bigoledude

I just did a Google search with “recipes with fish sauce” and got many links to great recipes. Here in SE Louisiana, we eat alot of rice with our seafood. Things like gumbo, jambalaya and etouffes. Whenever I make rice for eating with seafood, I add fish sauce to the water and rice while cooking. I treat fish sauce as though I were adding “essence of fish” into dishes.

My first attempt at making kimchi turned out great! Just as I finished preparing the fresh kimchi I tasted it and, it did not seem hot enough for this old Cajun. I had some “Thai Hot Pepper Powder” that I thought would work for kimchi. It’s a good thing I didn’t use that stuff only, in my kimchi. Anyway, I mixed-in a LITTLE of that Thai pepper into my just-completed kimchi and it is plenty hot enough now.

I am sooo glad that I waited to locate the correct KOREAN pepper flakes! The flavor is wonderfully different and color is perfect. It seems as though it would be okay to add some HOT pepper flakes to a single serving of kimchi. I figured if I had guests that liked it hotter, I will offer them the hot pepper.