tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140820492024-03-14T01:31:11.739+07:00narp'sand her flying home..narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-47087357161100594392016-06-19T10:06:00.005+07:002016-06-19T10:10:49.350+07:00LearningAs described by John Guttag (MIT OpenCourseWare), with slight modification:
Learning curve is very steep in the beginning, but then it does flatten out. And somewhere along the way most
people have.. somewhat like an epiphany, “This is not as hard as I thought it was”.
And then they feel really good about themselves as they should.
…
So give it a fair shot. You know, don't quit too narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-81054367558436405592014-05-24T20:36:00.001+07:002014-05-25T13:10:21.469+07:00Italian pasta dishesHere is a list of Italian pasta dishes
#Nickname (from me)Real nameJapanese name (romaji)Explanation
1CarbonaraSpaghetti alla carbonaraKarubonaraBased on eggs, cheese, bacon, black pepper
2PeperoncinoSpaghetti, aglio, olio, e peperoncinoAario oorio / peperonchiinoGarlic, oil, and chili pepper
3Vongole biancoSpaghetti alle vongole in biancoBongore biankoClams in white sauce (plain): garlic, oilnarpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-85755930786747863572014-05-24T20:04:00.000+07:002014-05-24T20:15:09.603+07:00PastaI'm always confused when my friend bring me to an Italian restaurant. I have no idea what's the different between carbonara, pepperoncino, etc (not to mention that the menu is always written in Japanese :p Imagine a katakana word like "aariooorio" comes from Italian word "aglio e olio", hehehe)
Anyway, now I decide to resume what I've got from the net (wikipedia :D ).
Starting with pasta, here narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-74319455363872065702014-01-01T19:41:00.000+07:002017-05-07T12:32:31.138+07:00Dapur masakI've just made dapurmasak account to document my recipes. You might want to visit :D
http://dapurmasak.com/user/profile/49927
https://cookpad.com/id/pengguna/2009573narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-78777520365572662722013-09-06T14:13:00.000+07:002013-09-06T14:19:46.837+07:00Lemon chiffon cake with almond and kiwiThis year I wanted to make something special for Kaigiman's birthday. I decided to make a well-decorated birthday cake. It was really my first attempt at cake decorating. The (seems-to-be) easiest choice is to pour chocolate/ganache on the top of chocolate brownies (at least that was how my friend told me). For a chocolate lover like me (!), this option is of course the best option. However, narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-36570899691643402252013-09-05T13:47:00.000+07:002013-09-06T13:47:44.313+07:00Banana-choco puddingActually I wanted to make nagasari, an Indonesian traditional steam cake made from rice flour, coconut milk, sugar, and filled with banana slices. Considering that we didn't have banana leaves here (to wrap nagasari), I modified my wish (haha) into something with easier ingredients: banana-choco pudding.
The basic pudding was this milk pudding (my previous post). I added chocolate and used narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-10275014474901347412013-09-04T13:35:00.000+07:002013-09-06T13:50:59.642+07:00Braised banana with coconut gravyToday's menu is another coconut-based dish: braised banana with coconut gravy (a.k.a. kolak pisang, hehehe).
Banana is easy to find in Japan. Almost all convenient stores (mini markets, e.g., ministop, seven-eleven, circle-K) sell it. Beside banana fritter (pisang goreng), I like to eat banana as "kolak pisang". When I showed my kolak pisang result to some of my Indonesian friends, they wonderednarpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-16228419914680434882013-09-03T12:54:00.000+07:002013-09-06T13:36:57.475+07:00Emergency bothok
Bothok (botok) is one of my favorite childhood dishes. I always love the savory of coconut flake (parutan kelapa :p) combined with small fishes. Yumm..
One day, when I wanted it so bad, I decided to make it right away. Of course we don't have banana leaves here (to wrap the bothok). We also don't have petai cina/lamtoro gung (how to say it in English??? --> click here if you're curious).narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-9751280538046015052013-05-30T10:58:00.002+07:002013-06-01T10:44:52.718+07:00Finding more ways to learn JapaneseAbout three years ago, my sensei asked me why my English was good while I never went abroad. To be honest, I don't think my English was that good (not even now :D )You, my reader, might have better English than me!But at least, at most of the time, I can convey what's in my mind.
