Archive for the ‘Asia’ Category
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Spicy Javanese Chicken (Surinamese)
Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Here’s a spicy variation of the Javanese Chicken, which is how I prefer to prepare this dish. The difference with the regular Javanese Chicken is that I use some curry, fresh Habanero, Scotch Bonnet or Madame Jeannette peppers and a little bit more sugar. 1 lb chicken, cut up 0,5 onion, sliced 3 cloves garlic, [...]
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Tempeh with spitskool (Surinamese-Javanese)
Friday, January 30th, 2009
This recipe, which I really love, is vegetarian and proves to me that vegetarian food can be healthy and delicious too! The recipe is almost the same as the one with tofu and eggplant because they have the same basics. However, the “tempeh” makes it taste completely different. Some clarifications, before we get to the recipe. [...]
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Javanese Chicken (Surinamese)
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Javanese chicken and bami are often eaten together in Suriname and can be found in many “eethuisjes” or “warungs” (Mom-and-Pop eating places). This is one dish that could be called a typical or traditional dish because it is very popular among the Surinamese people. After slavery was abolished, many immigrants were “gathered” (or tricked, depending on how you [...]
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Javanese Bami (Surinamese)
Sunday, January 18th, 2009
“Javaanse Bami” (Dutch translation) is a typical dish in Suriname. Bami (or bakmi) is an Indonesian type of noodles, however we have always used regular spagetti noodles in my family and it tastes just fine. Another name for this dish is “Bami Goreng” which is simply Indonesian for stir-fried noodles. Our recipe is quite different [...]
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Saoto Soup (Surinamese-Javanese)
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
It’s New Year’s Eve (already) when I start this post and because I didn’t get a chance to post for the Christmas holidays, I was determined to write something on the last day of 2008. It’s been a heck of a year that seemed to fly by like a whirlwind! So this post did not [...]
