Ichi's Fusion Recipes

  Dinner idea: couscous, fried shishamo, omelet, and boiled green spinach - Photographed by Acik Mardhiyanti Hi all of you, how you doing? Please be safe, keep healthy, and help each other. Well, it looks like today is different from the past few week's articles that most likely talked about "kampoeng" style dinner. Let's talk what is the story behind this meal 😉 Let's talk one by one, first; couscous. I always keep telling you that rice is a luxury food in my hometown at the time when I was a kid. Thus, villagers substituted this food source with cassava, some other corn. But how I end up eating couscous? Talking about couscous, it neither my culture nor from the place I live today. Remember that I told you I was decided to study at a university that needed 24 hours travel by bus and crossed the sea for 2 hours from my father's house. Since then, I have tried to adapt wherever I stand up my foot. Food is the one that I have to deal with it. So, I ate a piece

  Dinner idea: stir-fried kale with anchovies, tempura tempeh, boiled potato, an orange, and berry tea - Photographed by Acik Mardhiyanti Hi, welcome back to Ichi's Fusion Recipes! How you doing? I always hope all of you are doing fine wherever you are. Anyway, what we have today for a dinner idea? Well, it is my creation that cook kale with anchovies. Have you ever made this dish before? Well, the taste is great!😋 First of all, I would like to talk about the story behind this meal! Many times I have been always talking about tempura tempeh. The only reason is that I love tempeh! Here in Singapore, it is not easy to find this particular food source. Indeed, I could find it at the wet market; unfortunately, the taste is not good as tempeh that sold in the hypermarket. Here the thing that I want to tell you; we manage to go finding tempeh at the hypermarket nearby once a week at a specific time and day. It looks like we have a penchant for hunting precious deer at the mountain 😅 If

Dinner idea: "kampoeng" style; sour soup, veggie fritter, Japanese rice with furikake, an apple - Photographed by Acik Mardhiyanti Hi all of you, how you doing? I hope you are always doing fine and keep your high spirit every day to do a good thing in your life 😊 So, what we have today in my new article? It looks that we are still talking "kampoeng" syles meals, isn't it? That's correct! Let me introduce you to a special soup called sour soup. Back then in my hometown, there were plenty of food sources that most of the villagers planted in their garden or yards, and also field. Selling vegetables, rice, corn, and cassava it's the only choice they have to earn money yet still wasn't enough to provide a decent house, sufficient food, and also education for their kids. Thus, eating cassava to substitute the rice becomes daily life. And rice is a luxury good at the time.  If you are following my article it is easy to find the veggie fritter recipe that

  Dinner idea: "kampoeng" style; veggie curry, omelet, Japanese rice with sweet potato, crackers, watermelon, and a glass of jasmine tea - Photographed by Acik Mardhiyanti Hi, welcome back to my new article on Ichi Fusion's recipes! What you doing? I read the news that the Covid-19 cases in Europe rise up again and I just hope wherever you are please keep healthy and stay vigilant. This is important; wearing a mask when you go outside, going outside only for important matters, for example, buying groceries, medicine, maybe post office, etc, do not gather, wash your hand frequently, bring sanitizer when going outside, and for shopping that it is safe to shop online. What I've believed that we can get this through together, hang in there. There is a light after the storm. So, today I am gonna talk about "kampoeng" style dinner menu again. Remember the word "kampoeng" means the village, right? I will write another story about it and it is veggie curry

  Dinner idea: Kampoeng style; spinach&carrot soup, tempura tempeh&tofu, Japanese rice with furikake & salmon paste, a glass of berry tea, and an apple - Photographed by Acik Mardhiyanti Hi, how you doing? Well, today I am going to talk about "kampoeng" style dinner. What is "kampoeng"? If you had read my article before then it is easy for you to know this word. "Kampoeng" means village guys...😊 Yes! it reminds me of how we ate a long time ago in the village. I miss that day... Tempeh was a common food in my hometown. Every household cooked this menu and it was identic with poor people. We cooked tempeh in many styles of dishes such as tempura tempeh, curry tempeh, fried tempeh, patties, etc. That's right that we challenged our limit and it was where creativity came from.  One of them was how to cook tempeh into many kinds of delectable foods. I wrote a tempura tempeh recipe in my book as a bonus that gives you 2 ways how to make it. Eatin