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Radish Kimchi
On over a year staying here in Korea, I am already used with their food. There are days that I am craving for bibimbap but can’t do anything because too shy to go inside a Korean restaurant because until now I am ignorant with their national language, I always told myself to learn it but I am always busy to do so. Maybe I will learned when we are not here anymore in Korea, sarcasm.
Anyway Kimchi is the traditional fermented Korean dish, mostly when people heard kimchi what immediately comes to their mind is cabbage. For your information it has different varieties as what I know there are 100 varieties of kimchi. This one (photo) is my favorite as of now, it is a radish kimchi. Every time I ate I have a side dish of this except with noodles of course. This kimchi is served in cubes that’s why when I want to eat I have to cut it into cubes.
If you want to make your own radish kimchi here’s how:
Cubed Radish Kimchi
1 daikon radish (weighing approximately 1 1/2 lbs.)
Water and kosher salt for brining
2 tsp Korean fine chili pepper powder
1/2 bulb of garlic, finely grated
1 1/2″ fresh ginger, finely grated
4 tsp Korean anchovy sauce
1 1/2 tsp sugar
3 tsp Korean coarse chili pepper flakes
4 scallions, green parts only, sliced into 1″ lengths
1 1/2 tsp rice flour
3/8 C water
- Fill a big non-reactive bowl (this means no metal!) with cool water and stir in a handful of kosher salt. Peel the radish and cut into 1″ cubes. Put the radish cubes into the brine and leave them there to soak for 20 minutes.
- Make rice porridge by mixing the rice flour into the 3/8 C water and bringing it to a boil, at which point it will thicken, then removing it from the heat and setting it aside to cool to room temperature.
- Sterilize a jar. (Yeah, this seems kinda silly, but all the recipes I’ve read suggest it, so why not?)
- When the radish cubes are done brining, rinse them off with cool water. Mix in the Korean fine chili pepper powder.
- Mix all the other ingredients into a paste, then mix them into the radish cubes, making sure that all the cubes are basically smeared all over with this stuff. This is tons of fun to do with bare hands.
- Put the whole mess into a jar and screw on the lid. Leave it out at room temperature for about 40 hours, at which point it is ready for eating and should be kept in the fridge henceforth.
Recipe Source: Gothamist
My all time favorite banana milk
I love drinking yogurts, fruit shakes and lassis but I am not fan of drinking fresh milk alone, most of the time the milk in the fridge get spoiled. Sometimes I ate it with cereal but I am getting tired of cereal too. My sweetie pookie bear bought a blender month ago and it just a time that I am addicted to fruit milk shake called Banana milk. I first tasted it when I bought a smaller bottle when we went shopping and then I craved for it that I want to buy every time we went shopping for our weekly food. My sweetie pookie bear don’t like it, because it became my treat. Well it is really a bit expensive to buy 4 small bottles a day or sometimes I want more. And so since we bought a small blender I made my own banana milk. If you don’t know what is banana milk it is pretty much exactly what it sounds like a blend of banana and milk to create a banana flavored milk beverage. It is popular here in Korea, you can find it in every food mart or store. To make it you are just going to mix fresh milk and the banana in a blender and presto its ready to drink. You can add vanilla too if you desired.Banana milk can be beneficial because bananas are high in potassium, fiber, vitamin C manganese, and vitamin B6. Try it on your home for sure your kiddos will love it.
Picture above is my ready to drink banana milk, I just put the banana as a design.
Walnut Pie
Since the other day the temperature here is getting colder that a normal jacket can’t be used anymore, time to use the winter jacket. As I am feeling cold making this blog I am thinking of eating a walnut pie, I wish to eat one right now.
Last Chuseok my husband and I had a little disagreement, I want cake but he wants this walnut pie below. When I first tasted the pie, he was right I am going to like it.
Ingredients
* 3 eggs
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 3/4 cup white sugar
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 3/4 cup light corn syrup
* 1 cup chopped walnuts
* 1/4 cup butter
* 1 (9 inch) deep dish pie crust
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C).
