Empal Suwir Cabai

Empal Suwir Cabai

Ingredients:
2 slices Empal (made by my mommy, don't ask me the recipe. I only know how to fry and eat it)
3 shallots (sliced)
1 tomato (chopped)
4 red chilies (chopped)
2 chilli padi (chopped)
Salt, pepper and sugar to taste
Juice from 1 lime
Cooking oil












Instructions:
1. Fry empal and set it aside to cool.
2. Blend chopped tomato, red chilies and chilli padi with food processor and then set it aside.
3. Reheat the pan, using the left over oil from frying empal, saute shallot until fragrant.
4. Add tomato and chili mixture and cook until the water evaporated. Add more cooking oil if needed.
5. Season it with salt, pepper and sugar and continue cooking until it's done. You can tell by the smell :).
6. In the meantime, when the meat (empal) is cooled down, shred it with your hand or fork, whatever works for you.
7. Toss the shredded meat. Mix well and continue cooking around 2 mins.
8. Pour in the lime juice, cook for another 1 minute. 
9. In the end, the food should taste spicy, salty, a bit sour from the lime juce and a bit sweet from the sugar. Slurppppss!

I serve this with rice mixed with komatsuna (Japanese spinach mustard). 
Komatsuna can be replaced with chye sim.
 

Recipe: Salt Pepper Chicken (Updated)

FYI, I have no work today hence the blog spamming :P

Salt Pepper Chicken (Ayam Lada Garam)

Ingredients:

Coating Mixture:
3 tsp Kobe starch
1 tsp flour
1.5 tsp tapioca starch
0.25 tsp knorr chicken
white pepper to taste
salt (very very little)

2 strips of chicken fillet (cut into dice approx. 2cm)
2 cloves of garlic (minced)
1 chillipadi (diced)
1 red chilli (diced)
1 green chilli (diced) (why green chilli? to make it colorful, my hubby tastes food with his eyes first)
1 tablespoon margarine
salt and pepper (black and white) to taste
cooking oil.


Instructions:
1. Mix the coating mixture evenly and put into a medium plastic bag. Put the diced chicken and shake the bag to evenly coat the chicken.
2. Deep fry the chicken until golden brown. Remove from heat and put it aside. on top of the sauteed garlic and cayenne pepper. Mix it well.
3. Heat the pan, melt the butter, saute the garlic and all the chillies until fragrant and soften abit. Put a bit of salt and white pepper. Continue stirring.
3. Toss the chicken, mix it well. Add more salt and black pepper to taste. Personally I choose black pepper cause I like it hot
4. Remove from heat. Put in a plate.
5. Ready to serve.
For 2 people.

Note: chicken can be substituted with tofu, pork, cuttlefish, squid or shrimp.

Normally I would serve this with shredded cabbage, mix with Japanese mayo and a bit of honey mustard.
My hubby loves it!

Bagaimana Memandang Diri Sendiri

Seorang pemuda bertanya kepada biksu, "Guru, ada orang yang memuji saya berbakat, nanti pasti akan menjadi orang yang sukses; ada juga orang yang mengatakan saya ini bodoh, seumur hidup pasti tidak akan bisa melakukan hal besar. Kalau menurut Anda bagaimana?

"Bagaimana kamu memandang diri kamu sendiri?" biksu balik bertanya.

Pemuda menggeleng-gelengkan kepalan, tidak tahu harus menjawab apa.

"Sebagai contoh sekilo beras, kalau orang yang melihat berbeda, nilai beras itu kemugnkinan akan berbeda pula. Bagi seorang ibu rumah tangga, sekilo beras bisa menjadi delapan piring nasi; bagi seorang petani, sekilo beras hanya bernilai Rp. 2000 (masak sih, jaman kapan?); dimata orang pembuat bakcang, jika beras dibuat mejadi bakcang, bisa dijual Rp. 3000 per buah (pasti yg ga ada telor dan jamur hioko nya hehe); dimata pembuat bumbu masakan, diolah menjadi bumbu masak, bisa bernilai Rp. 10.000 per bungkus; dipandang dari sudut pembuat arak, beras dapat diragi menjadi arak, nilainya bisa menjadi Rp. 40.000 per guci"

Setelah berhenti sejenak, sang biksu melanjutkan, "Ada orang yang akan mengangkat dan memuji kamu, ada juga yang menilai kamu rendah. Sebenarnya, kamu adalah kamu. Kamu punya kemampuan apa dan siapakah dirimu, hanya kamu seorang yang tahu dan dapat menilai diri kamu sendiri"

Mendengar petuah dari biksu, pikiran sang pemuda pun terbuka.

Quoted from "Collection of The Most Wonderful Wisdom Chinese Stories"


Note:
But if a lot of people call you evil, while you think you're a floating angel, probably you want to check your head whether there are small horns on top of there instead of wondering why the wings on your back haven't grown yet ;)