May 2, 2009
Don’t you love home cooked food?
Assorted veggies, or “namul”, chwee namul which is some kind of vegetable that I don’t know the English name and fiddle head ferns + roasted asparagus.
Kimchi soup. Yes there a plain soup version rather than a stew. Much lighter and basically broth and in this case with clams added.
One
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February 2, 2009
Nengmyun or naengmyeon, meaning “cold noodles.” Originally North Korean, to be eaten in the winter. They’re made of buckwheat and in a slushy beef broth base, slightly sweet and tangy. The more modern addition has a spicy sauce, but normally you add a dash of white vinegar and
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February 1, 2009
Yay, look what came in the mail!
If you thought that life could not get any better than the fake paninis produced by the George Foreman Lean Mean Grilling (Grillin’ ?) Machine, you would be wrong. Because life did get better. Did you ever think that one day a home fryer would employ the principle of centrifugal force to
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January 18, 2009
I really hate the smell of eggs. Omg, the yolks!! I remember this book from when I was 10 because the girl has to eat a raw egg to prove something about something.
This doesn’t really
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January 17, 2009
This is only sort of food related. My mom’s friend from Osaka is visiting and her daughter sent me these little keychain toys.
The one on the left is supposed to be the tag off a cardboard box. The one on the right is a soybean/edamame. You can rip off the tag and push out the edamame…forever. Watch the
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December 30, 2008
Isn’t it strange how once you stop blogging it’s so hard to start again? Anyways that’s my excuse. I sort of mastered the art of char siu-ing, which is not nearly as difficult as I imagined. Why does it taste so good?? It’s the pork that comes as topping for your ramen but is never never enough. You can tie
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November 16, 2008
Ice
Somen/somyun
Ground beef
Chopped kimchi
Sliced Korean pear, cucumbers and a spicy sauce (gochujang – Korean spicy chili paste, garlic, sugar, rice vinegar, garlic, sesame seeds, sesame oil).The taste of summer…I actually love cold noodles in the winter. So North Korean of me.
*Bibim means to rub/mix, kooksu is noodles. So literal.
November 8, 2008
Ddak dongchi. My friend claimed it’s stir fried chicken buttholes. That’s what the name sounds like but I’m not sure, that would take a lot of chickens. They were chewy though. A Dongdaemun pogjangmacha, Seoul, Korea.
Super delish shaved ice, bingsu…Pearlberry, Seoul, Korea.
