Villa 90 Gunung Geulis

January 25th, 2009
Have a nice sunday for you all!
Since tommorow still holiday here in Indonesia (Chinese new year), so we going to spent this long weekend at gunung geulis, Bogor.
By chance, a big boss of a friend of ours has a villa there, actually the villa doesnt have name, but when we get it from the main road, there is a board with "Villa 90" on it.


As we get in to the villa yard.. the fresh air fullfiled our lungs, it's cloudy over here. The weather getting cold in the night.

1rst weekend of 2009 at Carita

My bloved family was going to have family holidays at Carita on the first weekend of 2009. We've been planning this since last July.
Friday, January 2nd 2009, we woke up early, 06.00 WIB..
After having buryam as breakfast, we, my bloved hubby, me and my bloved brother, driver my bloved mom to Lebak bulus bus terminal, cause she will going home to Cilacap. It's 08.20 when we arrived at Lebak bulus, and voilaa..the bus that will take my mom home departed just now..
After a little discussion, my mom agree take the bus from Kampung Rambutan bus terminal, so my brother take her there.
Then, I and my bloved hubby going to Om Yanis's home, which place that we'll depart to Carita.
When we got there, 09.00..hmmm..seem we're the first who finished preparing.
After waiting all family gathered, 12.00..(ppfffhh..we spent about 3hours only for waiting), finally we got in to bus which took us to Carita.
The journey is about 3hours, 70% of it is a high way road.
We out from high way road at cilegon, and starting with lokal road that were very unproper with so many hole along it, give us pain in our ass and our back when passed it, also made us think..how far again??
But the unwanted journey was paid with when we step our foot in Mutiara Carita cottage. Such an interesting place ..

January

Here comes january..first month in a new year, always bring a new hope..new spirit to pass through the coming year...
For Indonesian, Januari is abbreviation from hujan sehari-hari..it's mean raining all along the day..and every day..
Yupe, rain fall in the morning..in the noon..in the midnight..make you feel so comfort for late wake up in the morning..:-)

Yearning for Mendoan..a tasty Javanese food

Last Wednesday, when we got home from office, we drop in to a traditional market, Palmerah market to buy some veggie. Suddenly, I saw a fermented soybean cake seller beside the veggie seller, and when I came to her..wooouw..surprise, she sold a thin fermented soybean cake names tempe mendoan in Java, actually it's rare to be sold.
Mendoan, the taste of it always make us yearn for home, it is originally Banyumas ( a place in Java) food..
Almost every home in Banyumas area served it as their daily food, and we can find it easily in any restaurant there.
Although my bloved hubby comes from Toraya, but he loves mendoan so much. The first that he ate was my bloved mom's home made mendoan. For those who never taste it, you really really should try it, eaten lukewarmly with sliced cilli poured with kecap (soybean liquid)...hmmmmm...really yummy.
And it's very easy to made it.

You just have to provide :
5 a thin fermented soybean cake ( tempe mendoan )
100 gr wheat flour
100 ml water
200 ml oil (to fry )
50 gr diced daun bawang
To be smoothed :
1 sp ketumbar
1 sp salt
2 garlic
The sauce :
diced chilli
soybean liquid (ketjup)


Mix wheat flour in a bowl with water, put the smoothed spices, stirr it well. add put diced daun bawang, stirr it again. Put 1 thin fermented soybean cake.
Heat the oil in a jar, after the oil is hot, put thin fermented soybean cake that already cover with mixed wheat flour. Fry it half done.
Then serve it with the sauce. Really yummy...ymm.ymm.ymmm
My bloved hubby could ate it all by a second.