Today’s Korean Breakfast Menu is Siraegi-guk, Korean Steamed Eggs and Spinach Tofu Muchim. During my stay, my mom has been routinely cooking these banchans for breakfast. And I’ve been enjoying them so much! I put the recipes on film so I could replicate it back in Korea. Each of these dishes (besides the steamed eggs)…
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Dinner Banchans 3: Classic Miso Soup, Oiji Korean Pickles & Crispy Eggplant Tots
Dinner Banchans 3. Tonight, we get creative with our dinner banchans. Let’s start by making Japanese Miso Soup – the traditional way. Pair that with a Korean-style pickled banchan. And since it’s dinner, add something deep-fried. Skip to Recipe Japanese Miso Soup Until now, we have been using anchovy and kelp as our main ingredients…
Korean Potato Soup and Grilled Sole
Korean Potato Soup and Grilled Sole. Takes me back to my mother’s cooking. Skip to Recipe There’s one thing that I really enjoy about visiting my parents. For breakfast, my mom loves to cook fish. On my last visit, she was cooking alot of sole. I remember it being so delicious. Very crispy skin. Perfectly…
Shrimp Fried Rice – with Korean Danmuji & Mini Sausages
Shrimp Fried Rice. Nope – you can’t go wrong with fried rice! It’s a good choice for new home cooks. If you haven’t tried any of our recipes yet, I would nudge you to try this one 😉 Skip to Recipe With fried rice, you always need side-dishes to munch on. Here are a few…
Korean Style Pork Ribs & Korean Radish Salad
Korean Style Pork Ribs. This is one of my favorite ways to eat baby back ribs! Sticky, succulent…well you’ll need some napkins 🙂 Today we will pair it a bowl of refreshing Korean Radish Salad. Skip to Recipe In Seoul, most families live in apartments. Since we don’t have backyards or patios, we don’t have…
Korean Chicken Skewers and Yuja Salad
Korean Chicken Skewers. If you have visited Seoul in the last five years, you will be quite familiar with this street food. It’s called Dakkochi. And its become one of the most popular street food in Korea. Skip to Recipe Most street vendor have come up with their own sauces. Some add curry powder. Some…
Dotorimuk, Beansprout Rice & Grilled Beef
Korean dinners are typically well-balanced. A good mix of fresh vegetables, meat and some rice. Here is an example of a Korean dinner meal that I cooked for myself after a trip abroad. Skip to Recipe I spent the last two weeks in Vietnam, taking a food tour from the north (Hanoi) down to the…
Bacon Garlic Fried Rice and Minced Beef Tofu
Bacon Garlic Fried Rice and Minced Beef Tofu. We wanted to begin introducing simple asian-inspired dinners for the workdays. Dinner recipes which taste great and could make up for a bad day at work 😉 Skip to Recipe Like most, I am a big fan of bacon and garlic. So its a no brainer to…
Korean Diet Banchans – Chicken, Broccoli, Tofu dishes
Jumbo. That was my best friend’s nickname in high school. He was big-boned, consistently over 250 lbs. And that’s how I’ve always known him to be. But when I Skype’d with Jumbo last week, it was obvious that he had succeeded in a major body transformation. In fact, he had slimmed down to 180lbs. I…
