It’s from a special kind of Korean pine tree.
My ingredients:
- Abalone
- Apple vinegar
- Asian chives
- Bamboo shoots
- Barley
- Barley malt powder
- Black bean paste
- Black sesame seeds
- Black sweet rice
- Buckwheat noodles
- Butternut squash
- Cinnamon
- Clams
- Corn syrup
- Cornish hen
- Crushed chili peppers
- Daikon radish
- Dill cucumber
- Dried anchovies
- Dried persimmons
- Edible chrysanthemum
- Eggplant
- Enoki mushrooms
- Fernbrake
- Fish cakes
- Fish sauce
- Fresh ginseng
- Frozen rice flour
- Garlic stems
- Ginger
- Green chili peppers
- Ground pork
- Hot pepper flakes
- Hot pepper paste
- Jja jjang myun noodles
- Jujubes
- Kelp
- Korean perilla leaves
- Korean radish
- Laver
- Mandu skins
- Mugwort powder
- Mung beans
- Mustard powder
- Napa cabbage
- Oyster sauce
- Perilla seeds powder (deulkkae garu)
- Pickled radish
- Pine needles
- Pine nuts
- Pork belly
- Potato starch
- Red beans
- Red chili peppers
- Rice cake
- Roasted soy bean powder
- Roe
- Salted shrimp
- Sea plant (miyuk)
- Seafood medley
- Seaweed for samgak kimbap
- Sesame oil
- Sesame seeds
- Shiitake mushrooms
- Shredded red pepper
- Sliced rice cake
- Soft tofu
- Soy sauce
- Soybean paste
- Soybean sprouts
- Soybeans
- Squid
- Starch noodles
- Sweet potatoes
- Sweet rice
- Sweet rice flour
- Tofu
- Turbinado sugar
- Water dropwort
- White oyster mushrooms
- Wood ear mushrooms
- Young summer radish
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Interesting that just like “Korean grapes”, these come from a special “Korean pine tree”.
I grew up eating these and “Korean Grapes”. (I grew up in New Mexico and Texas.) I don’t think there is anything particularly Korean about them. Pine nuts, aka piñon, do come from a pine tree. But I’m pretty sure that Costco is not importing them from Korea (but hey, I could be wrong….I haven’t read the package to see if they list the origin of their product.) They are native to North America and Europe as well as Asia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinon_nut
Just had to say something since all my Korean friends keep saying “Here, want some Korean Grapes?” LOL But I do really love both the “Korean Grapes” and piñon. And Korean food is my favorite. I can only cook KimChi Chigae right now, so I’ll be watching your vids to see if I can learn some more.