Pasta with Herbs

Pasta is everyone's favorite. I personally think that the pastas that i buy here taste better than those i buy in Indonesia. And the sice is so fine, thin, while in Indonesia they only have 1 size. This Italian food staple has gone international that even people in small town of Indonesia, they like it (yeah, people with big cities background, hehe).

Everybody knows how to make spagetti right? This one is my own recipe, tomatoes as basic (sauté with garlic), add English sauce, and the herbs that i love;

• dried oregano,
• dried chives,
• basils (not the asian ones),
• powdered fennel.

(i forgot to add thym and bay leaves, oh well...next time?) and a little bit of lemon juice and sherry inside. I did not use salt, as i added halal bacon- alike, which i found sooo salty! (i am not a big fan of these kind of things, apero meats... too salty!).

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Tiramisu au Matcha

Tiramisu is the best dessert in the world, despite all of the French's effort to be the country of desserts. A lifetime standing ovation for the Italians for making the most beautiful dessert in the whole wide world. And this is what happen when japanese and italian colide: Green Tea Tiramisu.

I used rose biscuit of Reims (a town in France), because i am not a big fan of boudoir or the french lady fingers sold in any supermarkets in general; they have white sugar spread on top, makes it doubled sweet! Using rose biscuit of Reims, it gives a value added colour to the tiramisu, and the combination of that with the good sake that Mr. Gorilla brought from his business trip to Japan, gives a new dimension of taste. A taste that i cannot describe, so you need to make it yourself.. so this dessert is a combination of french, italian, japanese? yummmm.... in my opinion, are ones of the best countries in the world (for their best culture and food, after my own country of course, hehe).

Recipe is taken from this site.

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