Introduce-myself: I cook, I am happy!!

Dear SteemFoods community member, I am happy to meet you again in this introduction post as a part of the contest that is organized by @alikoc07. This contest can be organized with full support from @steemcurator01 and @steemitblog. Thanks a lot for their endless supports for the growth of this community.

What I believe is healthy foods will bring health to our body and mind. What my father told me was "the way you cook is the way you love". I don't really understand that philosophy, but at least what I can tell you the way I understand this is "When you love someone you want to cook the best food you have ever made".

Actually, I have introduced myself last week in my previous post although it wasn't for this contest. Ok, I tell you a bit more about myself

Click the image to go to my original related post

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Who am I?

My real name is Nailul Autar but many friends of mine call me differently, I have a few different nicknames depend on where they come from. Most of my friends from Aceh call me Roy, and most of my friends in Bali and South Sulawesi call me El. I am 42 years old on the last July 16th. Recently, I work for a humanitarian organization as a volunteer after receiving termination latter, in other words, I can say that; I have no job for the meanwhile.

How do I know SteemFoods?

I live in Tanjong Punti, the remote village in Tanah Jambo Aye sub regency and North Aceh Regency, Aceh-Indonesia. I started to blog on steem/steem in February 2018, I knew this platform from my close friend @radjasalman, he told me to make an account on the crypto platform since 2017, but somehow I didn't, which I regret it now.

I am a jungle explore, and I am organizing an expedition in 2021 with my team, to start new research with a couple of scientists from Bristol University England. The initial plan of the expedition is set for 35 days. It is a long path to make a biodiversity record from East Aceh crossing the peak of 7 mountains to the Gayo Luwes at the central region of Aceh. I join this incredible community from Indonesia as I always make #indonesia among my eight tags.

Coincidently, I searched about the food community when I return to this platform after borrowing the laptop from my brother-in-law and finally I found this incredible SteemFoods, without any hesitation, I subscribed to this community. I have participated in this community and I feel this community as a great foodies home base. I started to tell other friends to join and make some great achievements. Finally, I became a friend of @alikoc07 and started to think about how to make this community stronger.

What do I know about cooking

I started to learn how to cook since I was 12 years old. I help my mom to cook for 12-15 people and made some improvement for her original recipes. Although I did not realize that I love to cook, but I enjoyed the cooking time. My mom always tell me how to combine the seasoning and how much I need to add, and many other things, before starting my real ability. The most difficult thing to cook is rice, because I need to cook it traditionally at that time, I need to know how much heat and how many wooden fuel need to be added. But, then my father told me many other rice cooking techniques, including cooking rice in a coconut (have you tried it yet). I started to make my own cooking recipes at 14 years old. I made my first steam fish wrapped in the clay with seasoning and extra garlic, it was awesome for me but no one was willing to try. At my seventeen years old, I had worked in a small local restaurant to cook rice in the large pot (Approximately 17 kg rice in one go). Nowadays, I can handle to cook for 300 hundreds people alone. If you want to see my cooking ability you can visit my old post here. If you want to see my jungle cook you can also see here

Click the image to go to my original related post, and look at original recipe I used that for cooking

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My favorite food is "Kuah Pliek U", and "Rendang" I can make it too

Kuah Pliek U is a traditional Aceh vegetable heavy soup made from mixing various vegetable such as cassava leaves, green long peas, papaya bud, moringa, bamboo shot, and many others, and cook in coconut milk mix with the extract fermented coconut. I have no original picture to show you. My other favorite food is rendang, "Rendang" is not originally from Aceh, but from West Sumatera. I learned it when I lived there for several months. My kids love it so much, that is why I made it sometimes at home for them. As Acehnese, my most preferable food is Kuah Pliek U, that is the original one from Aceh and extremely famous among the villagers in whole Aceh.

Click the image to go to my original post and find the original recipe

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As I said, Kuah Pliek U is a mood booster, anytime my mom make it at home, I will definitely enjoy the time of helping, of course I can cook it, but you know.....our mom cooking taste will always remain as the best one in the world. It is something like strong magic that will boost my mood when I eat it. No mater how much similar the recipe is, but the taste of my mom will always be the best. I know you feel the same way, when you return old home and come to the kitchen, or when you miss them you start to cook your childhood favorite food, and visualizing your mom is making it, just like I do!.

Ok, that is about me, I love to read about you to know each other better and better, lets make this community as a big family home that we will miss anytime we are away.

El-Nailul

Thank you very much for reading my post and supports you give. I will dedicate the payout of this post to strengthen the steem platform and support the community, the bigger payout I have the bigger support the community gets. Hereby I encourage you to support this contest prize as much as you can, it is to attract more participants

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Terima kasih kepada @steemcurator01, @steemitblog, @alikoc07, @anroja, @steemcurtor08, @inwi ,@ernaerningsih, @radjasalman, @muzack1, @nazarul, @steemitfoods, @steem-indonesia, @puncakbukit, dan komunitas Asia tenggara @steem.sea, serta kurator komunitas yang baru lahir @steemseacurator, atas semua dukungan dan persahabatan yang hangat

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Regards

El-Nailul

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