OMG, Let's Eat

Putting the love back into homey cooking

It's been awhile since the first time I posted pictures through my expedition of making Korean food, but let me warn you this, I have not stopped, not even close. On the contrary, I think I've regained some of the mystery, fun, and gratification in learning to cook from the beginning of this summer. Cheers to hoping that I won't get too lazy when I'm off in college to cook. A cooking addiction, now that can be anything, but bad right?


The Korean version of Sushi! It's Kimbap, but I don't mind referring to it as sushi...they're just like cousins :) This is amazingly fun to make, but a pain to cut into pieces.


These were rolled with kimchi, and these I didn't cut up since you can just eat it like a metal pole. Oh I lost my bamboo rollers so I used my hands instead, they're chubby looking, but not so bad huh? >_<


I also made bebimbap awhile ago, bebim means 'mix' I think and bap = rice. The beef, vegetables, and mushroom took a fair amount of time to cook, but worth the full experience of poking your chopsticks into 8 different ingredients.


(A) Please blindsight your eyes to our frog-colored, plant patterned tablecloth. And (b) Grab a little of everything to put on top of your rice. There's also suppose to be an egg on top, but I made too many egg sidedishes that week so I ran out, ops.


Before eating, bebimbap requires messing up the food you nicely stacked together moments ago. Sadly, beauty can never be preserved, oh well, at least I get to fill my stomach.


This past week I acquired some beef steaks and finally got to make the much-desired bulgogi, korean bbq! So here's what happened to the beef...


This is the mocha-swirl like marinade, it contains half an asian pear, only after it was beaten to a green/brown pulp.


This is Actually how it's suppose to look after the beef sits in the fridge overnight, transforming it from a lake-algae look to a septic swamp.


I pan fried the final result, but I think it would taste better if grilled, and I also made that kimchi.

I'll be trying another genre of food to make after I'm over my Korean phase. Also I'd be happy to cook for anyone of you guys! It's really fun for me, but the only downside is all that mess behind the camera.
Credits to Maangchi, for her amazing website which includes the recipes for all this.

Food, an alternate cure to Love

I love food. Food makes you happy, scientifically, through chemicals and endorphins, but I also believe the right foods can please the soul and sate a deep desire. Not just hunger. One of the best foods we can enjoy is the food we make ourselves. Scroll down as I unveil the best use of my time this summer.

Well all the food I've been making is Korean-related, it's a new obsession. This is Gye ran mal-e (Korean Egg Rolls).


I saw this being made at a Korean grocery mart, but I have my suspicions that this is a lot like Japanese soba. The people there just called it Korean cold noodles haha.


These potatoes got mixed reviews from my family. I didn't like it as much as they did. This one is called Gamja Jorim (potato side dish).


Another potato dish, Gamjachae bokkeum. This one was pretty good :). It has big king oyster mushrooms, so everything looks white.

I've mostly been making easy side dishes, no main courses except for one, which gave my sister...nvm, so I shall not dare to post pictures for that. Korean cooking is really fun, I made these from recipes from youtube.com search "maangchi"!