The title says it all: eating, drinking, cooking, friendship and family.
Posted in Desserts, Gluten-free friendly, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Nov 19th, 2009
The last element of our lovely feast was a fast, tasty (and sweet!) dessert of tapioca pudding. This was based on a sago pudding we made at the Casa Luna cooking class, although we substituted sago for tapioca. The first step was to soak the tapioca and pandan leaves in water for about 30 minutes. [...]
Posted in Meat, Recipe: savoury, Recipes, Rice, Sauces and stocks on Nov 18th, 2009
The final savoury dish we made for our Balinese feast was a lamb stew. This dish was based on the recipe from the Bumbu Bali cooking school, that Saskia attended when she was in Bali. The first step in making the stew was to make (another!) spice paste. This paste was quite similar to the [...]
Posted in Recipe: savoury, Recipes, Salads on Nov 17th, 2009
Continuing the Balinese feast (check out our tofu fritters and chicken curry), we made a fresh bean and roasted coconut salad as an accompaniment. We made a similar salad (urab buncis) at our cooking course, which included beans, coconut and the sambel mix, but it also had a spice mix and coconut milk dressing. Given [...]
Posted in Meat, Recipe: savoury, Recipes, Rice, Sauces and stocks on Nov 16th, 2009
Continuing on from my previous post (tofu fritters), the next dish we made was a chicken curry (kare ayam). We started by chopping all the spices: These were blended in our large processor, then in the mini processor. In our cooking course we ground the spices by hand (they had these amazing volcanic rock mortal [...]
Posted in Appetisers & accompaniments, Recipe: savoury, Recipes on Nov 15th, 2009
On our recent honeymoon, Mr M & I did a cooking course in Bali at Casa Luna in Ubud. Our lovely friends S & P gave us the cooking course as part of our wedding present and we promised S & P to cook from the course when we got back home. So the day [...]
