Padangsalade de nieuwe Indische keuken

Padang salad for a Summer day

This dish is inspired by a salad from the Island of Sumatra with a mediterranean heritage. A proper meal named after the city of Padang with shrimp crackers of the city of Palembang. It’s fresh and varied and delicious voor a sunny day. Easy to prepare. The Krupuk Palembang is available at better Asian grocery…

Pandan Cake Pops

The Indo Dutch cuisine knows a lot of sweet delights: from cakes, puddings, steamed-, baked- and deep-fried pastries. One of the most well known cakes is the Pandan Cake  (recipe in my 1st Dutch book) – which is also called a Chiffon cake, a light and fluffy cake with subtle, gentle, fragrant flavours of Pandan, from…

Oma Keasberry in de NRC

Oma (Grandma) Keasberry in the news

Nice to see Grandma in the Dutch news again. Reference is made to her recipes in the article of the NRC by Janneke Vreugdenhil. This time when re-issued the “Great Indonesian cookbook by Beb Vuyck.” Grandma Keasberry may well not have written as many books as Aunty Beb, but it is mentioned often and still…