Homemade Pumpkin Soup

The spirit of Halloween has just teased me that I was so crazy for pumpkin soup...and surely homemade!
It was easy indeed, but this time I want to make it with less seasoning yet flavorful, just to make it simple, easy and quick.

Boil pumpkin with garlic, blend with non-MSG seasoning. Saute the mixture with coconut oil, chopped onions, served with dried parsley and pumpkin seed.

What more do I need...

Homemade Vegan Noodle with Roasted Pumpkin and Mushrooms

Vegan Noodle with Roasted Pumpkin and Mushrooms

Last week I visited Organiklub store in Tebet, found vegan noodle, made of sago or sagu. The things that attracts me, as it was my first time knowing such noodle made from sago, and it was also stated low carb, gluten free, no preservative, no bleaching..and it's a local product :)

I give it a try for my lunch then. 

The noodle needs to be soaked about 10 minutes before I cook with the rest of the ingredients: my roasted garlic and curry pumpkin, also mushrooms. I only use coconut oil, liquid aminos, garlic and non-MSG seasoning powder. Voila! This pale noodle turns out delish! Quick, simple, and yummy. 

Homemade Vegan Brownies

Vegan Brownies

125 gr canola butter

2 tbsp raw cacao powder

3 tbsp oatmeal

3 tbsp almond meals or almond pulp

1 tbsp ground golden flax seeds

1 tbsp psyllium husk

2 tbsp raw cacao nibs

3 tbsp organic coconut sugar

50 gr raw organic almond chunks

Melt canola butter with cacao powder medium heat, mix with the rest ingredients, bake 15' - 20' in preheat oven 170°C or 350°F.

Top layer: melt canola butter, raw cacao powder, stevia or coconut sugar. Spread onto the cold brownies, sprinkle with raw cacao nibs.

#veganbrownies #brownies 

There's always the first time..

Sorong and Waisai. My first trip to Papua. After few years of preventing myself from being assigned to East area, finally I really could not reject at all. I decided to go, at last.
Most people told me am a weird. But it's me, not kinda a person who's keen on travelling, but then something really made me so. Funny indeed.
It was beautiful, I must admit, but the heat sometimes prevents me from enjoying things surround me..
The seafood was always fresh, and delectable.
And at least got my shot here, with such memorable sunset capture that reminds me of life.

Life is like the sun.

Sometimes it's like sunrise, or sunset.

Be grateful, and enjoy every moment.

Throwback

A throwback moment is not about being unable to move on.
It is a moment to remember how lucky I was and I am.
I realize many good things happened for the last decade, but this post is just to highlight the rainbow I got, just right after the storm.
It was in the same month two years ago I visited Oslo, Norway.
My solo travel during the best weather (thou people said it wasn't the best moment, but I loved the color and weather during autumn). 
I loved every beautiful places I visited during in Oslo, some places in the Bygdøy area, Vigelandsparken, some restaurants along Aker Brygge, even the flea market attracted me.
Walking down in every part of the road in Oslo during autumn whereas some areas and landscape were covered in almost golden colors, while breathing fresh and crisp air, under the rain, was a joy I could never picturize more with words, 'coz it will never be enough space.
As careless as I was - and might have been over-excited, I walked down the road for almost 2 hours to reach Vigeland just to see the angry boy statue (as I had planned and wished for), I stopped by for a sandwich and coffee at Cafe Vigeland, which were sooo good, resting for a while, took some pics, walked back to the hotel, on foot again, then I realized I forgot to visit the angry boy. Didn't regret that, yet it motivated me to get back to Oslo someday, and definitely always reminds me how meaningful the journey was.

Vigeland Cafe

#oslo #norway #vigeland