About Me

My name is Tatie, originally from Surabaya, the second biggest town in Indonesia before I moved to  Slovenia in 2007. Here, I started working with internet, creating a blog and building a website.  I enjoy cooking and living abroad makes me missing all the delicious food from my birth-home country. I am lucky. I was born and grew up in a place where I could enjoy and got spoiled by different kind of yummy MOUTH-WATERING food and beverages. The choice of food in Indonesia is practically unlimited … from street vendor food to fancy restaurants they offer different choices of delicious food. I am always looking forward to go for visiting my homeland and spoil myself with delicious food.

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My desire for cooking was passed on to me from my mother. My basic understanding of cooking was built when I was living in Indonesia by observing how she cooks the daily dishes for the whole family. Her instructions and tips help me prepare Indonesian dishes while I live so far away from my homeland where there is no way I can find food stalls along the street selling the Indonesian food I am craving for. Slowly I managed to learn how to mix and match the spices to get the genuine taste.  First time I wanted to make Indonesian food, it wasn’t easy because I couldn’t find the ingredients, especially the spices. So I had to substitute the spices with others, for example instead of using candle nuts, I used almond. Fortunately by the time, I found shop that selling Indonesian spices, even though we have to drive about 4 hours to neighbour’s country. We just go there once or twice in a year and buy more for the whole year’s stock. Now I can make almost all the Indonesian food I crave for.

I have been experimenting in my kitchen with recipes I got from my mother, relatives, friends or books. I adapted them to my taste, without losing their original taste. I believe cooking is more than just following rules. It is also about interpreting the recipes and knowing how to adapt them to fit your taste.  I started making this website in 2008 and store all the recipes that I’ve tried. I don’t have culinary basic school or photography skill. I created the pictures using my husband’s old digital camera. Just enough to represent the look of the food, no art food involved 🙂  I really hope this website will give others more knowledge about Indonesian food.

ENJOY COOKING!

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