Bitterballen Kriwul - part of my journey

What is your treat for this weekend? 

Ours is a hearthy bitterballen... Growing up with my grand mother who happens to be a dutch descendant give me an awkward habbit as a young girl.. 

Yes.. im very used to have an afternoon tea with tasty bites.. and most of them i can still picture in my mind ..nom nom.. 

One of my fave is bitterballen.. 

Most of us might have address it as 'kroket ragut'.. but let me tell you.. its not krokettjes... as it doesnt have potato dough.. instead we are having ragout as their basic ingredients.. 

Let me give you my recipe (i modify my mom's recipe) : 

Ingredients : 

300 gr multi-purpose flour 

150 gr margarine 

1 cloves garlic - finely ground 

2 cloves shallots - finely chopped 

200 ml milk

75 gr shredded cheddar 

75 gr minced meat of chicken -boil with 200 ml of water, season with 1 tsp of salt and 2 tbs of sugar 

pepper and nutmeg - seasoned well 

Solvent  

2 egg - beat well 

1 tbs of flour - mix with half cup of water 

1 cup panko flour for breaded 

How to make : 

1. Warm the margarine - sauted garlic and shallots till its fragrant.. add flour - stir well 

2. Add milk, minced meat and the broth and cheddar.. 

3. Seasoned well - add pepper, nutmeg (I add 2 tbs of sugar too ..) 

4. when the dough is set, turn off the stove - set aside

5. take 1 tbs - make a ball shape - do all at once 

6. Prepare the solvent before you bread the ball 

7. Dip the ball and roll it on the breaded flour - set aside

8. Put the breaded ballen into the fridge for at least 30 minutes.. 

9. Deep fried till its light brown and serve warm with mayo 

Hope you like it.. i love having it with a cup of fragrant rose tea :) 

Have a lovely afternoon friendtjes..

Satu hari di penghujung September

Satu hari di penghujung September...
Saat  hari-hari yang biasanya sudah dipenuhi rintik kecil gerimis maupun bau tanah selepas hujan.. Namun sampai saat ini masih dipenuhi kelembaban..

Kadang.. saya merasa kalau dunia ada di dalam genggaman..
Saat mendapati suami menatap penuh sayang,
Atau ketika terbangun dari tidur dan mendapati diri berada dalam pelukannya semalaman..

Kadang saya merasa bahwa Gusti Allah sangat bermurah hati dengan memberikan saya kelurga penuh cinta..
Iya .. sangat penuh cinta..
Ketika satu masalah selesai secepat masalah yang lain timbull.. dan semuanya dapat selesai dengan banyak pertimbangan.dan sejuta pelukan..

Kadang.. saya merasa lupa bersyukur.. atau bahkan terlena atas seluruh nikmat yang ada...
Saat terlalu memikirkan dunia..  #sigh..
Ketika terlewat memanjatkan doa untuk orang-orang terkasih yang sudah bersamaNya...
Atau tak paham ketika telah tiba saatnya untuk duduk diam dan berdoa..

Kadang saya merasa bawa sudah cukup berhak untuk bertanya padaNya..
atas seluruh rantaian peristiwa yang mengganggu rasa...

hmm..

Padahal.. apa yang sudah diberikanNya?
Sepasang buah hati yang sehat lahir batin.. dan alhamdulillah sampai saat ini tak henti membuat saya bersyukur atas mereka...
Imam yang sangat paham makmumnya.. berbesar hati atas seluruh kekurangan bidadarinya..
dan memaklumi atas seluruh khilaf yang tercipta.. bahkan mengambil alih saat saya salah jalan..

Gustii Allah..
ijinkan saya.. di satu hari di penghujung September ini.. untuk kembali bersujud syukur padamu..
berterima kasih atas seluruh rizki yang berlimpah..

Atas iman Islam..
Atas keluarga dan teman-teman.. yang shalih shaliha.. dan senantiasa mengingatkanku atas kodratMu..
Matur suwun sanget .. karena memberikan kami lingkungan yang memudahkan kami untuk senantiasa mengingatMu.. serta bersujud padaMu..
We never have enough of You..

Jagakan kami.. serta keturunan kami dari seluruhh kesusahan di dunia dan akhirat.. tumbuhkan iman Islam kami.. dekatkan ukhuwahh kami.. mudahkan kami untuk senantiasa dapat berdzikir padaMu, Gusti..
Mudahkan kami untuk berprasangka baik.. jauhkan kami dari sifat suudzonn dan riya..

Aamiin ya Rabbal Aalamiin...

Jatisari, 24 Sept 2015
inspire by hubby morning message - when he have to be on duty during Eid Adha..
Luv.. matur suwun atas seluruh jihadnya..
We love you .. even more than you know..

