Monday, March 3, 2014

Salt Maker

Besides to make food salty, salt is also often used to preserve. For example, boiled fish with salted, the fish will stop the process of decay because the microbe can not live anymore in fish. Salt in Bali are usually made in a simple way. Water sprinkled on the sand beach, then allowed bronzed in the sun for 10 hours. Then the sand was included in a special container and water, then put in the blade tetesannya tree sap. Wait again for 10 hours then at dusk and will appear white crystalline salt that smooth texture and not bitter. Not infrequently there are Japanese tourists who stopped to buy salt. Farmers salt gladly meladeninya because they buy with $ 2. Whereas in the traditional market price is only Rp 5,000. In addition to flavoring food Kusamba salt is also very good for skin health. Salt mixed with coconut oil all over his body then dilulurkan result is a clean smooth skin without black spot due to sunburn.

Banana Fruit

Banana fruit in Indonesia is the most easily obtained, he grew up with both a height ranging from 50 mtr to 1000 mtr above sea level. Plant it is also not too difficult. Sufficiently separated from the child is intuk, planting in a hole diameter of 20 cm with a distance of 2 meters. Within a year the new banana usually move has been able to bear fruit. The bunches are usually reached 6 combs, while each banana comb could consist of 20 pieces of banana. There are many types of bananas, from plantains, bananas, gold bananas, banana bananas kepok to stone. The most widely planted are plantain, because it is very good for fried bananas. Which is at least as many bananas rocks small rocks in it. Bananas are usually but can be eaten in a mature state, many also process them into food preserved, eg sale so bananas, or banana chips. Young banana sliced ​​given a little sugar and then fried. It was a tasty sweet and crunchy excellent for friends watching television.

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Traditional Flute



Flute  made ​​by bamboo in Bali. Bamboo must be thin and very long distances each other. This type of bamboo grows at an altitude of 600 meters above sea level . And in the village Kerta Payangan Bali , bamboo grows jajang well as fertility and coolness suited to its habitat . Ketut Sami , 58, a native of Kerta it has spent more than half his age to become familiar bamboo jajang , he worked as a bamboo flute maker ." At first when I was just watching a teen dance accompanied by bamboo flutes , because every day is familiar with neighbors and family who made ​​my flute transmissivity involved making also plays the flute , " said the mother of 3 children. Starting from watching dance semaradana , accompanied by melodious plaintive flute , Sami slowly follows the lineage of his grandfather who was then the temperature in the manufacture of the flute . Sami adolescents begin by choosing good material distilled . He invited his grandfather into the forest at that time was growing heavy behind the village .

Cracker Seller



Snack, crackers cheap indeed , but too salty and fanfare every bite is capable of moving the economy a lot of people . Starting from the seller of wheat , processing raw crackers , and fry until the special itinerant peddling fortune that did not get bit .Crackers made ​​from tapioca flour with a mixture of various kinds of fish , shrimp , and even recently there was also crackers spinach celery and crackers. Ridwan , 43 years has been more than 20 years of struggling with this cracker business . At first he was just crackers itinerant sellers , sometimes walking sometimes riding a bicycle ." Since year 1993 I managed to raise capital to lease a plot of land in Renon, I created a simple hut for the manufacture of various kinds of crackers , " said the man born this Lumajang .By having its own place away from her neighbors feel comfortable to make crackers , because the process proved very noisy . Start of mashing tuna , mackerel , shrimp and lemuru sometimes pose a friendly at mencak mencak inviting neighbor.