The like of my hubby’s taste to anykind of food related to eggs and veggies challange me to preserve something different. As I have spent so much time cooking eggs with the same style: scrambled, sunny side up, fried, to soft boiled egg, I come to a simple and healthy one: spinach omelette.

I usually make a simple omelette with sliced carrot and cabbage, and chopped chicken. This time the idea of creating spinach omelette comes up to my mind because I think the fillings of the omelette can be varied. So, I browse the internet and find some sites to guide me to cook the omelette. The recipes are from the combination of those from dhi’s pantry and this.

The recipe is very simple and you can get the ingredients easily. I don’t use saussages or any kinds of meat but only add two tea-spoons of corn starch which is mixed into three spoons of water. Some cheddar cheese also gives additional flavor.

These are the things you need.

3 eggs. Beat the egg and corn starch mixture.

A bunch of spinach. Wash and soak in boiled water for 1 minutes.

1 medium potato. Slice.

1/2 onion

1 clove garlic

3 sp water and 2 tea-spoon corn starch. Mixed

Salt

Pepper

A pinch of sugar

Cheddar cheese

How:

Heat 4 spoons of olive oil on a non stick frying pan then add the onion and the garlic.

Put the sliced potato and low the heat. Cook until tender.

When the potatoes are soft, add pepper, salt and sugar. Add the drained spinach and saute  for a few second.

Add the egg mixture to the pan and cook for about 10 minutes on a low heat until cooked through.

Served with cheddar cheese.

I was so glad when my mom told me that there’re two-flower-would-be on my orchid. At first I was desperate that it would not flower after two years  I took it and planted it to my mango tree. I was certain that it would bloom soon because I took it from a very good breed. My mom even tried to grow it at home and it did not take a long time to bloom. But mine ….  I suspected that it would not give flowers because it was planted on a mango tree I planted in the front yard five years ago. The tree that has not even been fruitful up to now. Not even a mango, did flowers not appear.

However, the orchid now begins to bloom.

They’re so plain, so ordinary, but warming.

A hope for another hope.

I posted four out of seven which were taken from different angles. However an effort it was as the wind blew it here and there, the fours are my best ones.

Idenya muncul ketika renovasi dapur hampir selesai.”Sepertinya bagus y, kalau kita pasang lemari yang sekaligus bisa berfungsi sebagai gudang di sini.” celetuk suamiku  “Kita bisa taruh barang2 yang selama ini menumpuk di pojok dapur.”

Aha… memang betul, selama ini kita memang tidak memiliki gudang yang dapat memuat semua barang di belakang rumah. Ada sapu, tangga, pel-an, prabotan, ahhh… dan semuanya yang berantakan. Dan jika semuanya dapat muat di dalam satu lemari, clean, lean and tidy it will be

Akhirnya kami mulai mencari semua barang yang diperlukan. Dari blockboard, engsel, paku, cat, dempul. Idenyapun diadopsi dari majalah ikea online. Hanya saja kami merancang sebuah lemari yang tingginya sampai plafon dengan panjang x lebar =3,2×2,6 m. Pernah aku bertanya bahwa jika kita memesan lemari ke mebel atau para pembuat kitchen set dengan ukuran itu, harganya bisa mencapai 7-10 juta (wow, harga yang buat keluarga muda seperti kami tidak tercapai), tetapi jika buat sendiri harga bisa ditekan hingga 50%. Tentunya walaupun kualitas tidak sama dengan lemari2 buatan mebel, fungsinya tidak kalah berbeda.

Alhamdulillah, Impian memiliki lemari yang menjulang sampai langit-langit rumah akhirnya tercapai.

Berikut ini biaya yang kami keluarkan untuk membuat lemari impian kami.

1. Blockboard 6 lembar Rp. @167.500                                  Rp. 1.005.000

2. Engsel sendok 15 pasang Rp. @15.000                             Rp. 225.000

3. Paku 10.500                                                                           Rp. 10.500

4. Cat 2 kaleng Rp. @ 40.000                                                  Rp. 80.000

5. 1 kg meni kayu Rp. 17.500                                                   Rp. 17.500

6. 1 kg  dempul impra Rp. 27.500                                            Rp. 27.500

7. Biaya tukang 2 orang 4 hari @80.000                                Rp. 640.000

Total:                                                                                            Rp. 2. 005.500

Wooww…. hemat bukan

 

Before I forget I record again one of my mom’s simple recipe here. I always remember the smell of her cooking but when I make myself something is still missing. There is always something missing and I do not know what it is. So, today I cooked tofu and soybean cake curry which was our breakfast in my childhood. I tried to produce the same smell of the food that my mom used to make.

Something sounds funny, in my opinion, is the Indonesian name. It is “Oblok-oblok Tempe Tahu.” It is like curry but it is not but I call it curry because of the yellowish soup of the food and some ingredients are for it.  The main fillings are tofu and soybean cake, not fish, meat or vegetables. Here are the ingredients.

1 A slice of ginger and  tumeric

2 A pinch of corriander and white pepper

3 Bayleaf, lemongrass, and galangal

4 A cut of the tip of red chilli

5 Salt and palm sugar

6 Two glasses of coconut milk

7 Tofu and soybean cake.

The smell is almost like what I used to inhale when my mom made this. ( : Unfortunately the taste ….  still,  something is missing ) :