Follow up, Some different spices

After I googled a little. Thanks Michael K for the good start. I found that Karangsari is a peanut salad dressing used on a vegetable salad, among other things I'm sure.
The Karangsari is a firm paste shaped like a block. It contains peanuts, palm sugar, chili, citrus, hysterix leaves, (Boron thinks this might be kefir lime leaves. I'll ask Nick on abf if his wife would know) tamarind, garlic and salt.

The label stated 4 servings so I marked off the block into fourths. http://i27.tinypic.com/2zyydeq.jpg
Close up inside. See those chili's, it's spicy. http://i32.tinypic.com/2nlwsd1.jpg

Put one slice is hot water, barely to cover, about 1/3 cup water. http://i32.tinypic.com/iz0xeu.jpg

While the paste was softening I cooked some red potatoes and carrots. Then blanched some cabbage and snow peas and boiled up a couple of eggs. And sliced up some cucumber.
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Every recipe I read called for green beans. This is one of the rare times I don't have any green beans so I used snow peas instead. What the heck, the ingredients for the dressing are multicultural, so the vegetables should be too.
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Close up of salad. If you decide to try this sometime, I'd suggest waiting to dress the salad as you plate it. The dressing looks like barf and I had to move around and rinse off some veggies so the photo wouldn't look disgusting.
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koko

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