Easy-peasy Non bake Chese Cake

Hello everyone,

What a week .. Im trying to catch my breath while on the same time, trying my best to have a 'me-time' and quality time with kiddos as well..

Children loveess sweet things.. they have sweet tooth- just like me :) .. well, mine especially..
There have been times when they would like to have either pudding or ice cream of cheese cake.. and today - i decided to make a simple dessert - a comforting one - easy to make - non bake cheese cake.

The original recipe, of course was not mine.. But to tell you the truth, im taking a little of this and that from several recipes..

So, this is my recipe :

Easy-Peasy Non-Bake Cheese Cake

Bahan2 :

1 bks biscuit marie regal – roughly ground 

1 sachet skm putih

15 keping biscuit keju 

Bahan Cream cheese:

150 gr keju cheddar parut

1 bks susu dancow – dicairkan dengan 200 ml air

200 ml susu cair

6 sdm gula pasir

1 sdm munjung maizena – dicairkan dengan 2 sdm air

1 bks whip cream (saat ini pakai merk pondan)

240 ml caramel frappe instant (bisa diganti dengan susu cair atau air es)

Cara membuat :

11. Mix the roughly ground biscuit with melted margarine or butter ( i use 2 full tbs ) 

22. Make them as cake base - put them  in the fridge whilst you are making cheese melt 

33. Boil milk - add shredded cheddar and sugar. Let it boiled and add maize - turn the stove off , keep stirring until its warm. Put the chiz biscuit as another layer - put it back on the fridge. 

.   4. Next shall be whip cream. I am using one bottle of instant caramel frappe and mix it with vegetarian WC . Use a high-speed mixer  for 5 - 10 minutes till it set. Pour WC on top and let it freeze for another 30 minutes

   . And its ready to eat.. Have fuuunnnnn :) 

Macaroni Kukus - a hearty dish..

Dear Readers,

Rasanya dah lama banget gak turun gunung.. eh turun dapur :) ...
Setelah cek bahan-bahan di dapur.. i decided to make an easy peasy simple Macaroni Kukus..

Kedua pelangi hati kami sangat gemar macaroni.. sepertinya yang menyamai maconi ya hanya ragam mie-mie an..

Well,.. to cut the story short.. this is how to make an easy peasy simple dish :

Ingredients :

175 gram elbow macaroni - boiled al dente
1 big beef sausage (my ego, as i dont particularly like sausage :) .. )
150 ml plain milk
1 tbs salt
2 full tbs of cream sup - mix with 150 gr warm water, stir well ,
1 tbs of flour mix with 5 tbs water
3 eggs - lightly beaten
75 gr of shredded cheddar chese
salt and pepper to taste
1 tbs margarine

How to make :

1. Boil elbow macaroni till its al dente (more or less 10 min after the water boils) - rinse with cold water
2. Warm cream soup which already mix with water .. when its already turn into thick cream.. add the solution which consist of half cup of warm water mix with 1 tbs of multi purpose flour.. stir until it dissolve and blend. Add salt and pepper
3. Turn off the stove, keep stirring, add milk, and eggs.. - take half of it, mix with boiled macaroni..
4. Pour into the pan.. arrange the sausage and pour the rest of solution and sprinkle cheddar chese
5, Cover pan with aluminium foil - now steam it for around 30 minutes till it sets.

Have a hearty dish, everyone...

Work work work

Dear Readers, 

I know that its been a while for me getting spider web in this blog around...

Yes.. forgive my inability to do a good time management, as always.. 

Been here and there.. 

Works -- both in office and home took most of my times.. 

After getting a full time position at P&O - yess company prefer to call it that way, instead of the usual HR, in which im doing Recruitment for 3 company. The job coverage includes participating in Job Fairs and in addition to it I also learn to prepare Job Profile and Job Desc .. This is not including assistance given for several employee engagement projects and some bit and tat :)..

Well, its not that im complaining but, its quite time consuming.. even though im trying to catch up the bloody 10 years (maybe) :D ..
However, my awkward time management has caused some chaos in this and that.. if i may say.. and to be frank, nothing that i regret :)

At time being, i m processing a MT program - which has caused me some confusion and mixed up feelings. The office asked me to participate into job fairs - in which started since May and June in Jakarta and Mid August in Jogja.. My first experience and i really need to convince my self to do so.

It was three fine events even in Jogja when i have to travel by my self, carrying two laptops and one projector.. Got some supports from my besties and the organizer, i found the event was so fruitfull and managed to bring more CV as candidates..

Well.. there are some more stages that i have to go through.. would likely going back to Jogja end of this month.. .

I'll tell you the story later, guyz..

Wassalamualaikum..

