Ayam tumis cabe

Gue baru mencoba sebuah resep baru.. Entahlah ini apa judulnya.

Bahan:

- Dada ayam tanpa tulang, tanpa kulit, potong2 sebesar dadu

- 2 cabe merah, iris2

- 1 rawit or cengek, iris2 juga

- bawang merah 2 siung, iris2 tipis

- bawang putih 1 siung, memarkan, cacah halus

- 2 sdm minyak goreng

- sedikit air

- bumbu teriyaki Saori (harus nyebut merk karena ini yang gue pake) secukupnya

Cara membuat:

- Tumis minyak goreng bersama cabe merah, rawit, bawang merah, bawang putih

- Masukkan sedikit saja air

- Masukkan bumbu teriyaki

- Aduk rata

- Masukkan daging ayam

- Aduk rata (sampai si ayam matang)

- Sajikan

Catatan:

Less sugar, less salt, less cholesterol, less fat, high protein. Cocok buat yang diet. Yang penting mah enakkkk!

makanan.. yummy..

Salah satu alasan kenapa gue suka nonton Discovery Travel & Living Channel, selain karena acara jalan-jalannya (bener banget yang orang bilang 'we traveled through television and books'), juga karena acara masak-masakan dan makan.

Hehe.. Secara gue adalah perempuan yang suka sekali makan. Truly a foodlover. Dalam kamus gue, 'rasa' itu cuma ada dua macam: Enak dan enak banget. Ga ada yang ga gue suka. Bahkan daun singkong yang gue agak malas pun, kalau cuma itu yang ada, ya gue makan juga. Hahaha.. Cuma meja dan batu yang ga gue makan.

Walau semua makanan gue suka, hari-hari ini gue lagi kangen sama beberapa makanan:

• Apple pie-nya McDonald jaman dulu. Sayang sekarang udah ga ada. Kebayang kalau dia masih panas, gigitan pertama adalah kulitnya yang garing renyah, disusul lelehan panas selai apelnya. Hmmmmm... Yummy. Manis, hangat, tempting, pokoknya menyenangkan.
• Fish n chips-nya Fish&Co. Dagingnya lembut banget, dilapisi tepung luarnya yang renyah dan hangat, diolesi mayonaise sama dikucurin jeruk nipis. Setelah beberapa saat, basah oleh sari jeruk, tepungnya jadi lunak dan langsung hancur di mulut. Tapi tetep enak.
• Kentang goreng di Amsterdam. Buset ya jauhnya. Tapi memang ga ada yang menyamai. Dijual di kios-kios pinggir jalan, kentangnya bukan kayak french fries beku yang dijual di supermarket. Betul-betul home-made, kentang yang dipotong-potong sendiri dan langsung digoreng (tapi entah dipakein apa sebelum digoreng, karena waktu gue nyoba bikin sendiri, rasanya lain). Dibungkus kertas, seperti jual kacang rebus di sini, lalu dikucuri saus. Ada bermacam-macam sausnya, bisa mayonaise, thousand island, saus tomat atau sambal biasa. Tapi yang paling enak adalah saus daging. Gue lupa namanya apa. Warnanya kecoklatan, kental, berasa daging plus lada hitam. Itu yang paling terkenal dan digemari.
• Pretzel. Bukan pretzel kecil-kecil seperti yang dijual di sini, tapi yang asli, yang guede. Gue sampai terbengong-bengong lihat si pretzel ini, disuguhin hostparents waktu di Marktoberdorf dulu. Asin, memang, tapi enakkk.. Taburan garamnya yang gruntul-gruntul (bahasa apa sih gruntul-gruntul) bikin roti pretzel ada rasanya. Kalau ga nyaman dengan rasa asinnya, bisa juga diolesi selai kayak roti biasa. Malah tambah asyik rasanya. Terus dicelupkan ke dalam secangkir kopi panas. Hmmmmm.

Hoh.. Lapar..

Food and taste

During my delicious lunch with my sister and her friend at The Pacific Place yesterday, I realized the main reason why food makes people like to eat (and becomes fat) is on tastes. Not its nutrition, not also the varied color, nor the shape. The main reason is the taste. Without the taste, food will no longer become an interesting and attractive object. It’s a lie if someone says his/her main reason in consuming certain food is the rich nutrition it has. No matter how high calcium it has, high vitamins, but if the food has no taste, or at least tastes badly, you will not eat that, right?

The doubled mistakes that junk food has is on its good taste and its (very) low nutrition. On the other hand, extreme ways make healthy food also has doubled mistakes; its high nutrition and its not-too-good-taste. Why can’t each kind of those foods be light-hearted and not to be selfish and egocentric? They can meet each other in the middle. Okay, maybe it’s not as easy as it sounds.

Mind if I offer a simpler way? The junk foods to raise a little of its nutrition and to decrease some of the taste, while the healthy food to be a bit more ‘naughty’ by increasing its taste and not being always in a ‘saintly’ nutrition.

Then, I suppose they will make a brighter culinary world for all of us people, right? And a happier people, at least happier in their tongue and their digestive system.

So, back again to my point, what makes people fat is the taste the food has in it. People tend to double – some even triple – their eating portion because of the taste. Not because they are hungry; it’s the good taste that makes people hungry, not the opposite. If hungry is the reason, then the taste makes the hungry thing even doubled.

The world of culinary is turning around the taste. I think everybody can agree with that.

How can we relate the story with our life as human being? Easy. Easy in saying it. Look at the blue sentence before. Be light-hearted, not to be selfish and egocentric on each other, which mean to understand, do empathic, and no want to dominate. A brighter culinary world; a peace in our life. The taste is ‘love’ from The Great Chef Himself. More over, can we be the taste itself?

Difficult in executing.