Savory Bread Pudding with Tuna

Ramadan Mubarak! After two months hiatus in food blogging, I finally able to make time to cook and write about Ramadan cuisine. Ramadan itself is the holy month for the muslims; we abstain from eating from dawn until sunset thus we could pay more attention to Quran recital and daily night prayers.

The eating before the fasting begin (suhoor) then must be nutritious, and easy to be made. So savory bread pudding, it is!

Niken's Basic Banana Cake with Honey Lemon Butter

Living in my grandfather turns me into a creative person in processing banana. We harvest banana three times a year, so there were periods when we ate banana every day but still had overstock of them. So to not wasted them, I learned to cook various recipe of banana and now I can proudly say that this recipe is the most successful basic banana cake I ever created after some trial and errors for three years.

Indonesian Bubur Kacang Hijau (Sweet Mung Bean Porridge) with Black Glutinous Rice Porridge

Weekend is a perfect time to finish all the pending books. As it was a lazy weekend, Bandung was being gloomy and raining, it was the best condition for me to have a bowl of warm sweet porridge. Woke up that morning and made this Bubur Kacang Hijau or Sweet Mung Bean Porridge along with Glutinous Rice Porridge for late breakfast.

Baked Mashed Potato Doughnut (with Caramel Cinnamon Glaze)

First of all, I want to sorry for the lack of photographs on this post, as when I baked this, my blog wasn't released yet, so I wasn't really preparing this food to be a recipe post. Anyway, this recipe is one of the successful recipe I've made this far, so this one is still worth a post.

I was having these doughnuts as breakfast a month ago. When I created the recipe, I want to avoid the unhealthiness of deep-fried food, so I strolled over web pages, combined some recipes (this one and this one also), and formulated the new healthier one. This baked potato doughnut contains only 130 calories per serving; meanwhile normal doughnut each serving contains more than 300 calories. Potato is often considered as natural emulsifier; consequently potato doughnut will be fluffier than the regulars. This variety of doughnut is well known among countries; Malaysia, India, Indonesia, US, and Peru have their own version of potato doughnut.

Swedish Cinnamon Rolls (Kanelbullar)

Even though at this present time the cinnamon rolls that we’re familiar with are American products, yet the cinnamon rolls actually are Scandinavian. The Swedes claimed that they already had cinnamon rolls since 1920 and they even celebrate Kanelbullens dag (Cinnamon bun day) nationally every 4^th of October. Cinnamon rolls are also popular as traditional dishes with various names in other Scandinavia countries; Danish’s cinnamon rolls are Kanelsnegle (Cinnamon snail), meanwhile in Norway cinnamon rolls are called Skillingsboller.

Banana Oatmeal Yeast Bread

Salaam! Hi everyone, this is my first post on this blog, so I decide to write and make one of the most historical foods in the world, bread.

The earliest form of baked bread was made by Egyptian over 5,000 years ago, as the various symbol for breads are available to be seen on Egyptian hieroglyphs as evidence. Yet, it’s still uncertain whether the bread from old Egypt was already leavened or not. The invention of yeast as bread’s leavening agent itself was presumed as an accident. Popularly believed, back then, wild yeast were being contaminant in flour, until the bakers realized that their bread was leavened naturally and also made the loaf tastier.Yeast, which are fungi, are widely dispersed in nature and commonly found in fruits, especially grapes.  It is also commonly believed by historian that the homemade bread was accidentally leavened as the result of making homemade beer- so the yeast spores are everywhere in the house.