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Selamat Jalan, mas Iqbal Rais..

08:35:00

Tidak sampai 2 minggu dari saya menulis post ini, kemarin malam beliau kembali di sisiNya. 
Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi roji'un. 
Hanya kepada Engkau seluruh kepunyaanMu kembali ya Rabb..  


Setelah perpisahan ini, semoga kami yang ditinggalkan kuat melanjutkan perjalanan. 
Amin. 

cooking

A Sweet Fever

10:28:00

Just like a fever, it's been 3 weeks in a row, am keep baking this type of cake: Chiffon Cake. Seven pans in 3 weeks, in a type of cake, quite a record, isn't it? I've tried Greentea, Banana, Vanilla and perhaps many flavors later. It's easily became our favorite because of the particular texture when you tasted, it's really soft, a texture that everybody loved. 

 The first trial went by green tea flavor, I inspired by Happy Home Baking blog post, where she made the cake beautifully. She took the recipe from Okashi Treats: Sweet Treats Made With Love by Keiko Ishida. I thought the recipe quite famous, because I've read mbak Wati from http://wati-cookery.blogspot.com/ already made it too. I copied the recipe below, for 7" pan. I personally doubled the ingredients, because the pan which my mother gave me was 10".


Green Tea Chiffon Cake

Ingredients:
(makes one 7" cake)

3 egg yolks (use large eggs)
10g caster sugar
35g vegetable oil (I used canola oil)
50g fresh milk (original recipe calls for water)
45g cake flour
6g matcha green tea powder

3 egg whites (use large eggs)
45g caster sugar
6g corn flour

Method:
  • Place egg yolks in a mixing bowl. With a manual hand whisk, whisk the yolks a little. Add in sugar and whisk to combine. Add in vegetable oil gradually, whisk to combine. Add the fresh milk, whisk to combine. Sieve over the flour and matcha powder, whisk till the flour is fully incorporated. Do not over mix. Set aside.
  • Mix the 45g caster sugar with the corn flour.
  • In a clean, dry mixing bowl, beat egg whites with a handheld electric mixer on low speed until mixture becomes frothy and foamy. Add half of the sugar and corn flour mixture and turn to high speed and beat the mixture. Continue to add in the remaining sugar mixture and beat until the egg whites reaches the soft peak stage.The soft peak stage is reached when the peaks of the whites curl over and droop slightly. The egg whites should appear smooth and glossy. (Do not over beat the whites still stiff, it is better to beat the whites still soft peaks for easy folding with the yolk batter.)
  • Add the beaten egg whites into the egg yolk batter in 3 separate additions, each time folding gently with a spatula until just blended.
  • Pour batter into a 7" chiffon tube pan(do not grease the pan). Tap the pan lightly on a table top to get rid of any trapped air bubbles in the batter.
  • Bake in pre-heated oven at 180 degC for 30 mins, or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean, when lightly pressed the cake will spring back. Invert the pan immediately and let cool completely before unmould. To remove the cake from the pan, run a thin-bladed knife around the inside of the pan and the center core. Release the cake and run the knife along the base of the pan to remove the cake.
Green Tea Chiffon Cake. =9

For the second trial and later, I choose to use cream of tartar, because I love how it could constructed the cake perfectly. From all baking, my favorite goes to banana chiffon cake. I keep using recipe from Happy Home Baking, you could check it here. Over-ripe bananas give sweet flavor and nice aroma. And it gives us happy feeling too!  =D

How the cake does anti-gravity yoga. Hehe.

friends

My Hair, My Shares

08:42:00

Last Sunday been a long way in journey to me & hubby. We travelled 90kms in total, went from Sidoarjo - Gresik - Surabaya - Sidoarjo. Attended the happy moment of Tabitha's wedding in Gresik, unfortunately had to leave immediately because my shoes are broken. =(

Try to keep survived because we have next destination in Surabaya: Shave for Hope! Yeaaayyy... It has been a waiting for me to join the event since the first time I knew about the concept. For everyone who hasn't informed about Shave for Hope, I'll quote a bit explanation from their official website:
Shave for Hope is the first and biggest charity event done through hair-shaving act in Indonesia. Everyone who participated has one exact purpose, to help and support childhood cancer. It is hoped that this event will raise both people’s awareness as well as highly valued funds.



It's not a big number, a hundred thousand rupiahs/person, for a cancer treatment, but how the event could bring more than just money. It brings awareness, empathy, and a particular happy feeling of giving to another. I, personally, start having a concern to cancer since my senior in extracurricular organization, Sinematografi Airlangga, got leukimia and need apheresis donor. Apheresis donor is a special blood donation because our blood will be separated in a particular machine and only the special part of the blood taken. I have the same blood type and for several time when he needed I can't give it because my period, out of town, etc. I feel regretted and sad somehow, for not having the opportunity to help further. 

My senior who got leukimia is Iqbal Rais, the director of Tarix Jabrix, Si Jago Merah, Senggol Bacok, Radio Galau FM, and many more. Yes, he is. Probably you have already watched his movie in theatre and doesn't know his struggle stories behind it. He is one of a legend in Sinematografi UA, because he took a very brave step into a movie industries. As a junior, he ever taught me on movie things. And I still remembered, when his first movie had a promo tour, I came. The member of Changcuter band did free giveaway for several viewers, they gave a pin from metal with a logo of Tarix Jabrix in it. I was late for few seconds and all of them already taken. Perhaps I look so pitiful, therefore mas Iqbal took a pin from his cap and gave it to me. For years, I always use the pin. Now I just thought, when you want to give back to people who nice to you, it doesn't only take a goodwill, but an opportunity too. How hard you try, when the time and space do not allowed you then it won't happen. 

Do everything that you have to, you want to, and what will make you regret for not doing so, NOW. Don't let any part of universe hold you back. 

me and Iqbal Rais, Tarix Jabrix promo tour, 2008

 Notes: Yesterday, September 22nd, 2013, God took all of his suffering & pain. May he rest in peace, dear respectful senior. T_T