Ichi's Fusion Recipes

1. Sweet Potato Leaves Soup   Ichi's Fusion Recipes: sweet potato leaves soup - Photographed by Acik Mardhiyanti Welcome back to Ichi's Fusion Recipes! Today's topic is budget meals as many food ingredients' prices have gone up because of inflation. Therefore, I want to share easy recipes yet tasty; moreover, it is good for the value of money so that we can still save money for our future. At first, my reason to cook our meals was to save money each month as my partner and I started our life with zero savings. Many or mostly think that I have a good life today because I married a young executive man like some of my university friends who had a dream to marry an executive man so that they would have a good life without hard work. Yeah...about that, while I studied hard (many times until pass midnight or woke up earlier morning), my girlfriends were busy looking for a successful young career man and talked about married and even wanted to get married before completing the...

  Ichi's Fusion Recipes: Beef tripe soup - Photographed by Acik Mardhiyanti What is that beef tripe? Have you ever heard before? In this article, I would like to share a healthy beef soup by choosing beef tripe meat. For you who are a beef lover, to reduce your consumption of beef meat and want a healthy choice, you may try this recipe. As my passion, of course, this is an easy soup yet tasty and healthy!😉🤞 Back then in my hometown, villagers consumed meat only during the festive season day. On other days for most of the whole year, it was just a random veggies menu complete with fried tempeh, fried tofu, or cracker. If they picked another protein, the egg was the choice.  Every household would buy chicken meat and made a chicken curry or soup (Indonesian soup) on that special occasion. Meanwhile, beef, only high society afford and bought it. So, meat wasn't a daily menu in my hometown at that time, it was a special menu for a special occasion or event. No wonder, the old ge...

  Easy meal: Sukiyaki Scallop, ridge gourd soup, Japanese rice, and a glass of chrysanthemum tea - Photographed by Acik Mardhiyanti Welcome to Ichi's Fusion Recipes! How are you doing, anyway? Here in Singapore, we feel easier as the government eases the COVID-19 restriction one example: we can pull off the mask when we walk at a specific place aka open space like the HDB apartment corridor, walking to the market, in a park et cetera. However, you may find out that mostly want to keep masks on although the regulation is much more relaxed now. For me for instance, I want to keep my health (I do not want to get infected by the COVID-19 virus), the second reason is uncomfortable moving; you can imagine when I hold soo many groceries in my hands then I need to put off and put on my mask, that...how I put this...🙄 naahh... I choose to put on my mask whenever I go outside.  Speaking of which, today I am going to share my kitchen recipes which are inspired by Japanese and Indonesian...

  Ichi's Fusion Recipes: dried risotto - Photographed by Acik Mardhiyanti Welcome back to Ichi's Fusion Recipes! What the hell...is that really risotto? 😅 Neither fried rice nor risotto, I call it dried risotto. As usual, this is Ichi's Fusion Recipes which means cooking in a way that I am comfortable with the taste and the ingredients.  Talking about risotto, I haven't eaten this dish before, however, I would like to make it in my style, not the original recipe, which is fusion food.  Moreover, I create it in an easy step that would be easy for the beginner in the kitchen. Furthermore, this recipe suits every one of you who has scramble time in your regular basis life. Another vantage, it does not drain our pocket and healthy meal!😉 A good value of money is good and saving time in the kitchen is great, isn't it? Let's rock! Ichi's Fusion Recipes: dried risotto - Photographed by Acik Mardhiyanti Ingredient: 4-5 portions of white rice - I am used to cooking...

  Ichi's Fusion Recipes: Stir-fry long bean and wong bok with anchovies broth, Ichi's signature omelet, Japanese gyoza, Japanese rice and a cherry tomato, an apple,  a glass of Jasmine tea - Photographed by Acik Mardhiyanti Welcome back to Ichi's Fusion Recipes. How have you been? Hope you are safe and sound! Today I would like to share a special trick or the easy way how I can still cook healthy food at home while having scramble time. I guess this is crucial for us or everyone who has always been busy yet willing to prepare the meals at home as we consider the health of our family. These are my quick and less preparation cooking! First of all, I am not a fan of buying food outside which means eating out or taking away food. The reason is I often get a sore throat and coughing after eating food from outside right away after eating. Probably because I have always picked healthy ingredients for instance low sodium salt, healthy cooking oil, have never put sugar in my recipes...