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Black Bean Noodles ( Jjajangmyoen )
Lately it’s been like a korean fest in our household . It’s really like we live in korea , we cook korean dish almost everyday for the past week , not to mention to make it complete , we even made our own kim chi ! So there i was , hungry for korean famous dish , black bean noodles , i happened to have the sauce on hand , bought it on my trip couple of weeks ago to the korean market . view full post »
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Kimchi Chigae ( Spicy Fermented Cabbage Stew )
Since i made kimchi about 2 weeks ago , i’ve been trying all kinds of korean dish that uses kimchi as its base . One of them is this , kimchi stew . A little bit nervous at first since truthfully i don’t really like kimchi itself , but i like kimchijeon ( kimchi pancake ) , so why not trying kimchi stew . Add some meat in there , and water , which might be the reason why it’s not as sour and strong , but it has a very delicious broth !! view full post »
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Jjamppong ( Spicy Seafood Noodle Soup w/ Vegetables )
Made Jjamppong tonight for dinner , it was very delicious . This dish i call , one pot meal , why ? Because it has everything you need in just 1 bowl . Not to mention it is spicy and delicious . I made the stock first , using dried anchovy , onion , kelp and dried shiitake mushroom . And let it boil for 40 minutes . The dish itself actually is not hard to make at all , just takes time with the preparation , not to mention having to wait for the stock to be ready . But anyway , the soup has tons of vegetables you…
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Yangnyeom Tongdak ( Korean seasoned fried chicken )
Earlier this afternoon i started making this fried chicken , i happened to get a good deal on chicken wings and chicken legs , so i grabbed both packages . And since i found the recipe from Maangchi , for this fried chicken , i was tempted to try it . No , it’s not hard , it’s just deep fried stuff and in my mind , deep frying stuff is always good and always makes my kitchen messy . But i did it anyway , i had a electric deep fryer at home , but it’s been in the storage and i would think if i used that i…
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Kim Chi
Today i finally braced myself to try to make kim chi . One of our friend , Sara , her husband loves kim chi , and i guess it’s because he used to live there once , no he’s not korean . Anyway , he had made kim chi before , and according to Sara , the kim chi , stunk up the house .. And since then i thought many many times .. but i decided no .. i am not going to make kim chi if it’s going to make the house so smelly . view full post »
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Star Anise Ginger Braised Whole Chicken
The other day i went to this spice place about 30 minutes from where i live , where you can buy spices as little as you need or as many as you need . Then i remembered that i need to get star anise , there was this dish from Simply Ming book that requires that . So tonight that’s what i cooked , i made chicken dish with star anise and ginger , and other root vegetables , the result .. the broth was OH MY .. it was so good !! Delicious and tasty . view full post »
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My mom’s tomato soup ( sup merah )
When i was younger , sup merah , or as i called it now , tomato soup , was one of my favorite . I didn’t get to eat them too often , mom used to make them for special occasion only , such as birthdays , christmas or new year , those kind of things . I wonder why she didn’t make this more often , but now come to think of it , probably because back then , it was too much work to make this kind of soup , although now , and esp. over here in States , everything is made easy for us . Back…
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Mixed Berries with Creme Anglaise on a pastry shell
Last night , i didn’t cook for dinner .. i wasn’t feeling that well . Our son , had a sleep over at grandparent’s house , we just threw in frozen pizza in the oven . I had this awful strep throat .. and it was my first time ever had it , it was so painful and miserable !! So , anyway , i felt better later on that night , and after having some pizza , i thought why not throwing in this easy dessert together and we can have them . view full post »
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Simple salad with homemade croutons
I usually buy croutons from the store , tonight when i was about to make salad , i just realized that we ran out of croutons , so i thought it shouldn’t be too hard to make , should it ? view full post »
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Linguine with spicy turkey sausage
Tonight i made this dish , original recipe calls for italian sausage , but since we’ve been trying to eat some healthy stuff , i ended up replacing the sausage with turkey sausage . I picked Jenny-O , hot italian turkey sausage . Turned out to be pretty delicious too , as for the linguine i stick with the regular , instead of the whole wheat , i got traumatized the last time i used whole wheat linguine because they get so dry , maybe i needed to cook them longer , but i don’t like overcooked pasta , we love al dente pasta . So anyway , i also…
