And I am saying it with an un-frosted vegan cupcake, with stained little flag..ha! I woke up early to experiment with this vegan cupcake recipe…that worked just fine, but I could not figure out the frosting…and I found out that frosting and decorating are my cooking weakness…*doh! Perhaps frosting+cupcake=cute…and I can’t be categorised as cute :) I am more…minimalist, no-deco-kind-or-girl…perhaps…in the mean time, I am happy enough with sugar dusted delicious vegan cupcake (already ate my third)…will share the recipe with you once I make peace with the frosting :) Merdeka! :)))
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August 17th, 2009
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Finalmente! A food post! Can’t believe how much I miss cooking. The thing is, when I move to a new place, it takes me a while to start cooking again, I need to do ingredients research before I start. Unbelievably, it is hard to find good ingredients in Indonesia, let alone organic produce. I thought living in a village, most of the fruits and vegetables are (almost) natural, but they are not. I have been trying my best to find ingredients here, and if I really could not I have to drive 1,5 hours to the nearest city where they have organic vegetable shop or drive 4 hours only to get a bag of miso. It is that hard here. But during this ingredients research period, I found some good things around me that I will share with you soon. First let me tell you what made me cooking after this long long pause: baby tuna, catched by my father’s friend, Pak Rukun, delivered in a huge ice box to our house, directly fron the sea. (more…)
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August 14th, 2009
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The finale :) It was fun, relaxing, jazzy, loads of laughter, meeting many many people I have not seen for years. It was how it meant to be: a lunch arranged by my parents to announce and be grateful for our wedding back in february in Italy. We did not have chance to share it with all my big big family (when I said big, it really is big, something like 30 aunties and uncle, 100 cousins) and my parents’ business friends, my parents’ friends, and few of my friends (could not really organise the invitation, the fever ruined everything, sorry friends). Anyway, we did it! Uffff…four days of parties and dinners is killing, but we did it :)
I was very doubtful I could wake up at 6 am for the make up, but I was woken up by hunger pang at 5 :) This was in our hotel, a small boutique hotel in Malang, peaceful place, very nice. I will definately stay here again in the future. (more…)
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August 12th, 2009
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After few days of fever, me and Marco managed to arrived to the first party on the 7th of August, at my village: Wlingi. Such a small village, without cinema, shopping center, no supermarket, only loads of rice fields and few traditional markets and people go to sleep at 8 everyday :) Marco was amazed how come I ended up in Milan and meeting him and all :)
This arrangement of fruits and vegetables is meant for blessing and bring us luck and happiness, for example this long and green pisang raja is for happiness, the longer the banana stalks, more happiness there will be, that is what I was told (pisang means banana, raja means king…don’t know if it means banana king or king of banana or banana for king :) there was also a couple of young coconut, black sugar cane sticks…some leaves and many things I could not really understand, but all have good meaning :)
My side yard was transformed into a huge party tent, so there was lots of activities going on. Everyone looked tired but happy, except lula, my funny cat, who protested by making sad and annoyed miaws and refused to go down from Mom’s warehouse :) I guess he did not like too many people coming to his place. (more…)
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August 10th, 2009
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It has been a while, I know. Really did not have time to write here. We are in Indonesia, my parents are preparing parties for our marriage. It is very hectic, me and marco had fever of 38,5 C yesterday, everyone panicked, we started today, will have a mass and first round of dinner today. Tomorrow lunch the whole day in my village, big big family dinner the day after and the last big big party on Sunday. Ouffff….I am not so used with so many people :) Can’t wait to get back to normal life. Be right back with you all. Love. e.
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August 6th, 2009
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Second day in Singapore, we woke up early, having breakfast with fruits and toast with kaya, then walking straight to Little India, and we were blown away by the colours! Beautiful! I never thought Singapore could be this colourful. Be sure to visit this area whenever you visit :) I am still not used to the light in Asia, completely different with in Europe, everything looks sharper!
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July 16th, 2009
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Me and Marco stayed two days in Singapore two weeks ago, first time in Singapore and Asia for Marco. For me, I have been many times there but this is the first time that I really enjoy it, all the other time I was just too busy doing something else but enjoying the city.
Writing this post, I realised it is so hard to choose one image to represent Singapore, it is just so complex and practical in the same time, full of colour and gray in the same time. So I take the easy way: I put the first image I took in Singapore as my first post image :) It was in Bugis, very hot day, we were just arrived and it was too early to enter our room, so we were melting on the street, trying to stay in the shadow the the trees when I saw this man looking so relaxed in his rickshaw. We managed to visit the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho temple and had lunch at the Bugis Junction before heading back to our b&b. (more…)
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July 15th, 2009
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The last exhibition I saw in Milan before heading to Asia. I was in design library for my photography project when I saw this.
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July 13th, 2009
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Last day in Milan, it is like 01.33 am and I am still packing, our flight will leave in few hours. It has been very very hectic these weeks, I wanted to post many things like my favourite places in Milan, the cute exhibition I saw the other day, some salad recipe, some snap shot I took when I was doing my photography project outside in the sun…but too little time.
I will be travelling for a while, but I promise to keep posting, I am sure there are zillions of things to share from other parts of the world. So, see you again soon, on the other side! Hugs!
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June 27th, 2009
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The good thing about food in Italy is that every region really has their own specialty and character. Like now when I am just about bored with classic pasta-tomato sauce combination, the lunch today simply blew my mind. Marco’s brother who has just returned from attending wedding in Sardinia, gave us a bag of beautiful fresh Gnocchetti sardi, also called Ciciones, they are cute small Sardinian gnocchi that is made of semolina instead of potato in normal gnocchi. As the base ingredient is semolina flour, they are actually closer to pasta than gnocchi, but I don’t know why they are called gnocchi, next time I go to Sardinia, I will need to ask around about this :)
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June 15th, 2009
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