Tahu Goreng Tepung

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Try to be involved in Indonesian Food Blogger Challenge on Facebook, i put this post as one of indonesian snack. For the first challenge, I made gudeg jogja. And now for the second one, I made this simple food called tahu goreng tepung. Always love simple and easy cooked food but don’t under estimated this kind of food, the taste is so yummy. It’s crunchy and tasty even you just put garlic powder and salt. For people who likes spicy, you can eat with hot chili.

Ingredients:

1 pack tofu

salt

garlic powder

corn flour

1 egg, beaten

Method:

1. Marinated tofu with garlic powder and salt.

2. Fried tofu or you can buy tofu that already fried.

3. Put tofu in the corn flour, then in the egg, then put it again in the flour.

4. Deep fried all of them until its turn the color into golden brown.

Chocolate Chiffon Cake

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Chiffon Cake was really my own favorite cake. This time I took the recipe from Sedap Sekejap magazine (Sedap Sekejap Edisi 3/III/2002). I brought this magazine from my country 🙂 Actually I grabbed some of my mother’s magazines 🙂 Actually i took the recipe of Chiffon Cake Polos but i modified a bit with chocolate paste, then it would taste a bit of chocolate that’s why i called it chocolate chiffon cake.

Ingredients:

part A:

8 egg yolks

125 ml canola oil

125 ml water

200 gr plain flour

1/4 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp soda kue

chocolate paste

Part B:

8 white eggs

250 ml sugar

1/4 tsp cream of tar-tar

How to Make:

1. Preheat the oven 160′. Sifter the flour, baking powder and soda kue. Add canola oil and water. Mix well then add egg yolk one by one. Mix again until becoming a paste.

2. Using the electric mixer, mix together white eggs, sugar and cream of tar-tar until it stiff.

3. Pour part B into part A and mix well slowly using the spatula. Then add a bit of chocolate paste into the batter.

4. Pour the batter into the chiffon pan. Then bake in the oven for about 1 hr.

5. After it done, try to put the skewer into the cake and it finished when the skewer come out clean. Put the cake upside down and let it cool.

BW Wednesday

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This is my sixth time following BW Wednesday challenge hosted by Susan. Just join us in this event, very simple and challenging. I personally really love this challenge. I do love doing BBQ during summer time like now. I did some grilled fish with the whole family.

Banana Cupcake

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I love to have banana at home for my boy lunch box. And I love banana actually 🙂 so no wonder if i always bought banana almost every week.

Ingredients:

2 cups self-raising flour

3/4 cup caster sugar

1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

1 large (200gr) banana, mashed

2. 59g eggs, lightly beaten

125g butter, melted, cooled

Method:

  1. Preheat oven 180′. Prepare muffin/cupcake pan, put the cupcake patty cases inside the pan.
  2. Combine ingredients into a large bowl. Using an electric mixer beat on low speed until combined; increase speed to medium and beat for about 1 minute or until there are no lumps. Do not over beat.
  3. Divide mixture into prepared patty cases.
  4. Put into oven and cooked for about 20-25 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.

Low Key Lighting Technique

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Low-key lighting is a style of lighting for photography, film or television. It is a necessary element in creating a chiaroscuro effect. Traditional photographic lighting, three-point lighting uses a key light, a fill light, and a back light for illumination. Low-key lighting often uses only one key light, optionally controlled with a fill light or a simple reflector. It is a necessary element in creating a chiaroscuro effect. Traditional photographic lighting, three-point lighting uses a key light, a fill light, and a back light for illumination. Low-key lighting often uses only one key light, optionally controlled with a fill light or a simple reflector.

Low key light accentuates the contours of an object by throwing areas into shade while a fill light or reflector may illuminate the shadow areas to control contrast. The relative strength of key-to-fill, known as the lighting ratio, can be measured using a light meter. Low key lighting has a higher lighting ratio, e.g. 8:1, than high-key lighting, which can approach 1:1.  (Source : Wikipedia)

Being interested with this kind of photography technique, i learn how to make a photo with dramatic mood. Low key refers to a style of photography that utilizes predominantly dark tones to create a dramatic looking image. Some people call it moody light as well. For low key shots, the camera settings can actually vary quite widely. The trick is to minimize the light entering the camera while not making everything too dark.

Camera Nikon D90
Exposure 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture f/2.0
Focal Length 50 mm
Focal Length 50.4 mm
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash No Flash

Here we see a nice solid black background and one primary light source. I used available light from left side of image. From the Flickr properties we can see that the exposure is at 1/250 sec, the aperture is f/2.0 and the ISO is at 100. Normally an ISO that low would produce an image that’s too dark under anything but decently bright conditions but here dark is exactly what the photographer wanted.

The bonus of shooting at ISO 100 is that the image quality stays high and void of color noise, which has a tendency to really stand out against a black background. Let’s take a look at one more image and see if we spot any similarities.

Camera Nikon D90
Exposure 0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture f/3.2
Focal Length 50 mm
Focal Length 50.4 mm
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash No Flash

As you can see, even though this image is brighter, it was actually shot at 1/320 sec, significantly faster than the previous image. Although the aperture is letting in less light at f/3.2, the ISO is the same and it looks like there’s more available light in the scene. The extra light enables the photographer to shoot at a faster shutter speed while still pulling in plenty of detail.

The primary takeaway from these two images is to try your best to keep your ISO around 100-200 to keep the image both dark and noise-free. You’ll have to then play with your exposure and aperture to achieve the desired effect for your particular lighting setup.


Chocolate Pudding

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I really love to make this kind of pudding. My boys love it too. Very simple but yummy mummy 🙂 It was a last bite left when i took those photos.

Ingredients:

1 pack of white agar-agar (available at Asian groceries)

200 gr dark cooking chocolate

1/2 cup of sugar

800 ml water

Vla ingredients:

500 ml milk

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 tbs corn flour (mixed with a bit of milk)

1/2 cup of sugar

Method:

  1. Boil water in a pan while melted the chocolate in a microwave for about 1 minutes.
  2. Pour agar-agar and sugar, bring to boil again.
  3. Pour the chocolate into the pan and stir until all mixed well.
  4. Pour it into pudding pan. Better if you strain it while you put into the pudding pan.
  5. Put in the fridge until set.
  6. To make Vla : put all the ingredients into pan (except corn flour), when it boiled then low the heat and put the corn flour into the pan. Stir it fast until all mixed well and becoming lumpy.