an insight into the life of a dreamer who loves croissant, Paris, folklore, and nice things
Oh well, I can’t control myself to count down to see you dear, Indonesia. I know I still have weeks until I sit down happily in the airport lounge. And wondering those clouds, sunset from above, when I have to tuck myself with the blanket for first nine hours until I say hi to Qatar, and I wonder for your beauty while I cross countries between Middle East and South East Asia from above, for another ten hours.
Until I step down my feet on you, Indonesia :)
An impromptu shoot this late noon was another experiment of background. If you are a reader of this blog or you have read this post before (oops, I know I wrote that post in Bahasa Indonesia, okay lemme tell you :P), I used my black shirt for that ‘Pecel’ cause I couldn’t find a contrast background. It sounds funny but it is true. I used my ‘I-have-not-ironed-that-shirt’ and I think it was not bad. So, this noon, when I saw my remaining cherries from yesterday breakfast (previous post! :)) in the fridge, my mind thought about something ; let’s play with various backgrounds and, here they are :
All of those background are my shirts and a hoody. I really wish I had a real studio for food photography include props and hm, pro camera :P, the second picture was taken with an iPhone, yup, for Instagram purpose!.
I bet you guys know how I love Muesli by lingering this blog. As a super-hectic person (oh, this sounds exaggerated :P), quick-yummy-healthy breakfast is such a treasure. Days ago, when I went to buy chicken breast and other ingredients for dinner, I passed black boxes that made me stopped by. I know myself finding boxes with various Muesli kind of inside is always make me feel happy. Sadly, that day I had small money inside my wallet. I tried to manage with what I had (I always hate that!). I took one box and read what is inside. I just read and dropped it back beside another boxes that contain vary ingredients in each of them.
This sounds funny, two days ago I got small extra money from an event I did from Saturday night until half of Sunday noon. So after worked, I went back to find another ingredients for dinner (it was for making dinner to welcome my new flatmate that came from Indonesia, he’s my previous flatmate’s friend and we’ll work together here :)), I did not need to think twice to grab one box of Eat Natural, plus yogurt and fresh cherries. $18 wasn’t bad right to change my ‘I-worked-until-half-of-my-Sunday-gone’ last week. Hope you guys can imagine how this heavenly breakfast taste. A mix of sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, linseeds, toasted ryecrumbs, oats, coconut, almonds and hazelnuts, plus yogurt, strawberry, cherries, and extra almonds just made me die.
I think I found another ‘you-guys-must-try’, :)).
P.S. Are you wondering why the last picture above has different background? That was an impromptu shoot after I changed the background for my Instagram post, my flatmate helped me to snap my morning scene including my hands pose :P.
When I met with Putri at Carpentier Kitchen where is located just by behind of ORE Store last year, I didn’t take attention to what and what they have there. I just impressed a little by the vibe of their industrial look. Then, in my second time visited that dangerous fashion outlet, I took home two shirts, and this, and that.
Here, I just wanted to share some snaps from my mirroless from last year, oops!
I heard a lot of cute places in Surabaya are ‘happening’ right now. I bet myself can’t wait to visit those ‘instagrammable’ places in the late noon, looking for natural light and play with cameras (I hope I can control myself from any dangerous there :)). Oh, when I stumbled around my Instagram page to find those rucksack bag and Spanish casual summer sandals, I realised that I took those iPhone pics a year ago which means….. I’ll be home soon :P.
Nah for the title? Sounds cheesy? Pardon for that :P.
Here, I just wanted to share what I had this morning as my breakfast. I’ve been craved to have king prawns on my plate and I came out with a simple idea to cook them. What I did just boiled whole grain thin spaghetti, home-made tomato sauce from fresh tomatoes and a bit of tomato paste (for sure, it had a basic spice as well, red onion, garlic, ground white pepper and a pinch of salt). Quick grilled king prawns with O-Oil 10 second and put on top of the spaghetti (you can season it with a pinch of salt and pepper and do not forget to pour O-oil :)), as easy as that.
Oh please note, I couldn’t eat 1 kg that contains +/- six pieces of king prawns in one time. I just cooked the rest for my dinner, I chopped them and added into my stir-fried sausage and scrambled egg in oyster sauce.
On my previous post I’ve mentioned when I had two days without proper food was so hellish for me, truly. When I was in the middle of that kind ‘day-and-night’ work, my mind took a second thinking about proper food as a revenge, particularly veggies and fruits. After that day, I decided to have my first strawberry and avocado salad as my breakfast (added kiwi wasn’t my idea before yet I love to see them in my bowl :)). It was very simple salad, O-oil plus lemon was my dressing. You guys who followed me in Instagram (or if you’re reader of this blog :P), I bet you’ve seen my iPhone version before.
Here, I gather breakfasts with colors that I’d snapped from different days (because in this era, taking pictures of your food before you enjoy them is a must, lol :P). Oh I know, I know, you’ll find another shot of my Muesli here :P.
I’ll drop some of the facts from these pictures :)
> The first one is my fav, I love the color coordination. The green of the broccoli was so perfect. I drank my water before that avocado juice, why? because my fettuccine carbonara was so creamy :P
> I bought purple cabbage (picture number two) just because I loved to try them for my salad. I used it twice for my salad and ignored it after. It sounds like I bought for picture-purpose :P
> It was my first time I ate beetroot :P. I was wondering how it taste since until I took some and mesmerised with the color. Maybe I’ll try it better for fresh juice than for salad yet I did love the texture of beetroot.
