A birthday after Christmas!

Last 25th of December was Vic's birthday. Vic os one of the cutest boys I've ever met. We've been friends for about two years now, as we met in a forum about the tv show Skins. And yesterday, a bunch of people from the forum decided to give him a surprise!

So he came home for having lunch with me, and after lunch we met the rest of the people... and we gave him his cake!

 

 

 

 

We had a lovely time yesterday. Finally, I met some girls, like Julia or Alicia, that I wanted to meet so much. I could see again this lovely group, they're so great... all of them!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ari took a couple of pictures in wich you can see the Christmas' lights on the street... and my outfit!

 

 

 Dress - Vintage

Scarf (used as belt) - Offbrand

Boots - Aces of London

Headband with butterfly - Handmade by me!

So, how was your Christmas' day? Did you had lots of presents? I had a lovely t-shirt by Junko Mizuno, one of my favourite drawers!

Menu Plan Monday

Can't believe that Christmas is over and the new year is almost here! Since I am home this week from work (love winter break!) I am going to be trying a few new recipes this week on my hubby and family! My parents will be visiting on Wednesday and Friday (New Year's Eve) I will be with David's family. So here it goes for this week...

Monday - Hot dogs and homemade chili
Tuesday - *NEW* Meatless Loaf (from my friend Kristin) and lima beans
Wednesday - *NEW* Savory Vegetable Bread Pudding (Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker, given to me by Sarah this past week while we were in Tennessee, can't wait to dig into this!). Mom is bringing a vegetarian dish as well and a bread braid.
Thursday - *NEW* Black Bean Soup (from the same cookbook above)
Friday - With the in-laws
Sabbath - Leftovers (a day of rest!!)
Sunday - Eggs, "sausage" and pancakes (Breakfast for supper)

Extras: Museli for breakfast over the weekend
*NEW* Vegetable Stock (from Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker)

Have a great week!

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2011 Resolution

Hello, good morning Indonesia.
Its a lovely Sunday, isnt it? Even i still covered by sad because Indonesia Soccer Team lost from Malay with pretty significant point, i still enjoy my life.
Yeah, im not that happy today.
Well about soccer, i felt misunderstood with the handsball without any punishment, thats unfair! And the laser thingy. Well, i hate last night match. Not fair.
But with all sportiveness we admitting that we are lost on that match.

Well today should be a nice day if i could go to attend GLC meeting at Provoke, but unfortunately not. So sad. I know guys, you all miss me. LOL.

And here is the topic we will talk about, new year is coming so soon.
Its 27 already. Well 3 days remainings. Im shocked that i havent made any resolution yet. Its unusual. Well im totally shy to share this resolutions, but because im frontal, and crazy, i will do it! hahaha.

My wish for 2011 is a great new year and new happiness in life, everythings getting better and smarter. Amin.

My resolutions is...

• Lose weight (as always)
• Stop biting nails
• More smarter and sweeter
• fluently in english
• doing more sports
• Spend alot of times with lovely friends
• Make film again
• Writing alot
• publish a book
• study abroad
• spread a lots of cares and loves to many people
• More fashionable

That is it!
How about you guys?
And do u have any suggestion, which fashion blogs or webs i could visit?
thanks everyone.

Love,

Ketty Tressianah
xoxo

Pumpkin Ravioli with Basil Browned Butter

So I went crazy one fine day making pasta with my , and pumpkin ravioli was one of the results. This dish is inspired by Rick Stein's pumpkin ravioli with sage butter. Pumpkin has a mild sweetness to it, which when mixed up with some salty savoury parmesan, hits all the right buttons! I used basil instead because 1. I couldn't find sage at Tesco Metro, 2. My ravioli's rolled out too thick so it's kind of dense and hearty so I needed a herb that's.. lighter? and fresher than sage 3. Basil's great with roasted sweet vegetables. I topped it off with toasted pumpkin seeds for that added texture, plus I just like that you're using the whole vegetable, even though I confess I just used pumpkin seeds from my pantry.

Pumpkin Ravioli with Basil Browned Butter

serves 2

Ingredients

For the pasta dough, check out my homemade sourdough pasta post.

You'll need 1/2 of the dough from that entry. Maybe 1/3 if you roll it out thinner.

For the ravioli stuffing,

1/2 cup mashed/pureed roasted (or you can steam) pumpkin

1-2 tbsp grated parmesan

1 (med) egg yolk

pinch of sea salt, black pepper, nutmeg, dried basil

For the basil browned butter,

2 tablespoons butter

handful of basil, shredded

To garnish,

handful of pumpkin seeds, lightly toasted

few basil leaves

Method

1. Mix the stuffing ingredients

2. Place a teaspoon (don't be greedy and stuff too much) of the stuffing about every 5cm away.

3. In between each teaspoon of stuffing, wet (estimate the halfway mark) the dough with water/egg wash. Put another rectangular layer of dough over to seal (press around the stuffing). Cut with pizza cutter if you have one, or just go rustic ;) Leave to dry for 1/2 hour or so.

Please check out my homemade sourdough pasta post for a clearer picture. There are photos!

4. Cook the ravioli in gently boiling salted water, about 3-4 min.

5. While the ravioli is cooking, melt the butter in a saucepan, with the shredded basil leaves and a pinch of salt,

until it foams and browns (careful don't burn!)

6. Plate up drained pasta, pour butter sauce over, top with grated Parmesan cheese, the toasted pumpkin seeds, and garnish with the fresh basil leaves. Enjoy!

Next time, I would try rolling out my dough much thinner, (and hence try out the sage butter? I've not tried deep fried sage leaves before) but for now, I'm happy(:

This is an entry for Presto Pasta Nights hosted by Tastes of Home.

I spotted this wild car cruising through town the other day with a replica (I hope) human skull on the back dash, and wondered if it was being driven by someone who had a firm and comfortable grasp of their own identity, or if the driver in fact had no clue as to how they wanted to to express their individuality, aside from being aggressively alternative. Either way, I thought the car was great.