Pretend Cooking

Pretend Cooking

Basic Easy Hummus

I liked hummus, but now I LOVE hummus. Especially now moving back to my home country, Indonesia. I can’t afford haas avocados to make guacamole or just as a creamy healthy thing on my breakfast plate. We have some local avocados but no way near the delicious haas avocados. Believe me, I tried to make […]

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Cajun Beans and Sausage

I love Southern food, Southern American if you wonder. All of their food packed a punch, very tasty and delicious. I travelled to the South twice and both times just blown away by their food. And I wasn’t even talking about their barbecue. So ever since, I love to put Cajun seasoning on everything, chicken, […]

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Fish Congee

This recipe came to light because I had wisdom tooth removed. I couldn’t eat much but always so hungry so I was eating so much mashed potatoes and scrambled eggs, but I remember when I was a little girl, my mother would always cooked some congee for me, cause whenever I was sick, I didn’t […]

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Sichuan Spicy Wonton

I have a lot of spare time everyday, because I’m “between jobs” or I’m on an early retirement. So lately, I’ve been making things homemade, but I chickened out when I thought, maybe I could try to make homemade wonton wrappers without the pasta machine? So I bought wonton wrappers online, only to realize that […]

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Matcha Bread

If you follow me on social media, you know I have been obsessed with making bread. Which is kinda late, when I think about it, everyone was baking bread at the very early stage of the pandemic, in March 2020. Well I just got my standing mixer and another mouth to feed in March 2021, […]

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Homemade Pan Sheet Pizza

I discovered my love for pizza when I lived in the US. I never liked pizzas that were sold in Indonesia, I think that the sauces were always too sweet. Like they put so much ketchup and instead of the proper tomato sauce made by Italian nonna. But, I’m team white pizza all the way! […]

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Honey Garlic Salmon

I actually love salmon when it’s raw, I think they are so much better. More fatty and succulent. Cooking salmon can be tricky, too long it could dried up the entire dish and we don’t like dried salmon. I opted for smoked salmon most of the time, but it’s not easy or cheap to get […]

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Creamy Mushroom Pasta

Tonight is a vegetarian night! I cooked this for my sister because she loves carbohydrate, and her son loves mushroom. So this is perfect, and easy! It wasnt easy to find heavy cream here, and when I found one, it costs me a fortune, so I ended up making a roux and use milk instead. […]

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Easy Chicken Curry

I just bought spices containers, they are magnetic so I got to organize them on my fridge. They all very colorful with turmeric, paprika, cumin etc. I love looking at them and I got to cook something with them too. I usually make chicken curry using an instant paste cause they are just easier. But […]

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Dill Falafel

Another way to use your leftover dill. I love falafel considering they are vegan. I’m a proud meat eater. But falafel taste so good, something about the spices and herbs combined together and they are pretty healthy, if you made them yourself. The ones from the restaurant usually deep fried, I mean if it was […]