Good Friday

We invited a few of our friends and their children for lunch yesterday and it turned out to be a great day!  We had potluck lunch, with the main course not coming from the host, but brought in by the guests.  The kids had fun playing in the pool and the moms had a great time catching up and chatting :-).  It was a fun-filled day, with great food and wondeful friends.  Thanks, Refine Lubis and Dyah Sari for coming over!  Looking forward to our next gathering in June!

Photos courtesy of Refine Lubis: http://refinelubis.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/good-friday-and-good-friends/



Our dining table fits 6 people comfortably, but additional adjustments can be made when we have more guests.  Thankfully kids eats in a hurry, so we managed to squeeze all 7 of us in.  The rice dish is called nasi uduk, an Indonesian rice dish cooked with coconut milk and bay leaves.  We would eat it together with fried chicken and fried anchovies with peanuts.  You can also have thinly-sliced omellette (not shown) and corn patties called perkedel jagung (top) as sides.

Nasi uduk is also usually served with lalap (assortment of green vegetables), eaten with sambal (chili paste) shown in the bottom photo.

These are the condiments (clockwise from top left): abon sapi (beef floss) and teri kacang (fried anchovies with peanuts)  courtesy of Refine Lubis, and sambal (chili paste) courtesy of Dyah Sari. 

I made a fruit basket with the all-time favorite banana and had longans (known as 'lengkeng' in Indonesian), apples and red grapes.  The inspiration from the arrangement of the fruit basket is from my grandaunt.  We also included some strawberries which Dyah brought in later.



I wanted to do something unique with the plain Ikea paper napkins we had, so I went on this website and got my inspiration for this Crown Napkin Fold: bumblebeelinens.com/napkinFolding.php

These are 'klepon', round little desserts made of rice flour, coconut milk with grated coconut on top.  The texture is very similar to the Japanese mochi.  When you bite in to it, you will get a burst of a lovely thick, sweet brown Javanese sugar (called gula Jawa).  The color of klepon is supposedly green, but this one is made orange by Dyah.

This is another dessert called bubur sumsum.  Again, made with rice flour and coconut milk, but the gula Jawa is made into caramel and drizzled on top of it.  Really yummy and taste wonderful when eaten warm.