Indonesian Black Beef Stew alias Rawon

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Achievement unlocked! Rawon (Indonesian dark / black beef stew) from the scratch by #recipega. I’m touching it tastes like restaurant-made T_T. Recipe below. #firstattempt #rawon #rawonsetan #rawonsetansurabaya #homemaderawon #indonesiancuisine #fromthescratch

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Recipe modified by #recipega from my cousin:
– 750 g beef with fat (this is the key of rawon), diced
– 100 g kluwek or black nuts (the key for black color) >> I got it from Asian store in New York
– 8 medium shallots
– 4 cloves garlic
– 3 candlenuts (Indonesian: kemiri)
– 1 tsp ground coriander (Indonesian: ketumbar bubuk)
– 1/2 tsp ground caraway (Indonesian: jinten bubuk) >> can be substituted with 1/4 tsp ground cumin
– 1 lemon grass, cut and press
– 3-4 keylime/ kaffir leaves (Indonesian: daun jeruk)
– a thumb of fresh galangal (Indonesian: lengkuas)
– salt and pepper

(1) Soak kluwek in hot water few minutes. After few minutes, using chopper or blender, blend all spices, except lemon grass, keylime leaves, and galangal.
(2) Place the pot in low heat, put in the beef and let it stand in the bottom of pot without oil or water, until it’s no longer red, flip over beef occasionally. This step aims to make liquid of beef come out. Strain the water and set apart (don’t waste the water).
(3) In the same pot by increasing heat to medium-high, heat up 2 Tbs oil, then add blended spices. Sautee until it’s fragrant.
(4) Add the beef and remaining spices, combine well
(5) Add 1,5 quart (1,5 L) water. Bring it to boil.
(6) Reduce the heat and simmer an hour or more. Rawon is ready when you see the natural oil from beef-fat has been going up and floating on top of the soup and the soup gets thickened.

Note: Indonesian is used to serve it with beansprouts, sambal, fried onion, and/or salted hardboiled duck egg (Indonesian: telur asin)

How 1 Year Old Meal Time Looks Like

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Musa’s mealtime look 1 year ++

Keukeuh pake sendok / garpu, mau balik piring, ngunyah kebanyakan (“molo-molo” orang Jawa bilang), buang-buang makanan adalah sebagian potret kekinian Musa saat makan.

It’s almost a month since my last photo for this album. If you see Musa’s meals pics before, you may think he’s an easy baby in eating. Now, Musa has been a toddler, entering period when he’s naturally to be a picky eater. Table foods with salt and sugar (yey, finally!) can’t make he eats more than his baby foods. He still prefers to eat plain fruits or veggies instead of yummy-crunchy-fascinating fried chicken a la KFC.

We have more challenges for sure, but we don’t want to bring down his self-regulate sense that has been built so far. We simply give up the foods to give to him when he doesn’t want to eat.

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Ramadan Prep a la Cooking Mama

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#ea5512 #fridge and #freezer deep cleaning to welcome our super special guest: #Ramadan2016 – Got three foods cooked (and still counting), several fresh veggies chopped, and some store-brought frozen produces for emergency sahoor (meal before fasting) and iftar (meal after fasting). The freezer has not too much space anymore to store the fresh meat and seafood we just shopped yesterday.. 😅😅 Hope Allah makes easy for us to change sleep cycle a lil bit, fill the day and night with more worships and good deeds, do fasting in heated days, and control our temper or any kind of negativity. Aamiin. #mealpreparation #welcomingramadhan #welcomeholyspirit #helloramadan #sayinshaaallah #deepcleaning #ramadanpreparation #ramadanprep
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When the Library Made Us Upset..

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My heart was breaking and I felt so sorry to Musa this morning. There was an interesting event in the library we’re used to go that’s only available this summer: Play and Learn for Age 1-3 with experts invited. Musa had found his toy and played with other kids for few minutes before we were told about signing up and not allowed to join them at all because we missed to register T_T. The coordinator said the program has been full for all weeks with no clue how many kids they want to keep and why we can’t ask to be waiting list. There was a participant leaving earlier yet we were not offered to go in -_-.

I was so upset. We are loyal participant of library’s story time every week and I looked forward to join this program since a month ago. Recent weeks I was so busy with trips plus events and didn’t pay attention to event details. However, I always kept in mind that I would have event on June, 3. See my second photo! That is the ONLY publication I know about this event. I put it on my working table and saw it every day, but the information “registration is required” was failed to catch my focus. It’s too little between long text, huh? Some other mommies looked misguide too.

Lesson learned:
– Read information carefully
– Don’t be a procastinator. If you have read an instruction, there’s usually a time limit to follow it, so just do immediately
– I wish I could design better advertisement than this so people don’t miss the important thing to do. Hahahaha

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