New favorite food place! Palenque in Gateway (Cubao) has a ton of amazing regional cuisine. Pictured below are the Kahawa Malimu Iced Coffee and Sambal Squid from Palm Grill.
Last night dinner, we ate some duck satay with a side of tempe. A specialty in Cilegon area that we never see in Jakarta, at least for me. #MakanApaToday
it's been a while since I posted to #MakanApaToday because I spent a lot of March feeling a little sad about food but hey, today it's anchovy soup + noodles, no pics
Cream cheese dynamite (whole green chilis with the seeds replaced by cream cheese and deep fried in lumpia wrapper), takoyaki, coffee from 7-11.
My dog has been confined since Monday and this is me when I don't care about what I'm eating anymore because 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️ just trying not to collapse I guess.
Managed to cook lunch by sheer willpower, but the chronic pain worsened so much later that I had to tell BFFs to order takeaway for me (I always pester them for this, deliberately).
Things are on the mend; I've cooked more this month than previously. But building strength takes time.
Realised I don't have a picture of my favoured takeaway, so had to correct it. BFFs are old friends of the owners of this place. Great food, and quite cheap, too.
Inspired by @agasramirez I tried my hand at silog, but with ghee instead of butter or oil, and added curry leaves 🍃 This is partly because for some reason, I don't feel confident enough to make @skinnylatte 's favourite muttai kalakki yet. I think this would be perfect for cold wintry or rainy days, esp. when I need low-effort meals or a change of taste.
Delighted that this is my first attempt at a SE Asian recipe, and a definite W at that! 🥳
Spicy Kongunad kozhi kuzhambu as per Kannamma Cooks 🫶🏽 a fantastic and quite easy recipe, even for an amateur like me, with measurements meticulously listed.
Got mildly scalded when making the fried spice paste because the mixer wasn't closed right and I got splashed with the hot oily water when I switched it on 🔥 Just Mars squaring the Moon, not a big deal, just enough to make me pay attention.
Tagging @skinnylatte because we were talking about this 🍃
Needed to use the milk that had stored up, so I made suji halwa for Saturday breakfast ✨ BFF#2 had shown me how to make it last month. We were talking about fasting for Shivratri yesterday. She's doing it; I wanted to but I knew I wouldn't be able to fast. Today I did have enough milk to pour over a Shiva linga, but instead I used it for my breakfast. And Lord Shiva and I are both happy! in a casually blasphemous but physically and spiritually fulfilling way 🖤 💚
I woke up this morning feeling like having nasi kukus for lunch. Crispy fried chicken, thick curry, crispy beansprouts and extra helping of sambal #MakanApaToday