2. Beat the eggs in a large bowl. Mix in sugar, salt, vanilla, and syrup. Melt the butter or margarine, and add it to the egg mixture. Stir in the nuts. Pour filling into pie shell.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C), and continue baking for 35 to 45 minutes.
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Peanut Butter Craze
Don’t know what to say, after posting my Blue Monday entry I feel kind of hungry so I rush into the kitchen and prepare a loaf of bread and grab the bottle of peanut butter. OMG, in my surprise it is almost empty. I think there’s two wipe left for bread. We just bought it yesterday. Dunno what happened I guess hubby’s eating the peanut butter alone, because I just buy a loaf of bread today to the other supermarket because there’s no bread on the supermarket we used to shop, after consuming it all in preparing grilled cheese sandwich the other day. TLast week it happened too, when I sleep the peanut butter is full when I wake up just one wipe to my bread and its gone.
I guess next time I am going to grab two bottle of peanut butter in the supermarket, one for me and for him. We both like it eh.,
Mellow Yellow Monday- Cheat Day
It’s Monday again, I have noticed I am becoming yellow fanatic. Once I saw a yellow thing in the street or in food, for sure my camera is ready to roll.
Friday is our cheat day, cheating on our diet errr… hubby’s diet, so during this day we can eat any sweets we want. So here’s what I have last Friday, 2 boxes of cookies, one parfait and a box of pizza. One pizza for the two of us is not enough so we have one pizza each, hubby’s pizza is not included here, he don’t want me to take picture of his food.
Scramble Eggs with Kimchi
I love cooking but sometimes I am just lazy to do it especially when I am already in the front of a computer. Way back in the Philippines my mother and I just cook anything we found in our back yard, we always do experimenting.
So here’s a scramble eggs with kimchi, at first I don’t know if it is possible but the fire made it possible. Hubby like it so much..
Ingredients:
eggs
green onions
kimchi
salt
How to prepare:
Just scramble the eggs and mix the ingredients all together and fried it.
Stone bibimbap
Except from gimbap and kimchi I also like the Korean food bibimbap, i’ts been a long time since I have ask hubby to bring me in a Korean restaurant but we always end up not going because too afraid to order because we can’t speak their language. I always told him that we are just going to do “point-point” to their menu, but when hubby agreed I am the one who back-out.
The first time I went to a Korean Restaurant, it is also the name of the food establishment was when we are with Edward (hubby’s Korean friend), we are in Wangsimi that time staying in a hotel. Edward help us moved there so after moving we ate, they ordered bibimbap and I ordered bugolgi hot pot. See it here.
So went to Seoul last weekend, I have asked him again. We ended up in Insadong, and very lucky to find English translation to their menu. Anyway the photo at the top is another variation of bibimbap, this is called dolsot bibimbap (stone bibimbap). This is served in a very hot stone bowl in which a raw egg is cooked against the sides of the bowl. The bowl is so hot that anything that touches it sizzles for minutes. Before the rice is placed in the bowl, the bottom of the bowl is coated with sesame oil, making the layer of the rice touching the bowl golden brown and crispy. It was really hot, that makes the rice a fried rice, yes indeed the rice became hard like fried one.
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Spaghetti with Cream Sauce
I love eating spaghetti so much and as of now my favorite variation is the spaghetti with cream sauce, I first tasted at VIPS Steakhouse. Then I kept craving for it, so whenever I went to Family Mart and I like eating this spaghetti I will sure bag a box of it. Sometimes it is not enough so I look online for the recipe and I am going to share it to you.
Ingredients:
2 cups mushroom slices
1 cup halved zucchini slices
1 garlic clove, minced
2 tablespoons Parkay Margarine
1/3 cup half and half
1/2 pound Velveeta Pasteurized Process Cheese Spread, cubed
8 ounces spaghetti, cooked, drained
Preparation:
Saute vegetables and garlic in margarine until zucchini is crisp-tender. Reduce heat to low. Add half and half and Velveeta. Stir until Velveeta is melted. Toss with hot spaghetti.
Makes 6 servings
This recipe created by Kraft Foods.
