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.

Banana Bollen

My friend gave me four fingers of uncommon reddish skinned banana from her homewtown, Ciamis, West Java. We usually called it as pisang Kidang, or Kidang Banana. The flavor is also unique that you can feel the higher content of starch but less sweet than the usual banana. As it is not really tasteful to be eaten just as it is, my friend asked me to process it to another form of food.

Japanese Coffee Jelly

Last week I had family lunch in one of the hotel in Jakarta that is famous for their dessert. I asked the waitress the most favorite ones and he said “Coffee Jelly!” The look was simple; an inch black layer with poured white cream. It was bittersweet, not a typical dessert that I used to like, but the taste was unforgettable, refreshing, and comfy.

Hong Kong Style Milk Egg Tart (Thicker Version of Pie Susu Bali)

It's Ramadan, a holy month for Muslim all over the world! It's not only fulfilled with blessings, it is also the time when all the delicious food available for iftar (breakfasting). This holy month actually has been running for 12 days, yet sadly, I don't have much time to cook any fancy :'( However, this moment shouldn't be wasted, so I baked this simple and sweet milk egg tart for iftar appetizer yesterday :D

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.