10/14/2008
3 recipes by aeri I cooked three dishes from aeriskitchen.com today. Three weeks ago I bought a ton of ingredients but I never got around to making many Korean dishes. The other day I threw away a bowlful of shiitake mushrooms 'coz they went bad before I could get to them. Mushrooms were starting to grow on mushrooms. I blame my work schedule. This recipe calls for zucchini but I used Italian squash, maybe it's the same thing, maybe not. I don't know. That's the stack of pancakes. So good. I didn't have red pepper so I used red pepper powder. This is stir fried fish cake in soy sauce. Aeri's looks so much better. I run out of regular sesame seeds so I used black sesame seeds. There's still a big Ziploc-full of it in the pantry. I have no idea what to do with it. Please take it. This dish (sidedish?) is good but I miss the spiciness of the red sauce in the original. This skewered beef and imitation crab is fun to make. It looks fancy but I bet it would taste better grilled (not pan fried and burnt like this, hehe, my mind was busy with other stuff). Labels: recipe
9/30/2008
Spicy Beef Soup (육개장) Here's Maangchi's recipe for Yukgaejang. Labels: recipe
9/28/2008
Chicken Pot (no)Pie and Chicken and Dumplings I got this idea from a TV show. Instead of a pie crust, phyllo dough is used to cover the chicken mixture. Maybe that cook was lazy. Maybe she had extra phyllo. Maybe she forgot to buy pie pastry so she used phyllo but was too tired to brush it with butter before crumpling the ridiculously thin sheets so she just tore the phyllo into pieces, threw it over the dish and shoved it into a 400 degree oven for 20 minutes. That's probably how this came about. An hour ago, I just put this bowl of chicken and dumplings in the fridge (or "ref" as we Filipinos call it). I like cooking late at night. No one has to taste it and if it goes horribly wrong I just toss it and no one would know about it. While waiting for things to brown or boil I like to sit silently and think about stuff like "Why am I so fat? When will this wound scab over so I can peel it off? Mmm, this dish is gonna be so delicious I can smell it. Yum!" Labels: recipe
9/22/2008
Jap Chae (잡채) Aeri's recipe Labels: Korean language, recipe
9/18/2008
닭갈비 - Dak Kalbi I didn't have all the ingredients in Aeri's recipe but I cooked it anyway. I omitted the sweet potato and sesame leaves. Beads of sweat from eating this spicy dish. I didn't expect this to be so spicy! I even requested a spicier chicken recipe from her, 불닭. There will be sweating and crying when I try that one. Labels: recipe
9/05/2008
Tasteless Shrimp I peeled shrimp, marinated, skewered and grilled them. It's called Lemon Ginger Shrimp and almost everyone loved it over at allrecipes.com. I think it should be renamed 'Shrimp with a Marinade That is So Flavorless it Somehow Extracts the Inherent Flavor of Shrimp to Result in "negative flavor."' It not only lacks taste, it owes it. I didn't think it was possible. Labels: recipe
9/04/2008
Kimchi Fried Rice I had this for breakfast and lunch. This is yummy if you like kimchi. The kimchi in the fridge is getting sour so I made kimchi fried rice. Here's what you'll need. Fry chopped kimchi in oil. Add sugar and salt. Mix in rice. Add kimchi juice and sesame oil (1 tbsp. per cup of rice). Total cooking time is about 10 minutes. Top with fried egg. Labels: recipe
9/03/2008
Balls and seeds I made these sesame seed balls today. They're called 'buchi' in the Philippines. I've never seen them made with black sesame seeds so I tried it out. Apparently black sesame seeds don't come in 'try me' packs. Once you go black... Red bean paste: Online recipes say these double in size but my balls did not. Some even instruct you to push them against the side of the pan. I only did this to 3 balls. This proved to be very dangerous. The balls freakin' exploded and I had to use ninja moves to evade the oily detonation. I busted my balls making these and they just busted. They tasted just as good though. In conclusion, black or not these balls are delicious. Moral lesson: never push balls against pans. Labels: recipe
Click here for the chicken and dumplings recipe from allrecipes.com.
I made this two days ago and I ate some at a Methodist church yesterday. I was asked whether I like Korean girls again. I just smile whenever this question is raised. The people are so friendly but 주현 tells them I speak Korean. The pastor spoke to me in Korean and I kept turning to 주현 'coz I can't hold conversations entirely in Korean.
1 part kimchi (starting to ferment is better)
I think of Hyeong and his family whenever I make Korean food. He used to invite me over at least 3 times a month and we'd eat dinner together. I miss those times. It's been 3 months since I last saw him. He emailed last week but has not responded to my reply. I don't want to call because he might feel like he has to invite me over. I don't know how to feel or what to think about this.
2 parts rice (leftover, cold)
kimchi juice
salt and sugar to taste
sesame oil
Buchi (sesame seed balls)
Boil 1 c. red beans till soft. Drain. Add 1 c. brown sugar and melt.
1 c. hot water, 1/3 c. brown sugar, 1 1/2 c glutinous rice flourStuff golf ball-sized dough with red bean paste. Seal tightly. Dip in water before rolling the balls in sesame seeds. Deep fry 2 minutes in oil.
