Recipes
Mushroom-Leek Frittata
I learned this recipe back in Blatch from a Moosewood cookbook. A Frittata is a type of Italian dish which is similar to quiche. I’ve cooked this one a few times over the years, often when I wanted to impress someone with my abilities in the kitchen. They would get to see me chop and ...
Lemon Feta Basil Linguini with Chicken
This blog entry was actually started late last year, and I never got around to finishing it until today. From Dec. 2016… I’m supposed to cook at least once a month this year as part of the yearly plan. So far I’m doing pretty good. In July I played around with Thai food, learning some excellent dishes ...
Sam Gye Tang (삼계탕)
On Sunday, K, her cousin and I went to the Chung-ang traditional market. It’s the same place where I got the squid from the Chungmu kimbap. The next dish is Sam Gye Tang, Chicken ginseng soup. Koreans love to eat this in the summer. We had a lot of fun shopping in the ...
Chungmu Kimbap (충무 김밥)
On Saturday some of our friends had a pot-luck. There was plenty of food to choose from, chicken soup, risotto, apple pie. For my contribution, I decided to make Chungmu kimbap which comes from Tongyeong on the southwest coast of Korea. Why not call it Tongyeong kimbap? Because Tongyeong was originally called Chungmu to honour ...
Happy New Year! Rice Cake Soup (떡 국)
February 14th was Valentine’s Day. But it was also Lunar New Year over here in Korea. In Korea, it’s traditional to eat Ddeok guk on Lunar New Year’s Day. Ddeok is Korean rice cake. I saw two people making rice cake in a traditional village during my EPIK orientation. The process involved a wooden sledgehammer, ...
Beef Vegetable Korean Rice Porridge (소고기 야채 죽)
Juk is a type of rice congee. In simple terms, it’s Korean Rice Porridge. Different types of congee can be found in other Asian countries. In Japan it’s called ‘okayu’, whereas Indonesians know it by the name ‘bubur’. Here in Korea, juk is often recommended for the elderly or for eating when you are sick ...