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Category: Vegetarian

Vegetarian food has its own niche but growing market. It is no longer for those of you who pity the animals. You will certainly find one in a degustation menu.

  • Baked Potatoes with Parmesan and Cheddar

    Baked Potatoes with Parmesan and Cheddar

    One day, a friend of mine shared several images on his facebook page. One of the images shared captured my attention and suddenly I had the urge to try making them!  It is baked potatoes with parmesan and cheddar.

    Before long, I bought all of the ingredients (the ones I haven’t got in the fridge/pantry) needed to make the baked potatoes and we are ready to go!

    There were quite a bit of items to prepare, but the cooking itself was quite fast and painless.

     

    What do we need to make Baked Potatoes with Parmesan and Cheddar?

    1. Australian Brushed Potatoes
    2. Parmesan Cheese – the one that came as a block of cheese
    3. Cheddar Cheese – also the one that came as a block of cheese. In the picture, you will see different cheddar, but you can use the normal cheddar cheese.
    4. Sour Cream
    5. Spring Onion
    6. Salt and Pepper

    All of the ingredients above can be found quite easily in your local supermarket. I did not put any measurements in the list of ingredients as you could freely use as much or as little of them as you want!

    Ingredients for Baked Potatoes with Parmesan and Cheddar

     

    The Preparation for Baked Potatoes with Parmesan and Cheddar

    1. When you bought the same potatoes as mine, you would want to clean them up off any soils on their skin.
    2. Put them in a cooking pot, but make sure they are immersed in water and add some salt as needed.
    3. Boil them in high heat. I add six minutes AFTER the water boiled in the pot before taking the potatoes out.
    4. Chop Onion Spring, as needed
    5. Sliced parmesan cheese thinly. In the picture I did not cut it thin enough and it didn’t look nice when slipped into the potatoes.
    6. Cut the potato into several sections (the more the better), but not deep enough so that you keep the whole figure intact.
    7. Slipped the parmesan slices into each compartment (i.e. the sliced part) of the potato.
    8. Grate the cheddar cheese on top of the potato. 

    Boil the potatoes Garnish and Cheese Preparation

     

    How do we make Baked Potatoes with Parmesan and Cheddar?

    1. Pre-heat oven to 200o The term pre-heat means you leave it on for around 5 minutes in that temperature before you put in your potato.
    2. Put the potato on the baking tray. Make sure you cover the baking tray with aluminium foil.
    3. Put the baking tray into the oven for around 15 minutes.
    4. After taking it out of the oven, add a blob of sour cream and garnish with spring onion.

    Baked Potatoes with Parmesan and Cheddar

    Baked Potatoes with Parmesan and Cheddar

     

    A little tips to make your perfect Baked Potatoes with Parmesan and Cheddar

    1. You don’t need to peel the skin off the potatoes.
    2. Boil it a little bit longer if you want to make a softer potato.
    3. Don’t grate the cheddar cheese beforehand. They are quite sticky! 

     

    Final presentation for Baked Potatoes with Parmesan and Cheddar 

    Baked Potatoes with Parmesan and Cheddar

  • Loving Hut

    Loving Hut

    Rating:


    7 / 10
    Taste: 7/10
    Price: <$12 main course
    Place: 7/10

    Review:

    This week, we are reviewing one of the rarest restaurants in Surabaya, Vegan Cuisine. Loving Hut is the newest restaurant that I discovered out of curiosity. The restaurant is filled with plenty of vegan celebrity pictures and some of its campaigns against meat – which was a bit of a turn-off for me.




    Deep fried wonton was our first dish of the day. Six golden brown wontons were laid on a bed of lettuce with a simple sauce of chili and tomato. I was pretty pleased with the likeness to the more meaty wontons. With almost similar components the Fried Enoki was served. The mushrooms were wrapped in seaweed and coated in thin savoury crisp. It was the perfect combination of crispy coating and soft mushroom.

    From the vegetable lines, we also ordered Chili Eggplant and Asparagus Soup. Beside the sauce, the eggplants were pretty spot-on. The Asparagus soup was also pretty average. They also served mixed rice dishes, like this Seven Seas Delight with Rice. It has a combination of mock-meat katsu and green veggies. I reckon this would be enough for a simple dinner or big lunch.

    For the next one, we ordered Fancy Nut Satay. Although, it was supposed to be fancy nut, I could only taste peanut (which was not considered ‘fancy nut’).  This factor aside, the satay was great. It was also grilled like the real deal! Tamie Capcay was our next one and it looked like a massive bird’s nest. It was very thin noodles, deep-fried and served with Chinese-style stir-fried vegetables and seafood.

    We also ordered Len Phan Deluxe, I ordered because it was the most expensive dish in the restaurant. When it arrived, we were pleased not only for its size, but also the variety of it. There were six components if you look at the picture. On the right hand corner was what looked like grilled chicken, (then moving clockwise there were) chicken katsu with sweet chili, seafood stick with sauce, calamari and mayonnaise, and bitterballen (meatballs) with chili sauce. Len Phan Deluxe was arguably the most comprehensive and best dish of the night. All of its elements were wonderful.



    The final verdict: If no one tells you that it’s vegetarian, you would think that it’s the real deal, especially Len Phan Deluxe! The overall taste for Loving Hut was nice but nothing really mind-blowing.

    Did you know?

    Loving hut apparently is also a chain restaurant. Its business model is pretty unique. Each of the restaurants has its own menu, completely different menu. I find it pretty strange since the basic foundation of a chain restaurant is uniformity of menu. Therefore, this review is only relevant to the one in Surabaya, Indonesia.

    I know one more restaurant that used to have better vegetarian dishes in Sydney but unfortunately that restaurant was brought down to receivership.

     

    Details:


    Jalan Sumbawa 37, Surabaya

    +62 31 5012990

    http://www.lovinghut.co.id/