I decided to take up my culinary experience up a notch. If I usually make delicious difficult-to-prepare food (such as Indonesian food) with the help of some ready made spice mixture, this time I decided to make things from scratch. Or sort of. The menu for today: lamb curry.
When my sister was staying over at my place, she showed me to cook opor ayam (chicken in coconut sauce) with a mix of proper and easy way – which unfortunately due to it’s yummy factor, went down the digestive system without being properly immortalized. I did however take a picture of the side dish, triple-beans stir-fry, or tumis kacang panjang/tempe/tauge. Both are two of my favourite Indonesian dishes. Here are my (and my sister’s) way of cooking them if you want to try it out.
Ooops… I just realized that I haven’t really posted anything about our Christmas dinner and culinary adventures! I have been posting it in many places such as my Facebook account and I have used it in a holiday newsletter which I sent out to our friends and family, and that’s why I have this feeling that it’s already done here also. Apparently not! Apologies for that, but let me make up for it for posting it here now.
Sometimes my hubby and I opt for a very simple dish which requires no particular skills, extraordinary ingredients or complicated efforts. This time, we chose to have it healthy as well 
so we decided to cook pan-fried salmon with some steamed vegetables and boiled small potatoes.
Remember in my review of 2009 I mentioned that I have this thing where I prefer my recipe books to have pictures? Well in that post I also promised myself that I would try more recipes from the books I have collected over the years.
And the first time I fulfilled this promise was by trying out a recipe from Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats
which I will print and staple on the recipe page
