Everyday
New Years Day Soup: Rice Cake & Dumpling Soup
Rice cake soup (tteokguk) is a traditional Korean New Year’s day soup. In the morning of New Year’s day, we eat a bowl of rice cake soup to celebrate getting a year older. The clean broth and white color of rice cake signifies purity and clean start of a new year. Usually the day before, [...]
Mung Bean Pancakes: Bindaedduk
This pancake is one of my favorite snack/appetizer to make. It’s simple, healthy and so delicious. Usually it’s made with pork as well, but I like to make mine meat and gluten free. How about making this for Korean New Year next week? Ingredients: Makes 8 pancakes (appetizer portion) 1 cup mung beans hulled 2 [...]
Mushroom Tangsooyook
Chinese style Korean food has always been very popular in Korea. I grew up eating Jjajangmyun (hand-pulled noodle with black bean sauce) and Jjamppong (spicy seafood noodle soup) as my parents would let me order in when they were working late or when my friends are over our house. It was always delivered in this [...]
Treats
Cinnamon Ginger Tea (Sujungkwa)
If you are a Korean food lover and have been to a few Korean restaurants in the city, you would have noticed that cold sweet tea they serve at the end of your meal. That’s called Sujungkwa, cinnamon ginger tea we traditionally serve as a dessert tea. But to be honest, growing up, my parents [...]
Tourte au Potiron
If you are looking for a dish that can be savory and sweet for this Thanksgiving dinner, this is the one. This french version of pumpkin pie is filled with savory Kabocha squash that is lightly sweetened with brown sugar and raisins. It is flaky outside, soft and creamy inside like pumpkin pie should be. [...]
