Banana-choco pudding

Actually 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 banana instead of orange and kiwi. As I expected, the result reminded me to nagasari without banana leaves. This pudding is definitely something that I will make again in the future.

Itadakima~su!

Naranja 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 first time in Honolulu. And it tasted soo damn good (and refreshing). Oh, don't forget to say 'virgin' (i.e., virgin pina colada), or else they will put some rum (alcohol) inside your drink.

Back in Toyohashi, I was craved for Pina Colada. I couldn't find pineapple that easily that time, so I decided to modify a bit: using orange instead of pineapple.

Do you also want to try? I dont remember which recipe did I use, well.. try to google 'orange colada' if you want :)
Ps: actually, they have another name for it: Naranja Colada.

Homemade 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 (40,000 rupiahs!) only for ONE mango.

And you know what?
Several days ago, we found cheap mango in the market! Woo.. This must be a sign from the universe that we have to try making mango lassi by ourself.
Too bad I was lazy to get my blender out of the box, so I merely used a spoon (instead of blender) to soften mango. I also decided not to add any sugar (as I felt that the mango itself was already sweet).

Fast recipe:
LassiMix:
1 cup of milk + 1.5 cup of yoghurt
ToppingSoften:
1/4 part of mango

My friend said that I could get foamy lassi if I blend yoghurt and milk using blender.
Noted. Later we'll try a blended version of lassi ;)

Or even better: blended orange lassi. Humm.. sounds good.

Choco-banana smoothie!!

I decided to buy food processor because I got tired cutting meat into small pieces. It was hard to recognize this food processor because:
1. I have never seen any food processor before
2. All is written in Japanese! :D

Milk Pudding with Orange and Kiwi

I rarely cooked this week. Not only because of my schedule (halah :p) but also (mainly) because my friend gave me Rendang Telur.

Hoooh! I love it very much. I ate Rendang Telur EVERY DAY in this week (at least once a day, but sometimes I can eat Rendang Telur up to three times a day :D). 

The only food that I cooked these recent weekdays was only pudding. This milk pudding was my second try. It tasted good (for me) because I added whipped cream into the mixture. The result was this pudding tasted so moist (more moist than my first try) and fresh (because of orange and kiwi).

Actually the original recipe use mango as its vla, but i couldn't find mango here (not yet) and i (still) don't have any idea what other fruit can be used to substitute mango. Any idea?

As usual, this recipe is taken from Bara's book ;)