Is it a Flaw? Or a blessing?

Dear readers,...

After a few serious postings - yess i labelled all work-about postings as "serious postings", now i will write about a few blessings i have in life...

I called it a blessing,while some people said, it is one of my biggest flaw..
Now, let me tell you why...

You all know how 'extrovert' i am .. i am open minded, laugh and smile a lot, straight talking.. and even though i can be super introvert in certain condition.. but.. it is easy to make friends with me. I have plenty of acquaintances,, lots of friends, and a few very very good friends.. (and yessss.. i am very picky when it comes to close friends.. )

and the blessing that i call is also one of my flaw.. it is when i care too much...
Yess, when i care too much..

At the beginning, i m  raised and  taught to care for others.. and i dont expect anything as a return. It is my habit to greet other people, starting from saying good morning, ask how are they doing, and smile to them too. For those who have met me, you all know that i really look like any other indonesian, so lots of people would feel that my face looks so familiar to them and i might remind them to any family members, friends, acquaintance or others. When we get quite close, most of the times they tell me their little secrets, one and another.. and to be frank, sometimes its a burden, but most of the time its a blessing for me.. an opportunity to look into things from different angle..

And again, i feel so blessed. However, sometimes in life, we cant make all people happy.. We cant expect others to see and understand what we do or what our intentions are...
We just cant, frankly...

In some cases i have put my limit, try to control what i feel, how I should behave, how I should react toward lots of things that doesnt seems to be right..
I have start another journey, which is not entirely me.. or correction - which is considered to be more what common - metropolis-people do..
I have try to do my utmost to become a stiff ignorant person, into things that i shouldnt put my hand into... Yes i have try to limit what i should have done long time ago..
Considering that it is one way for not upsetting the applecart..

I always think, if we can be good, why should we do bad?
It is so true that we cant save the entire universe, But, we have to try to do our utmost..
Yess.. i think i might have care too much..
Maybe... I think if i do good, it will return good...
And of course, the result will be good for others too..

But again, i dont know whether i can call it a blessing, a flaw or my plus point..
It all depends on what angle you are looking..
At the end of the day, its ours that count, isnt it..

well,, is it a flaw, or a blessing ?
You tell me.. :)

Role and Responsibilities - new chapter, new beginning...

Dear Readers, 

Its been  a while for me not posting something a bit serious... 
Yes... im trying hard to cope with my new role in the office. 

I finally got challenged.. remember my previous posting here, after his successor arrive, this new guy have decided to take me in to his team.   He gave me some new role, as a recruitment officer and assist him in several other things, which in some ways are quite multitasking-job. 

According to Wikipedia role is : 
"a set of connected behaviours, rights, obligations, beliefs, and norms as conceptualised by people in a social situation. It is an expected or free or continuously changing behaviour and may have a given individual social status or social position. It is vital to both functionalist and interactionist understandings of society"

So, considering the above, it is quite clear what role is all about. 

My role as mentioned above is something new to me, which need more time for me to understand the whole thing. it simply means i have to start over the whole things... i need to manage my self, how to cope with it.. Extra responsibilities (Based on business dictionary, responsibility is A duty or obligation to satisfactorily perform or complete a task (assigned by someone, or created by one's own promise or circumstances) that one must fulfill, and which has a consequent penalty for failure) for who i am now..

The moving process is not easy, far than simple as i have list of people who thinks that i am not worth any penny for the new role and getting new responsibilities. Still carrying an old one, i always think that it is the learning process.

I learn that somehow, we can try to do out utmost, and it may not be enough..
And we just have to do it once more.. I think my new boss knows that i  am trying to do my utmost, and if i do it wrongly I will go straight to him, confess and try to do better.

Got my ears chews , and my only goal is how to get things done in a right way. Seems that under him i got even more focus at work.. Extra hours for sure, but i find my self challenged for something new.. I found list of what m KPI is.. I even have schedule for one week long..

I am exhausted, but feel challenged and I cant be challenged.. i have to finish what i started.. at least this is a good opportunity for me to jump and learn something new.

I found obstacles, testpackers, unpleasant comments, but I put all of them aside. .

I learn that when we are trying hard to move forwards, this might have create instability to other people who are connected to us in some ways.. And until they find their balance, inconvenience exist .
That is when i have choose, whether to stay or find my new balance.. to move on,, And of course.. I choose to move forward, whatever it takes... What relieve me is when hubby support me fully... And again.. i remember QS 55 : 13 - Fabbi ayyi a'laa irabbikumaa tukadzzibaan...

At the end..

I am thankful for what i have, and for what i am

Matur suwun sanget, gusti Allah, for all the blessings..

#jatisari, 31st Jan 2015
in my sweet bed