Spicy Fruit Salad | Rujak

Ingredients:

* 1 chayote, peeled
* 1 Granny Smith apple, cored
* 2 cucumbers, peeled and cut in half lengthwise with seeds removed
* 1 mango
* 1 orange, peeled and divided into sections
* 3 crushed red chilli (add more if you want more spicy)
* 1/4 tsp shrimp paste
* 3 tbsp palm sugar/Javanese sugar
* 1/4 tsp salt
* 1 tsp tamarind, dissolved in 1 tbsp warm water
* 1 14-oz. can diced pineapple, drained

How To:

* Coarsely chop chayote, apple, cucumbers, mango, and orange sections.
* In a large bowl, combine crushed red pepper, shrimp paste, brown sugar, salt, and tamarind to make a paste.
* Add chayote, apple, cucumber, mango, orange, and pineapple to the bowl, and stir well to combine. Serve at room temperature.
(sumber:www.indonesianculinary.com)

Green Chicken Spices | Ayam Bumbu Hijau

Ingredients:

* 8 pieces of chicken, seasoned with lime juice and salt
* 3 green chili, seedless, oblique slices
* 5 shallots, sliced
* 4 kaffir lime leaves, discard the bones leaves
* 2 salam leaves
* 1 lemongrass, smashed
* 1 cm lengkuas, smashed
* Salt
* Fine pepper
* 1 cup coconut milk

Finely pounded spices into paste:

* 5 shallots
* 6 candle nuts
* 5 cloves garlic
* 1 cm turmeric
* 10 green chili
* Salt

How to make:

1. Stir-fry seasoning fine, enter red onion slices, green chili slices, orange leaves, Serai, lengkuas until fragrant.
2. Enter the chicken, salt and pepper finely, mixed evenly, cooking until chicken changes color. Add adequate water, cooking until the water dry up.
3. Last cast coconut milk, mix well while cooking until the chicken cooked and the sauce curdle.
(sumber:www.indonesianculinary.com)

Balinesse Spices Chicken | Ayam Bumbu Bali

Ingredients:

* 1 chicken cut into 20 pieces
* 1 cm lengkuas, smashed
* 2 salam leaves
* 3 Kaffir lime leaves
* 2 tomato each cut into 8 pieces
* 2 tablespoons sweet soy sauce

Finely pounded spices into paste:

* 7 red chilies
* 5 pieces shallot
* 4 cloves garlic
* 2 cm ginger
* 3 eggs candle nuts
* 1/2 teaspoon shrimp paste, which has been in the frying

How to make:

1. Chicken, seasoned with salt, leave it briefly, and half-cooked.
2. Stir-fry spices paste until fragrant, add lengkuas, salam leaves, kaffir lime leaves, tomatoes and sweet soy sauce.
3. Add the chicken that has been half-fried, cooked until the tomatoes crushed and spices inveterate into the chicken, ready to serve.
(sumber:www.indonesianculinary.com)

Fish in Yellow Soup | Ikan Kuah Kuning

Ingredients:

* 2 mackerel (could be replaced with another fish)
* 1 lime
* 2 table spoon oil
* 4 stem kemangi (leaves only)

Spices:

* 4 shallot
* 2 clove garlic
* 3 candlenuts
* 50 gr canary (optional, could be replaced with candlenut)
* 2 red chili
* 5 bird eye chilli (leave whole)
* 1 tomato (cut into 4)
* 2 cm ginger
* 2 cm turmeric
* 1 lemongrass (smashed)
* 2 salam leaves
* 1 table spoon sugar
* 1/2 table spoon salt (more/less according to taste).

How to make:

1. Brushing cleaned fish with salt and lime. take aside
2. Finely pounded into paste shallots, gralic, turmeric, ginger, candlenuts, canary and red chilli.
3. Saute spices paste until fragrant, add salam leaves and tomatoes.
4. Add 700 cc water, let it boil
5. Add fish, salt, sugar and bird eye chilli, cooked few minutes with high heat. Then reduced the heat until fish cooked.
6. Add kemangi and 1 table spoon lime before remove from stove.
(sumber:www.indonesianculinary.com)

Planer Boards As Your Primary Trolling Tool

Water in our ecosystem has gone from low visibility to extremely clear. With this change of environment the angler must evolve in his presentation to produce consistently. This article will talk you through a very effective way to meet these demands for sunny conditions with spooky fish.