Back to my sensei, I think he has a point. I noticed that one of the most important things in learning a language is narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-26008137040507382412012-07-31T09:12:00.000+07:002012-11-09T08:05:14.664+07:00Bakso (Indonesian Beef Meatball)
Back to Indonesian menu!
Actually, it had never cross my mind that one day I would have to make bakso by myself. I have to admit that I'm not a big fan of bakso. But life has its own way.. :p About 3 months ago, somebody (you-know-who) request me to make bakso. Just like my usual initial step, almost everything started with.. um.. bismillah, hehehe, of course google. Care to narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-15100746456538284232012-07-28T12:40:00.001+07:002012-07-28T14:41:19.760+07:00Chicken gyoza
Gyoza is chinese style of chicken dumpling. Although it is really famous in japan, I had never tasted gyoza (before) since it's usually made from chicken or pork.
One day, after watching one of cooking program in TV, K-man wanted to make gyoza. He's a good cook, so just I helped him a bit (hehe), especially when forming gyoza (put some filling onto a piece of gyoza dough and close narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-26229309309694404142012-07-27T10:06:00.001+07:002012-07-31T08:46:12.457+07:00Random Taco
Another mexican dishes!
Several months ago, I felt in love with mexican dishes. My mexican friends held a mexican party and cooked for us some delicious meal and drink. They're just so damn nice that they offer me to cook with halal meat (so that I can also taste the dishes).
I think I gave them a.. pretty much flat-face. but actually, they touched my heart at that moment :9 hehehe.narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-42317295568357807802012-07-26T11:52:00.001+07:002013-09-06T13:37:22.861+07:00Naranja Colada
Weh.. I haven't posted anything in quite a time.
(Kaigiman and I cooked and ate a lot recently. I was overwhelmed. I took some pictures in the beginning, but then I decided to give up, hehe.. I just didn't have much time to post and write.)
Anyway, now here I am :)
Have you ever heard Pina Colada? Its kind of pineapple (pina) juice with coconut milk. I tried it for the narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-49008099508537652272012-04-20T15:30:00.001+07:002012-07-28T14:04:52.621+07:00Homemade Mango Lassi
I used to bike 3 kilometers to my favorite restaurant, only for a glass of mango lassi. I have to tell you that this restaurant has the yummiest mango lassi in the town (though there are only two three Indian restaurant I've tried here). I always wanted to make a homemade version of mango lassi, but getting mango in Japan is a bit difficult (and expensive!). Usually I have to spend 400 yen (narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-6407609107035697172012-04-18T10:25:00.001+07:002014-01-01T23:09:58.815+07:00Takoyaki
I think Kaigiman loves "yaki" very much. You name it: okonomiyaki, monjayaki, takoyaki.. (what else?). At least those were what we ate on our first date (so that we called our first date as "yaki-day" :p).
Last weekend, we had our first cooking session and we made takoyaki. It was pretty easy (and fun), actually:
1. For the batter, you just need flour, 3 eggs, chopped cabbage, and anarpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-77999411516613238832012-04-16T08:52:00.000+07:002012-04-18T10:27:45.574+07:00Chocolate Cup of Happiness
Do you crave chocolate?
Several months ago, I was pretty sad, so that somehow I googled the word "chocolate" and "sadness" (a bit pathetic, huh..). Well.. I didn't really know what I was looking for. But fortunately I found this sweet site and its great recipe: chocolate mug of sadness.
