Bolognese Sauce

Ingredients:

• 500g minced Beef
• 4 large Tomatoes
• dried Basil
• 1 large Onion
• 4 cloves Garlic
• Mushroom (sliced) - optional
• Sugar
• Salt
• Pepper
• 1 cube Beef stock
• olive oil

How-to:

1. Chop onion and garlic finely and set aside. Cut 2 tomatoes into half and put them in a blender and blend them for 30 seconds. We need the juice from the tomatoes. Dice 2 other tomato.
2. In a large frying pan splash olive oil over a medium heat. When oil is hot, put chopped garlic and onion. Saute until they sweat and the onion become soft.
3. Put mince beef into the pan and cook the beef until turning brown and the juice came out.
4. When the beef is cooked, pour the tomato juice and diced tomato into the pan. Season with salt, pepper, sugar, basil and beef stock. Stir well and put the lid on. Let it simmer 1 to 2 hours over a slow heat and stir occasionally.

Serve : 6-8

Source : My mom :D

This is her recipe. From baby till now, my mom always cook the same bolognese. The difference between her recipe and this recipe is she didn't simmer the bolognese, because my dad love it runny. But I tried the one that simmered for an hour, and it tastes heaven! You can actually taste the tomato on the beef. :) And don't forget to sprinkle it with parmesan cheese :D

Bolu Kukus 200 (Indonesian Cupcakes)

Ingredients:

• 200g Granulated Sugar
• 2 Eggs
• 200g Flour
• 200ml Sparkling water/Sprite
• 1 tsp Emulsifier
• Food colouring

Methods:

1. In a large bowl put all the ingredients. Mix with a hand mixer until thick and creamy.
2. Fill a bowl (or more) with the creamy mixture and coloured it with a drop of food colouring.
3. Cover moulds with cupcakes paper and pour the white mixture and the coloured mixture to the moulds.
4. Steam for 20 minutes until the cake rises.

Serves: 24

Source : NCC

Actually, you can you use either sprite or sparkling water. But when you use sparkling water, make sure you add a teaspoon of vanilla extract. Because sprite has already taste in it. and we need the taste of vanilla or the sprite to get rid the taste of the eggs. In Indonesia they have special moulds for Bolu Kukus. The moulds for Bolu Kukus have holes in the bottom. So the Bolu Kukus will rise perfectly. But, here in Germany I can only find muffins/cupcakes moulds. I tried using the cupcakes moulds, and it's actually works. But, the cake won't rise to maximum and the cake is little bit wet when you take it out from the steamer. But still, it tastes like the one in Indonesia!

Rum-free Tiramisu

Ingredients :

• 3 Egg Yolks
• 75g  White Sugar
• 80ml  Milk
• 150ml  Heavy Cream
• 1ml  Vanilla extract
• 225g  Mascarpone Cheese
• 30ml  Strong brewed Coffee (Room temperature)
• 1 package  Lady Finger cookies
• Unsweetened coco powder for sprinkle

How-to:

1. In medium saucepan, whisk egg yolk and sugar until well blended. Whisk in milk and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture boils. Boil gently for 1 minute, remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly. Cover tightly and chill in refrigerator 1 hour.
2. In a medium bowl, beat cream and vanilla until stiff peak consistency. Whisk mascarpone cheese into yolk mixture until smooth. Mix cheese yolk mixture with the cream until well mixed.
3. Soak Ladyfingers into coffee, and arrange them in bottom of the dish. Spread half of cream cheese mixture over ladyfingers and sprinkle with cocoa powder. Repeat layers. Cover and refrigerate 4 to 6 hours, until set.

Serve : 4

Source : Allrecipe

The original recipe use rum and mixed it with coffee. But since alcohol is a no for me, I didn't use any rum or rum extract. And the original recipe separate the cream and the egg cheese mixture. I don't really like cream, so I mixed the cream with egg cheese mixture. I had seen a recipe that use the same method, combining the cream and the egg cheese mixture. And cooking the egg is a must for me, to avoid salmonella. The classic tiramisu uses raw eggs. And I had a bad experience with uncooked egg :( So, cooking the egg is the safest way, you can serve it to everyone.