Roast Veggies

Got this one from Jamie Oliver's web. I'll copy paste it for you with a bit of changes :)

Ingredients:

• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• zucchini, peeled
• paprika
• carrots, peeled
• beets, scrubbed
• ½ a bunch of fresh rosemary, leaves picked
• ½ bulb of garlic, broken into cloves, unpeeled
• extra-virgin olive oil
• 1 tablespoon runny honey
• good-quality balsamic vinegarz 
• eggs
• herbs

How to make: 

Heat the oven 180-200C. Bring three pans of salted water to the boil. Cut all the veggies. Place them in one of the pans and parboil for 5 to 10 minutes, or until half cooked. Drain them, then leave them to steam dry. Return the potatoes to the hot pan and shake it around to chuff up the edges, do not shake them around after leaving them to steam dry.

Scatter them with the rosemary, half the garlic cloves, a drizzle of oil, and season with salt and pepper, then spread them out evenly in a roasting tray. Toss the zucchini, carrots with the honey, a lug of oil and season well with salt and pepper, then add them to the tray, spooning over any remaining juices. Toss the beetroot with a lug of balsamic and oil, and season well with salt and pepper, then add them to the tray too. Scatter over the remaining garlic cloves and roast all the veg in the hot oven for about 20 to 30 minutes, giving them a jiggle every so often, or until everything is crispy, golden and delicious. Keep and eye on them and rotate the tray for even cooking.

Then I eat with brown rice and srambled some egg with herbs.....nyummm! :) 

The Hundred Languages of Childhood

The child
is made of one hundred.
The child has
A hundred languages
A hundred hands
A hundred thoughts
A hundred ways of thinking
Of playing, of speaking.
A hundred always a hundred
Ways of listening of marveling of loving
A hundred joys
For singing and understanding
A hundred worlds
To discover
A hundred worlds
To invent
A hundred worlds
To dream
The child has
A hundred languages
(and a hundred hundred hundred more)
But they steal ninety-nine.
The school and the culture
Separate the head from the body.
They tell the child;
To think without hands
To do without head
To listen and not to speak
To understand without joy
To love and to marvel
Only at Easter and Christmas
They tell the child:
To discover the world already there
And of the hundred
They steal ninety-nine.
They tell the child:
That work and play
Reality and fantasy
Science and imagination
Sky and earth
Reason and dream
Are things
That do not belong together
And thus they tell the child
That the hundred is not there
The child says: NO WAY the hundred is there

Loris Malaguzzi
Founder of the Reggio Approach

Life Is Simple

"Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do."

- Byron Katie

Got this from MindBodyGreen website. And you can check Eva Muchtar's litte writing about it :)

Orange Salad :)

This is probably gonna be my favorite salad at the moment. Got this recipe from Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Day's instagram @FoodRev. Loving the taste and colors. Just prepare some green salads, oranges, walnuts, feta cheese and a bit of olive oil too (if you want to). No need salt or pepper...it's already taste good. I just add some herbs like rosemary, thyme and oregano or basil. Nyummmmm! :)

"Enoki Beef Rolls & Bacon Wrapped Asparagus"

Some of my friends wanted to come over to the house. Feels like making some small bites, so I googled for Enoki Beef Rolls & Bacon Wrapped Asparagus since enoki is one of my fave food...and bacon too hehe....and yes it was super easy :) I made it very simple.

All you need for Enoki Beef Rolls:

- Thinly sliced, long strips beef. In the supermarket you can look for pre-sliced beef for shabu shabu or sukiyaki beef.

- Enoki mushrooms, washed.

 And for Bacon wrapped Asparagus:

- Asparagus

- Slices of Bacon

I used sesame oil to cook it and for the sauce I used soy sauce. No need salt or pepper...it's already taste good (at least for me....but up to you).

How to make: 

- Cut the asparagus and enoki mushrooms so the length matches the width of your bacon & beef strips (or a little longer).
- For the Enoki Beef Roll, you can sautee the enoki with a bit of olive oil and also you can marinade your beef with Kikkoman teriyaki sauce. It's up to you to taste. But for me, if you roll it straight away without the sautee and marinade part, it still taste good. For me, I don't need oil for the bacon wrapped asparagus, since the bacon already got lots of it. But again, it's up to you to taste.

- Place a small amount of asparagus at one end of bacon strip and roll it. Also enoki mushroom at one end of each beef strip, and roll it up.

- Put the sesame oil into the grilled pan

- Place the beef rolls and sear both sides, same minutes for each side, until it's cooked

- Serve it hot. Dip it into the soy sauce :) 

Aku menari (I dance) :)

I've been practicing traditional Javanesse dance nowadays. It was one of the list from my bucket list...to learn traditional Javanesse dance. And we performed last night (with my sister and the ladies from Ardhanari) and it was a great experience for me, because it was my first time to dance traditional Javanesse dance and to be able to dance with live gamelan....surreal! I know that i'm already in my 30s...but hey...so what? I love to dance and I want to learn anyway :)

How I love the make up, accessories and costumes...the colors....especially this one for Golek Menak...one of the classical dance style of Yogyakarta, which was created by Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX.

We are family :)

This is my group. We performed a traditional Javanesse dance called "Nawung Sekar". It's a basic one, but it was so much fun because we got to dance with kids too :)

Egi and me :)

Me, my Mama and my sister Raya :)

More pics here :)

Dio's birthday party :)

For Dio's birthday party, we made giraffes, cameras and bears for kids to decorate :)

...and face painting too :)

More pics here :)

Maurice Sendak

"There must be more to life than having everything." -Maurice Sendak

This is how Maurice Sendak sometimes sent his letters. Just imagine getting one.  

Carol: "It's going to be a place where only the things you want to happen, would happen."
Max: "We could totally build a place like that!"

 *

KW: 'I don't won't you to go, I'll eat you up...I love you so."

 

Rest In Peace Mr. Maurice Sendak...one of my favorite author, writer, illustrator. Now you're going to a place where only the things you want to happen, would happen :)