Mook Moochim – 묵무침

EDIT:  A reader informed me that I forgot to mention that I used red pepper powder.  Oops.  Yes, I did use red pepper powder and apparently forgot to write it down.  Sorry!  Recipe has been updated. There are many ways to eat mook.  You can eat it straight, you can eat it with just sauce, you can eat mook bap, or you can make mook moochim!  I had a lot of fresh vegetables in my fridge and

Mook – (묵) - Part 1

I know I’ve been slacking off on the updating department again.  Once I heard the news that my scans were clear, I no longer needed this blog as much.  This blog takes up a lot of my time, so running a household, running a business and trying to update this regularly starts to become a little much sometimes.  I’m working from home today, so I finally had the opportunity to sit down and update.  I

Chicken with Potatoes – DakDoriTang - (닭도리탕)

I’m about to have a heart attack watching this Lakers game.  I know true sports fanatics will say THIS is the way to play and that the excitement is what makes it real sports, but honestly I wish it could be a simple repeat of Game 6!  Anyhow, I’m sure I’ve mentioned before that there are various ways to make the same dish.  There’s no right way and no wrong way.  Whatever tastes best to you,

Red Pepper Paste Tofu Soup - Gochujang Dooboo Jjigae - (고추장 두부 찌개)

I have *not* been cooking lately.  Whenever I get a scan, I’m pretty much a ball of nerves until I get the results.  Literally, life is on *hold* and I don’t breathe again until I hear the words, “All is clear and there is no evidence of disease.”  I know I shouldn’t let these stupid scans run my life like that and I’m hoping with more years under my belt, I will learn to control my emotions a

Egg Roll with Corn and Cheese - (콘 치즈 계란말이)

It’s that time of the year again.  =/  I’m sitting here on the eve of yet another scan.  This is the time where I learn if I get to live life as normal again for the next six months or if I’m a *patient* again.  I go in for an MRI early tomorrow morning.  Not.looking.forward.to.it.  AT ALL.  It’s weird living as a cancer patient.  Life after treatment was supposed to be *great* and oh so

Shik-Hae – Sweet Rice Drink (dessert!) - 식혜

After reading one of my recent comments about shik-hae, I immediately started craving it.  I have a thing with food.  If I want to eat something.  *I MUST*  or I become one cranky lil old woman.  =P Ingredients Needed: 1.5 CUP cooked rice (1/2 sweet rice, 1/2 short grain white rice) 3/4 CUP yut gee-leum (fine malt powder), 1 gallon water 1/3 CUP sugar (add as much as you want to your

Dol Sot Bibimbap - (돌솥 비빔밥)

Every time my family has an event, I make sure and collect some of all the leftover banchans.  =P  I love that my family that lives less than two miles away.  Anyhow, bibimbap is SUPER easy to make…if you have all the ingredients.  I would *never* go about and try to make each and every ingredient by myself because, quite frankly, I’m lazy.  However, on days like this when all the banchans are

Gom Gook - (꼬리 곰탕)

One of my readers asked me to find them this recipe (hey h!) and I’m currently working hard to move all my pictures onto Picasa.  The quality of the pictures seems to be a lot crisper and cleaner than where I had them loaded previously.  Yes, it’s time consuming.  I realize now that I have over 100 recipes on this blog.  =O  When did I cook so much?! Anyhow, this is a really old post, but I

Jae-sah at the KC Household

As I mentioned, it was our grandfather’s jae-sah yesterday so our family met up for dinner at my parent’s house.  Although our family is Christian, I always found it interesting how they never forget to honor the deceased.  The following pictures are what we ate.      Spinach, Gosari, and Doraji.  This picture reminds me I never posted a gosari and doraji recipe.  I will have to do that in the

Cucumber Banchan

            The MR and Munchkin are both big fans of cucumbers.  I can cut up raw cucumbers and Munchkin will carry it around the house just chomping away.  This love of cucumbers has forced me to build up an arsenal of cucumber recipes in the last, now almost six, years of marriage.  I have cucumber banchan 1, cucumber banchan 2, cucumber banchan 3, cucumber banchan 4, cucumber banchan 5…well

Food From Korea 2010 – Part Four

While in Korea, we had the opportunity to visit Jejudo for two nights.  The last time I was there was exactly 10 years ago and I must say the little island has changed.  The streets are all paved and it’s so easy to get around!  We were fully able to get around ourselves with just a navi and rental car.     We were in a mart and I saw this!  So cool.  Spam in a pack!  I’m told they now have

Food From Korea 2010 – Part Three

     THIS!  OMG.  THIS was perhaps the best jjambong I ate in my life.  It was a little hole in the wall with no more than 10 tables, but there was a line out the door.  The MR actually went back the next day to eat it again.     Street food in Insadong.     Boong-uh Bbang!  Totally brought me back to my childhood.       Octopus Leg.  I love octopus leg.  My uncle used to

Quail Eggs in Soy Sauce - (메추리알 조림)

While at the Korean grocery store, I happened to come upon some quail eggs and decided to buy them.    Ingredients Needed: 20 quail eggs 10-15 garlic cloves, 1 red pepper, 1 green pepper 2 CUPS water, 1/4 CUP soy sauce, 1.5 TB sugar, 2TB cooking wine   I just bought one package of eggs.   Boil the eggs for about 10 minutes and then rinse them under cool water.

Food From Korea 2010 - Part Two

I don’t remember the names of all these restaurants, though I’m sure I have pictures of the sign post somewhere. I will just upload these pictures and if anyone is really interested in visiting a particular restaurant, leave a comment and I’ll go and dig up the name.      I loved how most of the restaurants were so kid friendly!     Lunch at Xin Restaurant.  I asked the family to

My Camera

I know some people have been asking here and there.99.9% of the food pictures on this blog are taken with my Canon 50D with this Tamron lens. I am probably one of the few food bloggers that use *gasp* flash in ALL my food pictures. The reason I use flash is because we live in a condo that faces the opposite side of the sun. I have minimal natural lighting. =P I do have another lens that I

Food from Korea 2010 – Part One

My closet is emptied and I’m finding it really hard to put everything back in.  I’m supposed to gather up the winter clothes and take them to my mom’s house for storage, but instead I thought I would torture my readers with some food pictures taken in Korea.  =P  It’s lunch time now, right?   Enjoy!     Family dinner at home!     Lunch with the MR and Munchkin at Shinsaegae.  I only

BooChoo Jun – 부추 전

This past weekend was definitely a much needed break for our family.  We spent *every* single day together out and about and doing something or another.  I already mentioned in my previous post that we stocked up on groceries.  While at the store, they were having a *sale* on boo-choo (Korean chives), so I decided to stock up and make some jun/jeon. I washed and cleaned THREE bunches of boochoo.

Are you a FAN yet?

You're not? Well then, what's stopping you?!Hurry up and get to it please! =)CLICK ON THIS and hit "LIKE" next to Korean Cuisine.THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!P.S. I'm BAAACKKKK! ;)P.P.S. And NO the insurance fu**tards have still not approved my next set of MRI's. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping they get off their lazy butts and do so in the next week or so. I'm *very* curious to see

Rolled Egg – (계란 말이)

I’m currently in the midst of using new publishing software to make posting on this blog a bit easier.  I’m a bit comp-illiterate so trying to figure out how to use a new platform is quite time consuming.  You might see a lot of posts coming up and down over the next few weeks while I try and get everything sorted out.  =P  Please bear with me. Anyhow, over the weekend we dropped by K-Town to