Tag Archive: Balinese food
Hello from the Dark Side of the Earth
June 30, 2012This may be hard to swallow, but there’s a bite in the air in Bali these days, even at sea level (where I am writing now), but especially if you dine at sunset on a Read more…
Coconut Burns
November 22, 2011You know you’ve arrived in the world of food when you’re getting paid to eat. The phone call came late on a Monday night. One of the judges for a national cooking contest held in Read more…
Foraging Ferns
October 18, 2011I’m told my posts make some readers laugh, but this is not so funny. My friend, Rio Helmi, a gifted photographer who has documented close to the entire experience of Balinese life, once captured a Read more…
Mother-in-Law Fried Bananas
August 12, 2011I’ve been trying all week to post the recipe for My Mother-in-Law’s Pisang Goreng (a.k.a Best Fried Bananas Anywhere), and each morning when I’m all gung ho to make them I’ve been stymied…. by the bananas. Rule Read more…
My First Night in Bali
July 17, 2011If you had told me twenty-six years ago that I’d be in Ubud, today, eating black rice pudding off my own menu… No. Not a chance. Yet here I am, slinging the stuff I first Read more…
Holy Basil Mackerel
April 22, 2011Here’s when I knew I’d crossed the Asian Rubicon. Faced with the breakfast choice of my mother’s recipe for cinnamon-y French toast or crisp fried mackerel with sweet potato rice, I opted for the oily Read more…
Honey Thieves and Satay Sellers
April 7, 2011So how was your Sunday? The only slightly unusual thing about mine was how not unusual it was… by Bali standards. You know, praying in a cardinal Hindu temple, a visit from a Brahminic motorcross Read more…
Green Pancake Blues
March 4, 2011So about Kue Dadar, those rolled pancakes I keep meaning to tell you about… Here’s me, on a (yet-again) hot day in Bali’s capital, negotiating a deal on fixtures for my son’s new bathroom when Read more…
Making Lawar
December 8, 2010It’s Galungan today, Bali’s equivalence-in-importance to Christmas in the West, and my husband Gusky’s ancestors are paying a visit to our family temple, the one in the northeast corner of our property, nearest Mount Agung. Read more…