Cutie Jelly

Oh finally, I made this happend. After searching for the molds like this all over the kitchen store and didn't find any. All the ice cube tray is just boring, so I asked my mom who lives in Java to send me some. She said the molds like these are all over the places. I finally got them, and o boy I love em so much. I bought the nutrijel from an asian store here. For you who live in Indonesia may be this is not a new thing but here where I live, just hard to find, usually we make jello and just put it in a bowl, and scoop it to eat it, hahahha.... not fun at all.

I just love to watch them since they're too adorable to eat. OK, wish me luck to find more cutie molds around.

Green Chicken

This is one of Steve favorite Indonesian dish. Since I could not get all the ingredients, so I opted out many of them. I admit that I was out of control putting the hot peppers, so Steve was on fire, and he had to wash it out with two breads afterward. That hot til he couldn't talk, he said his mouth was numb. The funny thing was I ate it just fine and ate lots of the green stuffs, no problem. Is it me the queen of hot peppers or him getting whimpy? I don't knooooow.....

Ingredients:

- 6 chicken drumsticks

- 5 jalapenos

- 5 cloves of garlic

- 1 bunch green onion

- 1 bunch cilantro

- 2 inches ginger

- 2 lime juices

- 2 glass of water

- salt+pepper

Chop garlic, ginger and jalapenos with a food processor. Chop cilantro and green onion by knife. Heat a pan with 3 tb. olive oil, saute the first ingredient for 5 minutes. Add chickens and chopped greens and stir. Add 2 glass of water and salt+peppers. When it boils, turn the heat down, cover the pan and cook for about 45 minutes. Add lime juices at the end.

Spaghetti Caserole

No time for preparing dinner? Surprisingly the taste was incredibly amazing delicioussssss!

Try this dish, you can always use any meat or vegetable in your refrigerator. Mine was:

- Spaghetti, boil for 7 minutes and drain.

- Roasted beef, dice

- Mushroom, dice

- 1 Onion, chop

- 5 cloves garlic, chop

- 3 cup milk

- 3 eggs

- 1 cup chedar cheese

- 1 cup mozarella cheese

- salt + pepper

Combine everything together except mozarella cheese in a big bowl, then pour it in to a caserole pan. Sprinkle with mozarella cheese on top and bake for 30 minutes.

BBQ Ribs

Bika Singkong

Recipe courtesy by Imelda Hamlin.

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Green Tuna

Ingredients:

- 1 lb Fresh tuna

- 1 cup green chillies

- 1 cup green onion

- 2 cup cilantro

- 1 cup onion

- 1 lemon grass (optional)

- 3 cloves garlic

- juice of 2 limes

- 1 cup of water

- salt and pepper

Dice the tuna and chop all the greens.

Fry tuna until half-cooked and put it aside. Add 2 tbs olive oil and saute garlic and onion, put back the tuna in the pan and add the rest of ingredients, add 1 cup of water. Season with salt and pepper. Cover the pan and simmer in low heat for 15 minutes.

Arizona

I, steve, his mom, Denny, Missy went to visit Richard&Mirriam family in Phoenix, AZ for a week. Yes, what a crowd and I cannot explain or describe in the right words of the trip. Just couple of words maybe, the view was amazing, and the food were incredibly delicious. We were also invited by the Hamlin for an unforgetable luncheon. Imelda cooked tons of foods and desserts that's hard to forget for a long time. She also invited Wulan, kevin, Henny, Tari, Asri and Rachel. Most of them had to drive long hours to meet us. What a wonderful people we met specially the host, Imelda dan Dirk. They are very friendly, kindness and generous. We cannot thank you enough for the warmest welcome when we were in your place.

Richard, Miriam, Itzy and Richie, thank you so much for the hospitality during our stays. Miriam and I had a wonderful time together, thank you for taking me to places and I hope I brought you a little peace in your heart, if you know what I mean.

Friends, my love is always with you all wherever we are, and I'm hoping to see you again there or here in DC. See you....!