You only need to mix the ingredients in about 5 minutes, spend less than 5 minutes to "bake" it in narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-39135185264425255092011-11-06T17:56:00.000+07:002012-07-28T13:12:02.610+07:00Okonomiyaki
Hey, its already November :)
I've been pretty busy these recent months. I had some stressful days, but also a lot of great days. As Mr. Chef said, "The good experiences are the ones that count" ;)
Talking about Mr. Chef,, I stole some ideas for cooking from him. Somehow he's more japanese than me (even though none of us are japanese :p),, well.. at least he knows more japanese dishes than me.narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-10957120598860106032011-09-11T06:05:00.003+07:002011-09-11T06:09:18.340+07:00Roasted CornMy friend and I found unhusked corns in the vegetable shop and suddenly had an idea to roast the corns. I still don't know how I could convince him that I had that experience to roast a corn, because somehow he looked like he really trusted me in this case. (usually, it was me that really trusted whatever he said)
It turned out that we almost screwed it up and this cooking narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-76428410939507775452011-08-31T03:04:00.006+07:002011-08-31T08:24:52.248+07:00Questions about the moonAfter reading about how to determine the beginning of Islamic month (lunar calendar) by sky observation, I realized that I have A LOT of questions regarding the moon.. It took me hours to jump from one page to another, trying to figure out the answers of these questions. Then I think that maybe I should stop now. I have life to live (lol :p).
Here I put a list of my questions (also I narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-42694501465624656912011-08-29T06:34:00.006+07:002011-09-13T08:02:08.883+07:00Pasta Salmon Cream SauceFinally!! :D
Months ago, my friend made this pasta for me. It was soo delicious so that I wanted to make it by myself.
At first, I tried to guess its ingredients and tried to make it without asking him,, but I was failed, hehe (i put one unnecessary ingredient and it ruined the taste!).
So here it is, my latest result of pasta salmon cream sauce.
It was a really nice menu for sahur (ournarpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-40587390852907340512011-08-20T21:46:00.004+07:002011-11-06T18:03:37.054+07:00Noodle PizzaBack then when I was a child, I used to have "pizza mie" at home. The term "pizza mie" was a mixture of english and indonesian word (mie = noodle).
I always heard that making noodle pizza was easy, but I never tried it before. So these recent two weeks -in my lovely summer holiday-, I tried to make some noodle pizzas.
Making these noodle pizzas, I have to be extra careful since now I only narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-90926247202251785712011-05-05T10:11:00.008+07:002011-05-05T17:02:39.065+07:00Milk pudding with mango sauceAnother farewell!
Owh, I got tired with farewells.
About two weeks ago, before my friend went far far away to his home, we had our last dinner. Due to some considerations, we chose his kitchen as our victim place.
My friend cooked main dishes for us (which was great, as always). The other two of my friends brought their Mekong-weed (>> it was also GOOD, reminded me to my childhood narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-2915014386148538652011-03-25T15:28:00.010+07:002011-05-03T05:11:25.892+07:00Birthday Brownies (update)My cooking sensei and I made this brownies for our friend. At first we didn't decide what to cook, then i proposed brownies (because I heard that making brownies was easy :p).
During the baking process, we also dealt with some core-meltdown of the brownies. We miscalculated the size of brass. It was too small so that the core of the brownies was spilled out inside the oven. Yes, it broke our narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-25746996953127187632011-02-14T17:59:00.000+07:002011-02-14T17:59:18.783+07:00Monday for washing?Oh, I have pile of dishes waiting in my kitchen sink.
*sigh*
It reminds me to an old song from Utada Hikaru. In this video, she washed dishes the entire song. Lol. I don't understand how a famous singer could say that she enjoyed washing dishes :D
Hikki.. please come to my place, help me clean this pile of dishes..
And for you, my reader..
Here's a video of Hikari (Light) from Utada Hikaru..
narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14082049.post-48294074885975091542011-02-06T23:38:00.008+07:002011-02-06T23:45:04.759+07:00Salmon steak with baked potatoI know, i know.. The title was a bit exaggerating :D
Yesterday I wanted something simple (but extra ordinary) for my lunch. I had to finish my salmon meat, so somehow I just made some random movement.
-it was random because i didn't really know what to do. i just tried to remember what my friend did with his fish-
I only gave garlic powder and salt for the fish. I wanted to give parsley, but narpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09415707805381651752noreply@blogger.com0