Kimchi fried rice is as fancy as you want to make it but the basic ingredients are cold rice, kimchi, kimchi juice and an egg. We had lots of leftover rice from yesterday (deliberate) to make this today.Using the last bit of kimchi I’ve had…
Galbitang for dinner! Galbitang is a Korean beef short rib soup and it’s my absolute favourite! The ribs are boiled until the meat falls off the bone and the soup is simply flavoured with salt, pepper and spring onions. You eat it with rice and…
Tonight’s dinner is: dakgalbi It’s a spicy stir fried chicken dish, cooked and served in front of you.Koreans also love adding mozzarella cheese to this dish, sometimes it helps when it’s a super spicy version.The stir fry includes chicken, cabbage, carrots, tteokk (rice cakes) spring…
Tonight’s dinner is bulgogi with some mayak gyerran on the side. Eggs are soft boiled then marinated in a soy mix for 6 hours. It’s so delicious over rice! Martyn bought 16 British blue eggs from Costco yesterday so marinated half a dozen. This recipe…
Pancake Day Korean style!I love pancakes but need savoury for dinner so kimchi and haemul pajeon it is! Some of you have probably had a kimchi pancake but my favourite has always been the seafood and spring onion pancake. It’s made with a seasoned flour…
Sotteok Sotteok (소떡 소떡) which is a portmanteau of sausage and tteok (rice cake) and repeated in ref of the skewer was apparently an invention by a Korean comedian. She made it on a TV show and next thing you know, it was the trendiest…
All this WFH at least means I use my slow cooker more often. Tonight’s dinner is Dakbokkumtang (닭볶음탕), also known was Dakdoritang and Dakmeyuntang, essentially, spicy braised chicken stew. The fall off the bone chicken in a spicy sauce, the deliciously soft potatoes and carrots…
Guys, you’ve probably seen the Chapaguri or “RamDon” noodle recipe from Parasite flying around. Well, let me tell you, these black bean noodles, aka Jjajangmyeun are what the Chapagetti instant noodles are based on! This is one of the many Chinese/Korean dishes and is the…
Today’s cooking adventure: kimbap!You may say, Lia, those are just sushi and you’d be so wrong! Here are the fundamental differences: The rice is seasoned with salt and sesame oil, no rice vinegar here! The basic filling usually includes seasoned spinach, damuji (pickled sweet yellow…
HOT WEATHER RECIPE! Bibimguksu!Korea gets incredibly HOT in the summer. When it’s really hot, Koreans eat either boiling hot stews to naturally cool down or cold dishes such as this one!You might be familiar with bibimbap, this sounds similar because “bibim” means mixed and “guksu”…