...continued from previous post...photos of my Asian Garden...Edible Mums doing fantastic...Edible Mum Ssukgat Namul...essentially the BEFORE and AFTER photos. Yum! :)
2011_Aug_18_Edible_Mum_Recipe.JPG (2291.9 KB, 88 downloads) 9 months old 2011_Aug_18_Flowers_on_Edible_Mums.JPG (2242.8 KB, 92 downloads) 9 months old oh my god! My mouth is watery now! "Before and after" all look great! : )
Weekending 9/4/11: It's Friday, 9/2/11 and for dinner I made Spicy fish soup Maeuntang 매운탕 with freshly caught Pacific Ocean Kelp Greenling (aka: Sea Trout, "poor man's lobster"). My husband went fishing today and brought home the lovely fish. From the garden came the fresh radish and Edible Mums, used spicy-type of leaf lettuce (taste like radish) since my Minari has yet to grow. The soup was delicious!
The Edible Mum photo is from 8/18/11 shot but I picked a fresh harvest for the soup recipe. The mums just grow fast and furious in our area. :)
2011_Aug_18_Edible_Mum_Harvest.JPG (2157.8 KB, 109 downloads) 8 months old 2011_Sep_02_Spicy_fish_soup_1115.JPG (2287.2 KB, 97 downloads) 8 months old I love mae-un tang. I've been jones-ing for it since we had it in Chicago back in the winter. I need to get on it and make some already! I did make the mackerel/radish side dish that maangchi just posted and it is awesome. That has always been one of my husband's faves and mine too. So good! We all gobbled it up, even the kids. We rarely hear that something is too spicy anymore--and even Haneul who used to complain that kimchi was too spicy, eats kimchi without complaint now. We've indoctrinated the children well. ;)
Love that you used rabbit turds for the garden. Do you have a rabbit or several? Natural fertilizer is best. And all that organic produce! I am so jealous. Has your minari come up yet? I need to get my husband to write out his minari recipe. It is delicious. He makes it with squid and red pepper paste among other things and it is served cold. It is delicious. Minari is also good with nabak kimchi (water kimchi). I know that people use it in soup that has fish too. I'm really sad for you that your perilla leaves didn't make it this year. Our local grocer has been selling perilla leaves that they grow themselves. It's $2 for a pack of about 40 leaves and they are organic (yu-gi nong). Whenever I see produce labeled that way at our Korean market, I know that means that they grew it in their back yard. :)
I made kimchi today and shared it with our Korean friends. They have a 6 year old, 19 month old and 2 month old. Obviously the mom has very little time to make food, let alone kimchi, so they were happy to receive it. They brought us pat jook (red bean porridge) that the husband had made. They are really lovely people. I'm really glad to have met them---the husband is the same age as my hubby and they have become fast friends. I had the soybean sprout side dish, spinach side dish and perilla leaf kimchi on hand, along with the mak kimchi and mackerel side dish, so it made for a tasty meal. I'm sure my husband would say that we needed some soup to make a complete meal, but nothing was lacking for me. I've been serving all the side dishes with brown rice and it has gone over well with the kids. The girls say they like it better because it is chewy. I don't think my husband will ever prefer it, but he will eat it.
Still living more healthfully and have lost 15 pounds since mid July. I'm jogging now too and am aiming to run a 5K race in October. I have fantasies of my husband and children at the finish line smiling and yelling "Yay Mommy!" The race will be in an apple orchard, so it should be fun and hopefully not hilly.
Summer is over. Michigan apples are already in the stores and I hope to go to an orchard and pick some fresh tomorrow. In Michigan we love to have apple cider and donuts together.
What are your favorite fall foods? I love anything pumpkin. I really love hobak jook (pumpkin porridge) and I have some butternut squash that would love me to make it into hobak jook tomorrow or Monday. We are supposed to have 65 degree temps on Monday, so I think it would be a great Memorial Day treat.
Enjoy your 3 day weekend!
Hi oksipak. Hope all is well with you! Are you still harvesting veggies from your own garden? My latest adventure is making my own soymilk and tofu. I received a soymilk maker for my birthday. Today I made black bean and black sesame seed soymilk that tastes great. I still haven't perfected the flavor of regular soybean soymilk--I think many people add malt to make it taste more like commercial brands, so that is my next idea. My husband says the tofu is much better than commercially produced tofu. The tofu takes so much soymilk to make though, so I'm not sure I'll make it as often.
Hope all is well with you and you are relaxing and eating yummy food this fall weekend! I completed my first 5K in 10 years last weekend. It felt great!
You guys are really serious cooks! Great!
I hope you can share your homemade tofu recipe with us!
Hello Mokpochica, hope you recouped from the 5K, bet you are in great shape now. I've gone the opposite, gained 10lbs not because of Korean food. I've been trying other ethnic recipes and having fun. :D Wow, making your own Tofu. What a feat! I LOVE TOFU! I can eat the entire 16oz in one sitting! Way jealous! Homemade Tofu must be a true treat for your husband.
Made Mandu and Bulgogi for my honey for his birthday dinner this week. The photo is a collage of the Mandu stages. Also tried a recipe from scratch of Chocolate Ganache, put some fresh Raspberries and one candle. Yum...
