Healthy and yummy menu

Main menu for today : rice, squash vegetables, Pepes fish, Pepes tofu and sauce.

Dessert : Mango and ice cendol.

description for Cendol and Pepes :

Cendol is a typical Indonesian drink made from rice flour, served with shredded ice and liquid brown sugar and coconut milk. These drinks taste sweet and savory. In the area of the Sunda beverage known as cendol while in Central Java, known as ice dawet. Developing popular confidence in the Indonesian community that the term "cendol" probably comes from the word "swollen", which is found in Sundanese, Javanese and Indonesian; this refers to the sensation that is felt when the grain jendolan cendol through the middle of the mouth when drinking ice cendol.

Pepes (also called Pais in Sundanese) is an Indonesian Sundanese cooking method using banana-leaf as food wrappings. The banana-leaf package containing food is cooked on steam, in boiled water or grilled on charcoal. This technique is most commonly used to prepare fish, Pepes Ikan Emas or carp pepes is the most popular one, however another type of food products; such as seafood, meat, chicken, tofu, tempeh, oncom, mushroom or vegetables also available to be prepared in this method. The method is used in several Indonesian dishes, and also become the name of a dish prepared in this manner, for example; Pepes Ikan Emas (carp pepes), Pepes Tahu (tofu pepes), Pepes Oncom (oncom pepes), Pepes Teri (anchovy pepes), and Pepes Jamur (mushroom pepes). Pepes products are typically consumed with steamed rice.

Sambal is a chili based sauce which is normally used as a condiment. Sambals are popular in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the southern Philippines and Sri Lanka, as well as in the Netherlands and in Suriname through Indonesian influence. It is typically made from a variety of peppers, although chili peppers are the most common. It is sometimes a substitute for fresh chilis. It can be extremely spicy for the uninitiated. Some ready-made sambals are available at exotic food markets or gourmet departments in supermarkets in many countries. Sambal is a Javanese loan-word (sambel) of Indonesian and Malaysian.

uh oh..hopefully my weight does not increase after eating this.

Have a lovely Sunday all! :)

PS. after Girls night out last night, let's get back to work on thesis, but certainly after eating this all food. :)