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01 Oct My favourite places to shop in Ubud

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From unique boutiques to covetable keepsakes and handcrafted creations, Ubud has treasures aplenty. Here are just some of my personal favourite places to shop in the local area. Blue Stone Botanicals in Ubud offers a glorious range of soaps, essential oils, balms and burners. You can...

16 Sep 5 must have Indonesian Condiments

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Sambals are Indonesia’s essential condiments. Not a meal goes by in our house without a sambal being served alongside. Sambals come in all shapes and sizes, cooked in all sorts of ways and they vary from island to island. Some of these are also sold...

15 Sep RECIPE OF THE WEEK | Sambal tomat

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If you only make one dish from this cookbook, let this be the one! Tomato sambal can be used to accompany a thousand dishes from Indonesia to the Mediterranean. Try it with eggs in any shape or size, grilled fat sausages, fish or any meat, roasted eggplant, tofu or tempeh – not to mention stirred into risotto or homemade mayonnaise or basted over barbecued prawns. It keeps for weeks in the refrigerator and will turn the dullest meal into a masterpiece. Sambal-tomat-

19 Jul Long-table Dinners | July 2013

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What a lovely evening. Our first long table dinner for the season. The atmosphere was glowing in that glorious Balinese candle-lit way. Wines were poured, food was served and conversation flowed. And everything was delicious! The menu, many of my favourites; prawns and coconut in banana leaves, braised chicken with...

04 May Long-table dinners at Honeymoon Guesthouse

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It's on again! My long-table dinners at home celebrating some of my favourite Balinese food will be held during the month of July. Recipes from my cookbook, Bali:The Food of My Island Home, will be featured, made fresh from my own kitchen, using organic local...

16 Apr Pecel Madiun in Surabaya

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Congratulations Surabaya. I have just returned from a long weekend from this bustling centre of commerce in East Java. I am impressed with the clean streets and rivers and the overall tidiness, thanks to Tri Rismaharini, Surabaya’s first female mayor, who is running Indonesia’s second...

02 Apr Perth Writers Festival : Andrea Hirata in conversation with Janet DeNeefe

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Andrea Hirata: The Rainbow Troops source : ABC Australia | http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2013/04/02/3724829.htm Indonesian writer Andrea Hirata has had spectacular success with his debut novel, The Rainbow Troops, selling 5 million copies in Indonesia alone. But he’s a modest man, pointing out that the population of Indonesia is 247 million. Born on the island of...

09 Mar The Romance of Rendang

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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="325"] Janet DeNeefe rendang version | Photo by Mark Roper[/caption] You would think I would be tired of eating Rendang by now. Only last month I made a long-awaited pilgrimage to Padang and Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, the revered home of Rendang, to savour...

27 Dec Gourmand World Cookbook Awards

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“THE BEST IN THE WORLD 2012” | COOKBOOKS SHORTLIST – THE FINALISTS Title of the Book: Bali.The Food of my Island Home CONGRATULATIONS Bali: The Food of My Island Home written by Janet DeNeefe nominated for category C08-Best Asian Cuisine Book of the Gourmand World CookBook Awards for “Best in the World” 2012. http://www.cookbookfair.com/index.php/component/k2/item/51-cookbooks-finalists-2012...

22 Nov A way with words

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One hundred and twenty authors will appear this year including singer and writer Nick Cave, expatriate Australian writer John Pilger and former East Timor president José Ramos Horta. The festival is the brainwave of Australian Janet de Neefe and has attracted many outstanding writers over the...