One of my New Year's Resolution has been fulfilled for 2011 due to Maangchi's Korean cooking videos. Now I can make Korean food without hesitation (our main favorites: Mandu, Kimchi, Japchae, Bulgogi and among others) and there's so much more to try still.
It's 42 degrees and very sunny these days. No rain in sight. Catch you later...P.S. Fall food favorites: Spaghetti, Chili over Macaroni and Cheese, lots of soup (mainly Cabbage and Soybean Paste of Maangchi's). Anything heat hot and hot pepper stuff. :)
2011_Dec_09_Korean_Birthday_1308.JPG (2197.2 KB, 59 downloads) 5 months old Mandu_Stages.jpg (752.9 KB, 48 downloads) 5 months old Hi Oksipak and Mokpochica,
Oksipak,
“One of my New Year's Resolution has been fulfilled for 2011 due to Maangchi's Korean cooking videos.“
You won’t believe how much I’m impressed by this. Now you can make Korean food without hesitation. This is great news and makes me very happy. I’m sure everybody who has been reading your Korean cooking experience was so excited about your completed mission. All I can say is: “congratulations to you!”
Re: Mokpochica,
“I completed my first 5K in 10 years last weekend. It felt great!”
You make me feel great, too!
Congratulations!!!
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Weekending December 16, 2011: It's Friday and tonight I made a batch of Spicy fermented cabbage and spicy fermented radish / 김치, 깍두기. Also during the week Rolled omelette (Gyeran malyee: 계란 말이) was on the breakfast menu. Only 2 more weeks until the New Year 2012! Where did the time go?
Thanks for the Congrats Maangchi. :)
2011_Dec_16_Kimchi_Maangchi_Recipe_Hot.jpg (2265.6 KB, 60 downloads) 5 months old 2011_Dec_16_Kimchi_Maangchi_Recipe_Hot.jpg (2171.6 KB, 42 downloads) 5 months old Merry Christmas Maangchi and Mokpochica and all who are Friends of Maangchi. :) Yesterday I had some kimchi for a snack, then for Christmas I had some more kimchi for snack. Tomorrow I have to go shopping and buy cabbage and radishes to make more kimchi! :P
Merry_Christmas.gif (48.4 KB, 29 downloads) 5 months old Thank you oksipak! I love the photo of "Merry Christmas!" You are eating kimchi for snack now. : )
It's Thursday, December 29, 2011, and only a few days before the new year! So what do I do? I tried making dakbokkeumtang (http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/dakbokkeumtang) and boy was it delicious. It's been raining cats-and-dogs here and comfort food like this recipe was much needed. I refrained from making a pig of myself by eating the entire pot in one sitting! By the way, I only made 1/2 the batch, for 2 servings, so if I ate that it wouldn't have been that bad. Right?
This will most likely be my last Korean recipe I try before the New Year 2012 arrives and what a way to end 2011. See you all in the new year to try some more new recipes from Maangchi. :D
2011_Dec_29_Dakbokkeumtang_Spicy_Brais.jpg (3637.6 KB, 29 downloads) 4 months old Hi oksipak! I was just thinking of you because I watched the mandu video. I'm going to either make mandu or jjimbbang mandu during my vacation from work. I'm also reminded by your post that I've been wanting to make bulgogi stew. I've been watching the Kimchi Chronicles (got the DVD for Christmas) and it was featured on there. And I think on Jamie Frater's food fan page he said it was one of his best dishes, so I've been wanting to try it since then.
All of your food looks fantastic. I just ate a big dinner, but it still is making my mouth water. I love chocolate cake like the one you made. I don't think I've actually ever made a cake like that. I should put that on my list too. The mac and cheese with chili sounds awesome and I'm not usually that into mac and cheese.
I definitely have gained a lot of confidence in my cooking skills over the past year. I know what you mean about "making Korean food without hesitation" I didn't make Korean food for a long time after my husband thought I couldn't even make ramen noodles well after an unfortunate overcooked ramen noodle incident, but I'm so glad that I finally gave it a real go. I still need to use a recipe for most of what I make, but I've even gotten to a point where I can make many simple panchan/ side dish recipes from memory.
We've also been enjoying some delicious Korean food lately. We had braised chicken with vegetables last week and tonight we had kongnamulbap (soybean sprouts bibimbap). My hubby has taken over with the kimchi making for the most part, which has been nice. I have been making yogurt, homemade bread, and soymilk so we won't have to buy any of those anymore and so we can eat less processed stuff. I also make tofu quite a bit.
I've lost 25 pounds now, but I am stuck. One of my New Year's Resolutions is to keep the house stocked with side dishes so I can eat Korean food more often. I've been eating so much salad lately and I'm tired of it. It was o.k. for a while, but especially as the weather has gotten cold, I need something heartier and warmer and Korean food is it for me. Satisfying and healthy.
Happy New Year! Hope that you and your family will have good health and find happiness in all your endeavors this year. And I hope to keep up our online friendship. It's been great reading your inspirational posts. I'll try to post more pictures of my food in 2012. How's that for a resolution? :)
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