Hey December, do you know?
There is a wild wind that blowing over the sky
higher throughout than the mountains
and wider much more than the sea
The wind that ever froze the shadow
A rumor were spreading to any human
That the heart would be in painful if touched
To be frozen and wild in state until lost the humanity
Oh December, do you know?
There is a song in the silence to keep hoping
That's why there's a pray in you
Named a December's wish
Just like a jingle to dancing in the stars
To praying a miracle stay alive...
~ Calling December's Wish @Heiki
Noodles and prawn. Two things that taste contradiction to me. Why? I'm noodle addicts and most to consume it among my family. And prawn, back to my childhood, that was my first seafood but unfortunately I had allergies so it was a tough times to eat them. It wasn't only seafood but the doctor, that my mom brought me to a specialist, alerted me to avoid almost all kind of food but only eat vegetables. Including chicken or egg (that time, KFC was quite be a high-class food, until now it's still pricey, so yeah, that's why we learn to have it homemade right?) were a disaster. As soon as I eat, my skin been the worst and feels sooo itchy, ugly in looks for there were a lot and lot of bumps, hundred like you see dots pattern, from a small size and then became wider (that's why my mom brought me to doctor). I am trauma in fact, mentally. I just like, what is that? I can't eat anything? I'm all wondered and cried (that's made my mom sooner brought me to doctor). Grown up, I still in worried if caught up to eat seafood or chicken (thank God I can still eat kampong chicken) like in the wedding or party, somehow I'm safe but if not, it's really a tough times. Imagine if you got contact with poisonous caterpillar and see what's happen to your skin.. all the itchy scary bubbles, that's it, a horrible views. I'm panic, mentally, always. Couldn't sleep at night, hanging on my worries even I try to hiding all those scary look. With the biggest challenge, to scratch it. Once did, can't hold to stop! Until someday, I decided to letting myself naughty to eat all the forbidden food with all risk. So chicken? crabs? prawn? egg? I eat all that in greed. Believe me, I've forgotten when did I start (maybe because the trauma). So if the doctor asked me to avoid all those food, I do reversed. My family knows that, they just fine if I feeling fine too. Now, it's all doesn't matter to me. I had no allergic on those all forbidden food. Perhaps it's because the immune system grow stronger since I'm grown? Maybe. I'm still aware myself to keep careful to eat, especially when the food comes really raw or not so hygiene. Funny thing, the allergic still come out but in different case, just when I'm in unconscious to be nervous. Like I moving to new place, I'm excited but not my body, and it happens few time. I even absent for work after the first day just because they suddenly come out. Who would not scared to see me like that? Tragic, I have some friends hate on me for something I couldn't deny (well, for example, when I moved to next higher grade since elementary to senior high school, yeah... they comes out and place me on awkward situation, when my skin goes red with all dots, on neck, on face and I'm less in concentration because the itchy things.). Thankfully, in positive views, I thought this experience could be a challenged something to let me understand how food can be a toxin and how this body should be appreciated. Yeah, maybe I did a 'good greedy' that time.
So what's the connection with noodle? It helped me, that time, when eat rice was so boring since I couldn't eat anything. That's how I finally know about ramen. I get used to eat noodle dish as single dish, while my dad would not be satisfied if he didn't eat rice (he's really Indonesian, right?) and noodle are just a complementary in our table. As a result, we would enjoy in the form of Chinese food such stir-fry with vegetable and meat. Tasty indeed but only me, in little obsession. It's also because instant noodle (or instant ramen) was so popular, though I know for some people there's no difference between ramen and the instant ones especially to those who haven't tried what ramen actually is. Poor me, I remembered I've tasted ramen that tastes like instant ramen. So what I mean is, everything in that past helped me much than I thought. A love for ramen, maybe beginning from eating instant ramen to started a home cooking, I don't say I've created best ramen, but at least, the part of those memories was treating the same love. A love for prawn, I remembered how hard it was to eat just for worry. One helped, one challenged. And both, to be loved.
For the side dish, I made bok choy tempura. First, I love to eat any vegetable tempura. It's such a clever way to able to eat vegetable especially to whom hate the bitter taste or dislike vegetable in any reason. I know sometimes it's tough to eat several vegetables. Although the fried part isn't a good thing to have it often and probably losing the nutrition. Just make sure to use fresh oil to fry and quick processed to still gaining the good benefit. Along with a homemade batter which means no MSG used. Here two versions battered dough I love to shared!
Version 1 - Soft Crispy
300 gram high protein flour
50 gram corn flour
1 yolk
1 tbsp milk powder
2 cloves garlic, mashed
1/2 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp baking soda
300 ml cold water
1/2 tsp chicken powder (no
MSG) or salt, the saltiness level is depend as you want
- mix well all dry ingredients,
add yolk and cold water until smooth, no lump sign
- do not over mix
- keep the batter in cold
temperature, then ready to use
Version 2 - Hard Crispy
250 gram flour
50 gram rice flour
100 gram corn flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tbsp milk powder
2 cloves garlic, mashed
1/2 tsp black pepper (or
pepper)
1/2 tsp chicken powder (no
MSG) or salt
cold water, the condensed result are
depend as you want
- mix well all dry ingredients,
add cold water gradually to get the thickness as you want
- do not over mix
- keep in cold temperature, then ready to use
|
0 komentar:
Post a Comment