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Easy to Make Cabbage Kimchi (Mak Kimchi) #SundaySupper

May 8, 2016

Easy to Make Cabbage Kimchi (Mak Kimchi) #SundaySupper

Thank you to Sarah Bates of The Chef Next Door for hosting today's Hot and Spicy #SundaySupper event! Have you heard of the 10,000-hour rule? Author Malcolm Gladwell theorizes that to truly master something, you will have had to log in at least 10,000 hours of practice. This theory was based on a study by Swedish psychologist Anders Ericsson. So what does this have to do with kimchi? Well, I feel like kimchi-making requires some level of practice to get to a point where it's easy to make and, most importantly, it consistently tastes awesome. When I first posted a recipe for this same dish, I had only made it a few times and it turned out a decent kimchi...50 percent of the time. Now 5 years later, I've made this particular kimchi a little less than 100 times. And if we're following the 10,000-hour rule, I've got about 9,900 hours become an expert kimchi maker. But I feel like after 5 years or about 100 hours, I've got this dish down. I've gotten rid of a couple of steps, streamlined ...

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Perilla Pancakes

October 1, 2020

Originally published September 11, 2011. I thought I'd revive this recipe for Chuseok! Happy Chuseok! The cool fall weather is here to stay and school is in full swing. It is also the end of the season for kaenip (perilla) and the leaves are fading into a yellowish light green hue. The other weekend, I plucked the remaining leaves and decided to do a few experiments after speaking with my mom. She mentioned that the older leaves tend to be a less tender and a little tougher. Sometimes she steams a bunch of leaves and makes ssam (wraps) or chops them up and makes jun (pancakes) or jang dduk, a special recipe that my mom culled from her mother that sounded really hearty and quite simply, yummy. The recipe incorporates a spoonful of dwaen jang into the batter. (I know, dwaen jang!) I've never actually had the dish before or even heard of such a thing, but the combination of the pungent salty, nutty dwaen jang, and the strong peppery, minty kaenip sounded enticing. If you ...

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Galbi Gui (Korean Beef Ribs) and Grilling Tips

Grilling galbi (or kalbi) doesn’t have to be difficult! Have a Korean barbecue right in your backyard. Plus some helpful grilling tips! You know it’s a special occasion when my mom fires up the grill. Rain or snow, she will grill up pounds of meat for platters of glistening galbi gui. Galbi gui, or more commonly…

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Video: How to Make Ddukboki

Ddukboki is a Korean spicy stir-fried rice cake dish. It’s comfort food. It’s street food. It’s damn good. And it’s best served hot. For the original post and recipe, click here. For the video, click below!

butternut squash pancake

Chuseok

Today is Chuseok or Korean Thanksgiving. It is a major multi-day holiday in Korea and is typically celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar (thank you Wikipedia). Honestly, I was never aware of this holiday while growing up as a result of my parent’s religious conviction that the ancestral worship…

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Korean Oxtail Soup (Kkori Gomtang) #SundaySupper

I am hosting this week’s Sunday Supper featuring One Pot Recipes. Throw all the ingredients into one pot and, POOF, it turns into a delectable dish. Bonus if the pot doubles as a serving vessel! There was a point in my childhood where I was no longer embarrassed about the Korean cuisine we ate at…

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It is wet, rainy, and cold here in NJ and I needed It is wet, rainy, and cold here in NJ and I needed something to warm me up! Tteokbokki hit the spot! 🎯 Fortunately had all the ingredients…except cheese! #kimchimom #lunch #tteokbokki #spicy #homemadeisbest #imadethis #kfood #koreanfood #fastfood
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We had lunch at one of our favorite Japanese resta We had lunch at one of our favorite Japanese restaurants today - @ootoyanyc. 🍱 Ordered the special and got to taste a little bit of everything - salmon sushi, soba with uni, grilled butter fish with hijiki salad, homemade tofu with ikura, and tonkatsu. It really hit the spot after a late night of revelry. #kimchimom #japanesefood #ootoya #sushi #soba #tonkatsu #nyceats
Hello weekend! Upon the request of my dear daughte Hello weekend! Upon the request of my dear daughter, we had kimchi jigae. No tofu in the house so we made do without it and added extra pork belly. 🐷 Kimchi was perfectly ripe and I was able to use leftover galbi tang broth that I had in the freezer. Jigae is quick and super easy to make! #kimchimom #kimchi #kimchijigae #koreanfood #kfood #homemadeisbest #homecooking
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I call this dish GNOCCHBOKKI! Subbed in gnocchi fo I call this dish GNOCCHBOKKI! Subbed in gnocchi for tteok. Pretty darn tasty and the kids loved it too! 
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KBBQ for dinner! Ssam with galbi! 🥬This meal is KBBQ for dinner! Ssam with galbi! 🥬This meal is so easy to make and the kids love it. I was pleasantly surprised to discover LA cut galbi at Costco a couple weeks ago! Must’ve been a special because I went back today and nada! Anyway grilled the beef I marinated, made ssamjang, washed the lettuce and BOOM, DINNER! It was also our first meal alfresco this year! 
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Smoked brisket was bussin! Kudos to the hubs who i Smoked brisket was bussin! Kudos to the hubs who is perfecting the craft. And can’t forget the kimchi…next level! 
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