too and my kitchen is a mess too. And my hair too :) So, I guess these balance things a bit :)

Two days ago, I read a post on Susi Johnston’s blog about Karen Waddell’s blog being the first food blog in Bali (Susi then kindly edited the title of her post). And of course my first reaction was commenting that I thought that’s not possible, that many people had blogged before Karen started. Then she replied that she didn’t seem to be able to find any. So I tried. And, funnily, it is true, I can’t really find any Bali based food blogger.
Strange. Is it really only me, Carla and Karen who blog about food here in Bali?
I really hope not.

Anyway, since I am here, I want to share one place I love to go to get my fruits and vegs in Ubud: Ubud organic market every Wednesday (less packed with people) and Saturday (packed). There are usually too many people that it is hard to take photographs there, so I shot some of the things I got there at home.

Organic soy milk from Dle. They sell plain, palm sugar soy milk and chai soy milk. To be honest I prefer mine, but you know, on one of those lazy days… :)

Definitely the best passion fruits I ever ate in my life. They are from Bali Rungu by Gede Green :) I bought a bag then brought them home, tried it, and immediately returned to buy the whole batch! :) Then tried to make jam, but not so successful as I like it to be, so more excuses to buy more this wonderful organic purple passion fruits!

Our typical breakfast: coffee made with moka and toast with butter and jam.

Well, that’s all for now. Wish you all a verrrrryyyyyy relaxing Sunday!

This is one of Marco’s exhibition I told you before. The archiviarti 2010, curated by Fiordialice Sette at Fabbrica Borroni. It was great! The space was amazing and there are many interesting people. Super! :)

The mandatory photo with the artist :P (more…)

It has been like…zillion years ago since I wrote my last post here. Not that I have not had anything to say, I have been having a lot of things in my mind, may be a bit too much…and the thing is: I think my MIND got CONSTIPATED. I could not get these things out of my mind. Everything I do feels so wrong. Everything I do could not express what I think.

I don’t like my own cooking.

I don’t like my photographs.

I don’t like my design.

I don’t like my…things

Just not good enough. Everything I do. Just not what I have in mind.

Ugh.

And then I got to this point where I could not see any point of letting it out. And it has been 2 months. 2 long months.

This week: We have just returned from a whole month in Jakarta trip, Jakarta is a stressing city for me, Charlie made a mess of our house. I cleaned like a crazy lady for the whole week, and suddenly I did not like anything here anymore, so I started moving the furniture around like mad hatter. Turning our house into one big mess.

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This morning.

I woke up at 6. Marco was still sleeping. It started to rain slowly. I made coffee in my kitchen. Turned on my computer. Charlie sleeping on the blue cushion next to me.

And the world just seems…quite right.

Yes.

I took some photos.

It is just a beginning. It is just me. It might not look nice. But it is okay.

I want to take more.

Sloooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyy….

I wanted to make muffins.

I have NOT that muffin paper cups.

I baked them PAPERLESS in duralex glasses.

This makes me think: Why do we always put the paper when we bake muffins or cupcakes? Imagine six billions people eating one muffin…that is six billions paper trash! And how many trees died for this? And what is the purpose? Portability? I don’t think so. Even when you buy one muffin to take away in a cafe or bakery, the would always give you paper bag and napkins with it. I rarely see people carrying muffin just like that, even when they do, they still use napkin to hold it. So, why not paperless muffin? Imagine how many muffin I have already baked in my life? And how mindless I was?

I believe, being green should first be an attitude, not lifestyle.

And I believe, even by starting from little things like muffin paper we could reduce trash.

So, from now, I will always bake PAPERLESS MUFFINS.

I was thinking to give you recipes, but you know, the web is flooded enough with zillion of banana and chocolate muffins recipes :) I think you can just google it :) The thing is, just bake it…paperLESS :)

Love.

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No recipe? No…just some random shots of my life lately. It has been good (even there were moments I want to scream when it rained outside-IN! Yeah, our roof needed fixing, but it is ok now :) oh, plus a neighbour who play cheesy music all day, but that is ok too :)

I have a moody sky here, it is amazing how many times he changes in a day (I always feel sky is…a boy hehe) I might even called him BOY! Ha! Now I have a sky named Boy! and  So, what I cook is all depend on Boy, if Boy is happy, then sunny, then salad and light sides it is, if Boy is sad and crying alot, then a hearty risotto it is…you know what I mean. All I have in my kitchen is a bunch of good ingredients and no plan. It is how my life is now, and you can take a tiny peek of it through my lens :)

No, that’s not my foot, that’s marco’s, mine is much smaller :)

And yes, that is moody Boy, from my bedroom’s terrace

Butter+pan fried+salmon+black sesame seeds = quickie delicioooouuuuuusssssss :)

Silk smooth chocolate pudding with cream and fresh strawberry or coffee of top? Oh, can I have both please? :P

And say hello to some cute micro creatures around us :)

This is marco’s favourite! Tiny butterfly with white and purple wings!

This tree just had a haircut, but I still like him :)

And moody Boy is suddenly feeling happy, giving us some sun :)

And that is all for today…oh, are you leaving? So soon? Then please don’t forget to close the door…yes, it is pretty but no, my door is not a magic door that could bring you anywhere like doraemon’s…but, may be, if you really REALLY make wish and taping the heels of your red shoes three times…may be… :) xx

sometimes

there are so many things inside

I just cant let out

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