Monthly Archives: October 2013

Japchae

  I made japchae for the first time and it turned out great, yummy~ I made it without meat and white mushrooms, I put extra shiitake mushrooms in it and it’s delicious ^^ Served with red rice and kimchi. The recipe is here.

200,000 YouTube subscribers

Last night my YouTube channel reached 200,000 subscribers!

Hoddeok with Pumpkin Cajeta filling and pecans

I made filling for pumpkin cajeta empanadas and made hotteok using Maangchi’s recipe. They were delicious and the filling was easy to work with. If you like pumpkin and caramel, you will want to give these a try. I prefer hotteok the traditional way, but this was a fun and yummy experiment. I would make […]

Delicious Japchae!

  I made japchae today! yum yum! The recipe is here! 

Jjajangmyeon & kimchi – a quick and delicious dinner.

Just finished cooking jjajangmyeon and it’s now ready to eat – with some kimchi of course! The recipe is here.

파전 Pajeon

Green onion pancake is so delicious and easy to make. I was craving it today, so I whipped one right up. The recipe is here.

November 2013 Los Angeles meetup & potluck!

Hello Los Angeles Korean food lovers! It’s been a while since we met! My last meetup in LA was 3 years ago, but I’ll be in town this November, so let’s have a meetup and potluck party! My longtime reader Ashley has offered to have the meetup in her house in the Tarzana area of […]

Tuna Sandwich

I’m very happy to share my tuna sandwich recipe with you today. I’ve been making this simple but delicious sandwich for years and years, even when I lived in Korea. Western-style sandwiches are popular in Korea for lunchbox items.  Every time I made them my friends in Korea wanted to know the recipe, and as […]

my first kimchijeon!

  Cutting up my first kimchijeon. I can’t believe how easy & delicious this is! The recipe is here.

Kongbiji jigae (Ground soybean stew)

My husband was surprised when I proposed to cook kongbiji jigae for him. He said last time he had it it was in some restaurant in Seoul way long ago. I marinated the pork in kimchi juice to add in more flavor, and the dish was soooooo tasteful. Perfect for a chilly weather in October! […]

Soondubu jjigae

The recipe is here.

Kimbap

The recipe is here.

kkongchijorim improvised~

  Last time I cooked kkongchijorim, my korean boyfriend loved it a lot. Now my boyfriend has become my fiance, and I’m trying a upgraded version of the jorim. I replaced green onion with coriander, and I added soju to the paste. Before finishing, I spread on some bean sprouts and had them steamed by […]

Hoddeok

My first time making hoddeok. The recipe is here.

Jjinppang Mandu

I made beautiful Jjinppang mandu! Making this shape perfectly was difficult, but I was singing along to the music in the cooking video and it encouraged me. The recipe is here.