hello people

the first entry of this blog: 

you may or may not already read a little about me on that left side of this page. and it's may or may not all that there's to know about me. i dont have much life to share with you guys, because i'm not that social. i dont really know what to write, for this journal came on a whim.

so maybe for the starter.

yummm...pancakes

make you drool, doesnt it? i like pancakes, and there are more varieties of it than i first thought. every  western (even asian) country has its own recipe and the way to cook it. it's also really really old food, even before the medieval period. you can read it here for the enormous pancake-y detail ;). 

we indonesian people has our own special recipe tough. apem and it's cousin serabi. apem original recipe come from india, called appam.

appams are bowl-shaped thin pancakes made from fermented rice flour. they derive their shape from the small Appachatti in which they are cooked. appam are fairly neutral in taste and mostly served with some spicy condiment or curry. These hoppers are made from a batter using rice, yeast, salt and a little sugar. After the mixture has stood for a couple of hours, it can be fried in the appachatti with a little oil. In south-central Kerala, it is mostly served with Kadala (Chickpea) curry mutton or vegetable stew or egg roast. they have many variation too.

the indonesian apem, 

not much different from the indian appam or western pancakes. you can make it from rice flour or wheat flour tough. the taste's not so different. it also has cultural meaning for javanesse moslem people, mostly in mid java. the ceremony called yaqowiyu/ saparan which people throwing apem and the one who got it   tourists have their own fascination with it. 

that really makes me hungry now. and to think i dont have breakfast yet. it's so random doesnt it, from pancakes to this. almost educational things. haha. i lost my mind. by the way, pictures' sources are from many sites, blogs, ofc. you know, google.

wish you already got satisfying meal....
bye