Fried [raw] oyster

From Rad Sujanto on Food and Cooking by rad sujanto

January 29, 2009

I’d just like to share one of my fave foods. It’s fried oyster. I believe it’s Chinese as I’ve always had it at Chinese stalls. I heard that oyster helps you get more stamina (I mean ‘stamina’) aka more of masculinity for men. Well, I don’t personally like eating it because I knew the ‘power’ of it but I just like the taste of the cooking.

Anyway, today I had one for dinner. This time I wasn’t really lazy unlike usual waiting for the food at my table but I stood waiting in front of the stall while watching the cook making the meal. I then got surprised that they used raw oysters not even boiled. I was surprised in a good way. “Ah, that’s why they always taste fishy”

Don’t take it wrong. I mean they didn’t really fry the raw oyster but only the other ingredients like the flour and egge (yea... I also found out that the ingredients were only flour and eggs which disappointed me a bit hehe)

Hmmm... love oysters!

Me on Culinate

From Rad Sujanto on Food and Cooking by rad sujanto

January 9, 2009

I’ve been a member of Culinate since months ago. I was interested in joining as a member because I was following one tv show on Discovery Travel and Living channel hosted by Andrew Zimmern called Bizarre Food. He’s a food traveler. He’s very famous as well as his show so I’m pretty sure you’ve heard of him if you’re into traveling and eating! LOL

Just yesterday I updated my account here; changing my old display picture, giving more details about myself, and also posting a blog there for the first time. Yes, I just found out their new feature of blogging here. It also has News Feed showing whatever you currently do plus a status update.

Anyway, this morning I was hungry but didn’t know what to eat. I then remembered a recipe that I made on my own a couple days ago and gave it another try this morning for my breakfast and I made it!

It is called Creggkers with Thousand Island and Sambal Bawang. It’s only a snack anyway. More details about the ingredients and the method of making it is neatly written in my Recipe Box. Have it a check if you’re interested =)

Speak of Culinate itself, I kind of like this website. The way they help the users to write their recipe is very helpful and easy! And it’s pretty interactive as you can interact with other recipe posters or just food lovers here.

If you’re already a member here, let’s be friends!

So, what did you have this morning? Whatever it was, hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed mine =)

I just cooked!

From Rad Sujanto on Food and Cooking by rad sujanto

January 7, 2009

. totally on my own! Can’t believe it I managed to make a nice meal! Hehe. So, since my sister and her son are away in Surabaya, her husband is working in the rig and while my mum is in Singapore, the only ones left in the house are my dad, my niece and (why!) me. Hummm first time becoming the ‘mum’ in the house. So, I cooked for everyone today...

I planned to make fried chicken today. It turned out more than just that =)

I quickly went to the supermarket to get what needed for the meal such as fresh cut chicken, flavored flour and... that’s all! =) I did have the rest of the ingredients in our kitchen hehe.

So, let me just share with you how I made the meal.

I washed the chicken while boiling about 1 liter of water with heaps of Oyster sauce, a bit of salt and two tiny pieces of turmeric in order to get rid of the chicken smell. When clean enough I then put the chicken in.

I stood... waiting. Getting a bit boring...

I checked the chicken quite often to see if it’d cooked well already. After several checks suddenly I thought about an idea. “Let’s use the chicken curry!”

Yes instead of wasting the curry, I thought of re-using it to make a soup. So, I checked my refrigerator to see what we had. There were carrots, eggs, macaroni, chillies, and everything else I can hardly name here =P

“One carrot, macaroni and an egg should be enough” for some reason I spoke to myself.

Washed the carrot, peeled off the skin slightly and cut it into smaller slices. I honestly don’t really like carrots in any way. So, I sliced it into four different ‘styles’. The purpose was to make it look cute and ‘edible’. It seemed to work =)

Once the chicken was cooked enough and taken out of the pan, I then put it in to a bowl full of the flavored flour before then I fried it.

In meantime, I put the sliced carrot in to the left curry with the macaroni and egg. Not just that I also put in a secret ingredient too... hummm, French bread butter! Haha, I didn’t even know it was in our refrige. I know it was for the bread but who would know? I was alone in the kitchen. Ssshhhh...

I am so not good at writing a good and organized recipe.

More details and pictures can be found here