Hello Jakarta. And hello blog!

JKT,  Feb 3 2012.

I've been so idle in here that I feel highly guilty about this!

10 months have passed since I last posted an entry to this recipe/simple cooking blog. Things have certainly changed a lot ever since I graduated from Uni, said goodbye to my second one by two kitchen and finally came back home to JKT. While abroad, you are forced to live independently without the comfort of a mom cooking your food and some maids dusting off your closet and your driver picking you up from work. But I love all of those routines. I love taking care of myself, cooking several times a day and experimenting with my independent daily life. But times are a-changing, Dylan said, and I really thought that it was the most perfect time to leave. I left my job offers in Britain, left a dream to work in Shanghai, left an inkling to do a gap year or perhaps work in Singapore, and came back home to chase a dream, a dream that was fabricated from my experience of having lived in two halves of the world - in China and in the UK.

My last one by two kitchen scene - don't get me wrong I'm no alcoholic

So well, in June 2011 I came back to Jakarta for a month to do a one-month observation of whether I wanted to stay put in Jakarta. I think I have decided even from ages ago that I was going to stay in here after I graduate for the sake of chasing the dream! So when I went back to the UK for the last time as a student to graduate, I packed up all my stuffs and headed back home for good.

And here I am!

I still cook a bunch of things. In the past year I have been a vegetarian, although not a strict one yet. Precisely like what one guy wrote in his testimonial of being a veggie, I found that leaving meat and seafood actually led me to finding many new ingredients that I have never even heard before! It definitely did stir up my creativity and curiosity, so I guess from now on my blog would leave meat and seafood on the shelves. So bring on those exotic finds, funny veggies, and just about anything vegetarian.

Hello the Vegetarian one by two kitchen blog!

In the coming days I hope to post some recipes. Here is what I've been perfecting once in a while during my busy-ness: aglio olio pasta, Bailey's Pudding, vegetarian cassava noodle, as well as the delectable chocolate mochi!

Still alive, right? :)

LOVE. the one by two kitchen.