Hello all: I consider it a privilege to be a member of your fishing community and pass on ideas and knowledge to everyone. Most of my articles talk about products which I believe will make you a better angler. Some I sell and some I find of a quality level worth my endorsement. My goal is to always serve the community and enrich your fishing experience.

Now is the time to move to the next generation of presentations. If you find yourself behind the pack when it comes to putting fish in the cooler, a system of planer boards will improve your learning curve.

Allow me to outline and give details of several options in planer board fishing. This will provide some ideas you may want try in the upcoming season. I highly recommend them.

Equipment for getting started

While there is some expenses involved the rewards will be great. Initially two boards will get you going. Expect to pay between $25 and $35 each for individual board with many more or less expensive choices. I will give details on my first choice and then offer some others.

There was a time when long lines with weight were the standard for getting the baits well behind the boat. This is a system of inline weight attached to the line about four feet ahead of the bait. By changing the weight size you will raise or lower the spoon or bait in the water column.

The function of a planer board is to increase your odds by moving the bait off to the side of the boat. By presenting lures outside of the boat’s path in undisturbed water you will find them more likely to bite. Each board is made in a way that when trolled behind the boat it will move to left or right of your travel path. Some boards, like the Church Tackle TX 22, are reversible allowing you to run them left or right.

Rigging is simple. After you have let out the line to the distance you would like, attach the board with the clip provided by the manufacturer. Once the board is attached lower the board into the water allowing it to run off to the side of the boat. When the fish strikes you may do one of two things. Do not release the board just reel the board to the rod tip and hand release it. Then finish reeling in your fish. A second option is to release the board, which slides down the line toward the inline weight and stops. The board is reeled in with the fish and the fish is netted.

Up to now we have talked about individual boards that go on each line. You can also go with a large board towed on each side of the boat pulled by a heavy monofilament line. The line is let out the same as before and then attached with a release to the heavy mono line to the large board. As you let out additional line the release will slide down the mono toward the board. You may stop the release any time along the way to the large board. When the fish strikes the line pulls free of the release and the fish is reeled in. Then the line is reset and attached to tow line again. The draw back of this system is it requires a tall mast to pull the large boards and is not transferable boat to boat. The advantage to individual boards is less cost and I find them more efficient in setting line and cranking in fish when on a hot bite.

Good Luck! Jim charters out of Milwaukee, WI. with Blue Max Charters. He can be reached at 414-828-1094 or visit his web site at http://www.bluemaxcharters.com Copyright© 2010, James J. Hirt, All Rights Reserved
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Salmon Fishing Puzzle Solved!

Salmon in particular and many other species can be especially finicky and difficult to catch. As all types of fish are unique in their habitat there is some common threads in their DNA. The common factors and threads are the parts of the puzzle that, when fitted together, will solve some of your most difficult questions. Now let's explore the common threads.

Forage is huge!

Forage relates to what your quarry likes to eat and in some cases will eat when necessary. Your research in this area must include local anglers along with bait shops and Internet or magazines. The season, water temperature and ecosystem are all important in your decision. Focus on size, color and location for the best results.

Seasonal patterns

All fish have different preferences as they go through their annual life cycles. Pay special attention to this part of the puzzle. Most anglers know when their target spawns but there is much more to this equation. Each locale will be different and if the second week in April is the time for the bass to be on the spawning beds in your area this may not be true if you are fishing three hundred miles north or south of your location. Observation is key. Look to where you usually find fish and without satisfactory results expand your search.

Temperature is everything

When I do my seminars I constantly harp on temperature as a major player in productive consistent angling. Consider your fishing target much like an opponent in a sport. By knowing the temp preference of the target you will be a leg up on the other anglers. This knowledge will eliminate tons of non-productive water. Temperature will tell you about the attitude and most likely location to fish. A temp that is near the optimum or ideal for your species can be approached with your most aggressive baits and presentations. On the other hand warm water fish that are in cold water will require a slower and perhaps smaller lures or baits.

Summary

Consider all three forage, seasonal patterns and temperature when trying to solve the fishing puzzle and you will be on your way to becoming a better angler. The next article will continue with more parts of the puzzle to complete or at least give some shape and direction to the sport of angling. Adjust to meet conditions and you will become a better angler. Do you like to blog? I have just launched my fishing community at http://www.jimhirt.com Come offer your comments, knowledge and please ask questions. Good Luck let's go fishing! Jim charters out of Milwaukee, WI. with Blue Max Charters. He can be reached at 414-828-1094 or visit his web site at http://www.bluemaxcharters.com Copyright © 2010, James J. Hirt, All Rights Reserved