Craving for Cheese Muffins
Nothing to do, feeling bored clicking my earning sites. I want to post something but I don’t know what to post. Grrrr..I hate this feeling What’s the history behind my picture below? “One moment…one Nescafe!” sad to say there’s no Nescafe here in our area, there’s none or I didn’t find any..? The heck with that, yesterday I went to Dunkin Donuts and buy some donuts of course, haha I can’t just go there and say “Anyeong haseyo” to the staffs. Well hubby says he needs four donuts aside from the other stuff have to buy in the family mart. So I just picked anything I like because the one he likes is absent, maybe having a make-up class. Lol, does donuts attend class? Weird!
So I went home carrying a big box of donuts, the four became times two. I am startled what are those group of ladies doing in the street, they are all in yellow with number 7 printed, sash, caps, gloves, shirts, dunno if under wears has number too, well I belong because I am also wearing a yellow shirt the only difference numberless.
So to cut the story short I arrived home, hand the donuts to hubby. He didn’t say anything why there is 8 donuts, maybe its already understood (hehehe). I am very much full with my meal that I just ate one piece of it, saving the other donuts especially the muffins for breakfast the next day so while waiting to be hungry again I went to youtube, and for sure I will type “Diva 56”. Yes, I am already episode 56 just today 57. Anyway folks Diva is kantaserye (music series) TV show in one of the TV station in Philippines, and as what I expected my roomie is angry listening to “habada-bada” (Tagalog language). he called it “habada-bada” because he cannot understand my own language (I think I have to teach you sometimes sweetie). He asked me to stop it because he is busy reading, but I am too damn nosy to beg for few minutes. He said he is going to think for punishment for me, lol am I a child?
Well thanks God, I am done with the first set of the 56th episodes I didn’t watch the next episodes anymore because I have watched it already live from the streaming video in top of my blog. Tic! Tac! Tic! Tac! Someone is silent at the kitchen dunno what is he doing, and to my surprise all I found is an empty donut box. My breakfast for the next day was gone, huhuhu! He said it is my punishment, he ate the muffins that I love so much, my muffins for breakfast.Today, I woke up at 2’oclock in the afternoon. Early bird huh? I slept at 4 o’clock in the morning though, when I wake up here’s the normal me (lol) “I am hungry sweetie but someone eat my breakfast for today! He ate my box of spaghetti, my muffin and my donuts.” As what he said it is my punishment, but he told me I can go to dunkin to buy donuts again, but I am lazy to went out so as 3:30 in the afternoon I ate my brunch, fried eggs and loaf of bread.
We went to Dunkin tonight to buy donuts, he is also craving for muffins but sad to say no more muffins left. Anyway the coffee and bread at the top is the cheese muffins we both like, so cheesy and yummy! Picture was taken a weeks ago…I am using the souvenir cup from hubby’s old gym.
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I think I would love to be bored always because I can write a longer post. Tehee!
Yellow is for Banana
I have been here in South Korea for almost 11 moths going to be one year next month, and with that I never ate Filipino food since then, well I ate chicken adobo but for me it is not yet counted because the soy sauce and the taste don’t taste like the normal Filipino adobo (lol). The only thing I can eat here came from the Philippines is this banana (below), it is from Del Monte Philippines. Actually I never know it, been eating the banana for months until I have picked the banana with a company logo and there I saw it.
I know you are wondering if there is Filipino community here? When I attended a CFO seminar the interviewee told me about it but she never know what’s the address, she just told me that I a gonna reached it by subway. My cousin is working in Gumi and she told there’s Filipino food over there as well as my classmates in Daegu so I concluded Filipino community was there. I have read about Hyehwa but I was never interested about the place because I thought Hyehwa is in Daegu. Too damn lazy to look at the subway map. (lol).
Anyway Hyehwa is just in Seoul but it is now impossible for me to go there, we are not anymore in Seoul and even though we are there I cannot even go there every Sunday. As what hubby says if someone cannot adapt in a certain country you cannot live anywhere, so if I cannot adapt here in Korea I can go home to Philippines (lol) well little by little I am now adapted in Korean food and I think when I went home to Philippines my tongue will feel new to the taste. lol