Such a long title, no? :)
But hey, (although my tummy is rumbling and I want to make crepes so bad but there is no flour in the new kitchen: need grocery shopping asap) I am in a good mood to write now, a rarity these days. First of all, it just felt so good to be able to wake up, go to my kitchen, open the window, and say: selamat pagi semua!!! (good morning all!!!)
Loud and clear. Yeah!

Then cooking my first decent breakfast: a bowl of 5 grains porridge with slices of fresh mango, honey and cinnamon plus making a cup of java coffee. It felt…great! There are still many works need to be done in my new house, no furniture, the lighting is crappy, the windows are still covered with news paper, no hot water, we eat on the floor and my work place is on the top of the moving boxes, but I just love it. Lovelovelove it.

And we got our first guest too: kuro, our neighbour’s puppy who keeps visiting us since the first day we moved :) I called him kuro (means black in japanese) without knowing that his real name is really kuro. Super cute and curious. We are happy enough to have kuro here sometimes, as we are not ready yet to add a new fury family member since we lost charlie.

He really likes hanging around in our kitchen and garden, kind of hoping marco would pass him a tiny bit of that delicious salame from florence :). Btw, our kitchen is the only finished part of the house, I have transferred most of my kitchen equipment here, it felt like a victory! Such a hard work! Unwrapping all the pieces, and washing them one by one. Now they are sitting cleanly+neatly in my kitchen drawers :)

And the last thing: a simple granola recipe :) I promised to give this recipe to my friend Intan a while ago but kept forgetting about it. Sowie!
Hope you all have a good breakfast, everyday!
Hugs!

A Simple Granola

4 cups of rolled oats
1 cup of mixed natural nuts (I used almond, cashew and walnut), chopped
1 cup of dried fruits (I used raisins and dried apricot), chopped
1/2 cup of honey
1/4 cup of olive oil (I use coconut oil sometimes, when I can find a good one, like the one made at my village)
Opt: I like also to add one cup or two of puffed kamut, to give an lighter feeling to my granola :)

Preheat the oven to 150C
Line a baking tray with baking sheet, combine all dry ingredients in a big bowl, mix well. Heat the honey and the olive oil in a small sauce pan over a low heat, stir well then pour over the dry ingredients and mix well until everything is well coated.
Transfer to the lined baking tray. Bake, stirring every 5-10 minutes (so it will browned evenly) for about 35 minutes. Cool completely.
Note: I don’t like my granola too sweet, I always feel you can add a drizzle of honey or so when you eat it with yoghurt or milk if you are feeling on the sweeter side.

This morning: messy+colourful table+lots of sun :) Been trying to make pancake with rice flour as my Indonesian soul been craving for kue serabi (Indonesian pancake made with rice flour and coconut milk). I was trying to make it yesterday but the result was too dry, but this morning I saw that we had some banana at home and I thought it might be a perfect ingredient to add moistness to the pancake. I tried it and the result was beautiful :)

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