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Loading ...November 19, 2009
Remember when I made kimchi fried rice? It has become my staple meal when I feel ultra lazy. Read: ALL THE TIME.
So how panicked was I when I went to the kitchen yesterday to take out all the precious ingredients out of the fridge,
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November 12, 2009
I am happy to announce that Korean Cuisine, a cookbook I photographed, has just been published. The author is chef and food writer/educator Yongja Kim. I developed a new found
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August 6, 2009
Looks like we’re celebrating carbs here at UM, as this rice post is back to back with Yoko’s mugi-toro don! Ain’t nothin’ wrong with carbs, people- get over it!!! Kimchi fried rice is my new favorite dish to cook up at home- it takes seven minutes
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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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March 28, 2009
In the spirit of March Madness, the heaven-sent blog LA Taco has posted their Elite 8 bracket for Taco Madness 2009. Since college basketball’s Elite 8 commences tonight I thought it would be appropriate to post an
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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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December 17, 2008
There’s a little Korea-town in the Akasaka section of Tokyo, just a little side street filled with Korean-owned and operated restaurants. Here, my friend Maho took me to one of her favorite spots, Ton-chan. There
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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.
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