This recipe is for mushroom lovers! I love any kind of mushrooms. Their earthy flavor, savory taste and most of all their texture, a little crispy and chewy at the same time. This recipe is for stir fried oyster mushrooms, which really shows off these mushrooms’ taste and texture and is a little nutty from […]
So many people entered my contest to win one of 100 Korean readymade meal packages. 31,766 people exactly! I used random.org to choose 100 winners and let them know they won. They were pretty excited, which also made me excited! Out of that 100 people, 4 people never responded to me, even after I emailed […]
Today’s recipe is my all-time favorite quick emergency side dish, seasoned seaweed sheets (gim-muchim 김무침). Sometimes when I want something easy to make and eat, and all I have on hand is kimchi, this is a side dish I can make fast and then serve with kimchi and rice. It’s basically just toasted gim mixed […]
The contest is closed. The winners have been contacted. Please check your email to see if you won! You have 5 days to answer (until midnight EST August 16th), if I don’t hear from you in that time I’ll have to choose someone else. August 14th 12:40pm EST update – I am still waiting to […]
An easy Korean spicy tuna stew made with canned tuna, gochujang, and gochugaru. It cooks in just 15 minutes and is delicious served ssam-style with rice, lettuce, and apple ssamjang.
This classic Korean street food recipe is not all that old, but it supports endless variations and room to experiment. It’s a hot, sweet, sour, juicy and crispy sandwich usually made right in front of you in a street stall on the go. Here’s how to make it at home — don’t skimp on the shredded cabbage!
I’ve been getting a lot of great feedback from my last recipe, healthy vegetable rice bowl, because so many people are staying at home and cooking with their families these days. More and more people are interested in easy, nutritious, and delicious meals so I came up with this idea to make kimchi hand-torn noodle […]
I’m going to introduce you to Korean style fruit salad which is very simple and easy to make! This cold, sweet, crispy and nutty salad has a real unique flavor and set of textures. When you chew a spoonful it will please your mouth totally, especially when you break the peanuts! This is a salad […]
Hello everybody! Today’s recipe is for Korean style oxtail soup (called sokkoritang: 소꼬리탕 in Korean)! Many of you have requested this recipe over years but eventually today’s the day that I release it! It’s one of my new cookbook recipes, so some of you who have my book will be excited to open the page! […]
This time I will introduce you to bok choy tofu doenjangguk. Doenjangguk is a soup made with Korean fermented soybean paste (doenjang) and a staple of Korean cuisine. This recipe is made with tofu and bok choy but there are many different types made with different ingredients. The one constant, unskippable ingredient is doenjang, which […]
Time for something crunchy outside and soft and chewy inside! : ) Let’s make gimmari! Gimmari are crispy seaweed noodle rolls, a snack food that is popular with Korean street vendors and also sold frozen in Korean grocery stores. They’re made of glass noodles rolled in seaweed paper (gim) and then deep fried. Today I’m […]
These cold, spicy noodles served on a large platter, called jaengban-guksu, were a really trendy in Korea when my children were young. They were all over the media and my friends and I all made them for our families. When developing this recipe I asked my daughter if she remembered me making this for her […]
Today I’m introducing you to my family’s all time favorite dish, haemuljeon, a Korean pancake made with a few different kinds of seafood. Growing up in a harbor city on the southern coast of South Korea, every meal table was abundant with seafood. The traditional open air market was very close to my house so […]
Today’s recipe is spicy beef and vegetable soup, called dakgaejang. It’s a delicious hot and spicy soup, and with just one small chicken you can feed a lot of people. That’s good value! And if you’re making it for yourself just freeze the leftovers and eat them for a while. If you made my yukgaejang […]