> That tomato soup was too hot for breakfast. I thought it would be tastier when I added chopped Habanero pepper into it. When I was tasting my soup and found my tongue was burning, I took those pepper immediately and throw them away :P
> Strawberry and avocado such a fresh combination for salad. If you want to try them as your breakfast, you should find sweet strawberry. I had very fresh yet so sour that morning.
> I always keep my food balance. I must have fruits and veggies every week, I enjoy cakes and pastries with limit for sure. I enjoy fried food as long as it isn’t deep-fried. If I don’t have a choice to eat healthy food but junk food, I always try to have lemon in water. That’s why you always see lemon in my pictures :)
I think we should enjoy life with good food as long as it’s good for your happiness. I know you are what you eat, but by enjoying good-tasty-healthy food is happiness, amirite? :)
O-maigah. I just had a quick dinner meal and felt blessed. This week such a very, ve-ry hec-tic week. Fiuh, working for five different events at five different venues in the same day was insanely ridiculous. I went upside down (I bet I went a little bit insane, worked two days without food. So poor).
I’m sitting on my bed right now, trying to enjoy every second to say hello to June. Yeay, June means I’m getting closer to go home to Indonesia! :)), Should I start to count down? Nope, still quite far tho (yes, Zis, you’ll have bunch of works in June :|). Okay guys, hope you don’t mind for this gorg, Peony, to brighten up this blog (ssst, she is my fav flower :)). iPhone snaps here.
P.S. Oh you guys who love flowers, FYI, you can see how Soraj Prathnadi snaps simply beautiful flowers in his Instagram :). That one in B&W was white Peony, tho. I love how that version popping up among the Pinkies.
Omai, sorry guys if you think I’m a garish person, hah. Just wanted to put this photo, to let you know that my iPhone version liked by Alice Gao minutes ago. Again, sorry for being garish :P.
Alice, you are my inspiration in photography. You know that :)
P.S. If you are in Instagram, you can see iPhone pics I took inspired by Alice Gao, with #inspiredbyalicegao hashtag. Which one do you prefer guys, mirrorless above or the one in my Instagram? :P. It looks easy to arrange things and capture them, in fact, it doesn’t sound that easy, tho.
There are three reasons why I love this simply chic’ recipe for my lunch :). One is because the ingredients are fresh. Two, healthier way to cook, baking!. And the last is yes, it is easy to cook this food. You just need to put all the ingredients and bake in the oven. All you need for one serving are :
150 gr chicken fillet | 2 medium garlic cloves | 1 medium tomato | 1/4 red onion (I had big onion, if you have small ones, you can use probably 3 cloves), slices of white onion, three pcs of red pepper, 3 slices of fresh lemon, 3 coriander leaves, 2 tbs O-oil (put more if you want! :)), spices : 1 tsp chilli sauce, pinch of salt and ground black pepper.
Just put all of them on a sheet of aluminium foil, wrap neatly and bake for 25 minutes. I ate this Chic’ Lemon with basmati rice that noon. A glass of cold spring water was enough for a compliment of this spicy-fresh lunch.
Happy Friday! (I HAVE-TO enjoy my Sat and Sunday before hellish-next-week! Uh.)
Hello there! I couldn’t believe that this month is so hectic. I couldn’t even believe either, when I had to stay at home a whole day, worked for some concepts yesterday. Yes, on Sunday? Oh, whatta life.
Here, I just wanted to pop-in a bit from food pictures. I’ve lingered among my random photos inside my hard drive and found something that I thought, they are too pretty not-to-be-shared on this blog.
Sometime, I always take more attention to every details. It always mesmerise me, for every single details that God has created on each of them.
an insight into the life of a dreamer who loves croissant, Paris, folklore, and nice things
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an insight into the life of a dreamer who loves croissant, Paris, folklore, and nice things
an insight into the life of a dreamer who loves croissant, Paris, folklore, and nice things
an insight into the life of a dreamer who loves croissant, Paris, folklore, and nice things
an insight into the life of a dreamer who loves croissant, Paris, folklore, and nice things
an insight into the life of a dreamer who loves croissant, Paris, folklore, and nice things
an insight into the life of a dreamer who loves croissant, Paris, folklore, and nice things
an insight into the life of a dreamer who loves croissant, Paris, folklore, and nice things
"It's so beautifully arranged on the the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it." - Julia Child
baking makes friends.
an insight into the life of a dreamer who loves croissant, Paris, folklore, and nice things
an insight into the life of a dreamer who loves croissant, Paris, folklore, and nice things
an insight into the life of a dreamer who loves croissant, Paris, folklore, and nice things
an insight into the life of a dreamer who loves croissant, Paris, folklore, and nice things
an insight into the life of a dreamer who loves croissant, Paris, folklore, and nice things
Healthy Vegetarian Recipes.
an insight into the life of a dreamer who loves croissant, Paris, folklore, and nice things
an insight into the life of a dreamer who loves croissant, Paris, folklore, and nice things
an insight into the life of a dreamer who loves croissant, Paris, folklore, and nice things
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