East Meets West

10 October, 2006

Why not? Well, it's not about our personal distinction I am talking about. But you can say frankly that we are an east-meets-west couple. When it comes to food, we have something common not to mention the authentic meals we grew up with. Of course it doesn't mean my hubby would eat all kind of foods I like to eat, for example: a spicy-salty-dried fish (ikan teri) which he calls a stinky fish, any hot pepper spicy cooking, any kind of asian noodle, etc. Sometimes it's hard for me to figure out what I was going to cook when I wanted to eat my Indonesian dishes so badly, meanwhile my husband couldn't eat it and I didn't feel like to cooking two different dishes at the same time. One day, I came up with the idea to cook something that I could combine or adjust the ingredients therefore we both can share the same dishes together without ruining the whole original taste. At that day I was dying to eat Indonesian noodle (bakmi goreng) but my hubby doesn't like any kind of noodle. So, what I did is I replaced noodle with thin spaghetti and asian meatball (bakso) with bratwurst sausages. I cooked this pasta just like the way I use to cook my authentic noodle cooking. It turned out really good and we both liked it.