My favourite places to shop in Ubud
Ubud has treasures aplenty. Here are just some of my personal favourite places to shop in the local area.
5 must have Indonesian Condiments
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 bottled in Asian food stores. Kecap manis is one of […]
RECIPE OF THE WEEK | Sambal tomat
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 […]
Long-table Dinners | July 2013
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 gingers, cucumber in coconut milk, tempe in tomato sambal, Sumatran-style […]
Long-table dinners at Honeymoon Guesthouse
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 produce where possible.
Dinner will be followed by a range of luscious desserts. Every Saturday in July we will gather upstairs at Honeymoon Guesthouse, while the sun descends over Jalan Bisma, to enjoy a feast of champions. To book, please contact: reservations@casalunabali.com.
Pecel Madiun in Surabaya
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 largest city like a well-managed household. Well done! But let’s […]
Perth Writers Festival : Andrea Hirata in conversation with Janet DeNeefe
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 Gantong in east Sumatra, he did graduate […]
The Romance of Rendang
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 the glory of Indonesia’s pride and joy. I ate as much as I could, every day, until the romance almost faded. Almost. […]
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
“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
A way with words
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 years, including Kiran Desai and her mother Anita Desai, […]
