RE: Ingredient list of spices and sauces I often use to cook at home.
You gave a very nice overview for these different spices. I like that you have found the pictures and different indonesian and english names of the products which may be very useful.
Would you have come to Europe years ago, when there was no internet and so you maybe had no chance to get the spices here? I mean, could you live without the "taste of your home" (if I may call it like this)?
I know that it's a hypothetic question because without internet, you probably hadn't found your husband and I assume that it was more complicated in general to organize a visit. ;-)
Do you cook also "non asiatic" at home? In general, I like the taste of asiatic food very much (not everything but many dishes - at least the taste that I know from Germany. I know that it is not necessarily "authentic"). But I don't want to eat it every day, because I like many other dishes too and I don't want to become tired of the yummy recipes. :-)
Well @thepe , even without internet, there have always been books, right?
So, if I really want to learn cooking, I still could buy recipe books anyway, it's just a bit less convenient compares to internet. :-D
Because internet could help you sorting out things that is not so interesting for us and could provide more variations from one particular dish which came out of the chef's creativity.
Even today I still have few recipe books, although I rarely look at it now. :)
By the way, yes, I cook non asiatic dishes too sometimes. Italian dishes are the most frequent one since it's simple, tasty and rather common here so that one could easily find the ingredients needed for the dishes. I make spanish cuisine too sometimes.
But to be honest, I cook very rarely german dishes, because I don't really like it. It's too rich with meat or sausages, and not so savoury.
I don't really like "Schnitzel", "Krüstenbraten", "Schweinhaxe" or such things... look, we're only 2 adults at home. We just couldn't finish such a big meat.
So if I am ever craving for that food, I'd tend to just buy it. :-D
I don't know if it's typical german foods, but "Käseüberbacken","Kartoffelauflauf" , "Spargel mit Hollandaise Söße", "gefüllte Paprika"... I cook those dishes sometimes, although not really often.
Hmm...talking about this... it seems that jaki01 has a request of the last mentioned dish and I haven't fulfilled it yet. I kept forgetting that LOL
Salad is a western dish which is definitely the most frequent served in my house.
After our vacation in Kreta few years ago, I have brought back original spices for their specialities, so I have often cooked Kreta cuisine at that time, but now the spices are all used, so I can't do it anymore.
I don't know where I could buy greek spices here in Saarbrücken. :-D