What did you cook/eat today (April 2018)?

[medtran49]

Mudbug, aka crawfish, boil with corn, potatoes, mushrooms, onions, and homemade andouille sausage. Some good size bugs, that's over half an ear of fresh corn in bowl.

 

[buckytom]

Is this basically: meat with gochujang, or do you make your own sauce?

It is a bbq marinade that has a little gochujang in it for heat, but otherwise it's also a little sweet. I buy the marinade in a jar, but it's easy to make. From the ingredients on the jar: Pear puree, sugar, tomato paste, salt, gochujang, ginger, garlic powder, sesame oil, worcestershire sauce, onion powder, black pepper, and red pepper powder.

The pork was very thinly sliced and marinated in it overnight. It should be grilled, but a squirrel decided to make his home in my grill this spring, so I haven't had time to clean it. I just pan seared the pork.

It is eaten on a lettuce leaf with ssamjang (seasoned soybean paste) and shredded scallions.

Like this:

 

[buckytom]

Mudbug, aka crawfish, boil with corn, potatoes, mushrooms, onions, and homemade andouille sausage. Some good size bugs, that's over half an ear of fresh corn in bowl.
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Oh man, now I'm hungry again. That looks fantastic.

 

[buckytom]

I didn't get pictures of all of the side dishes, called banchan, but here's various steamed and seasoned veggies. (spicy bean sprouts, pickled cukes, steamed Korean spinach - served cold, and julienned sweet radish)

And squid jerky in sweet sauce:

A few shots as I was setting up.

Fish cakes and seaweed salad:

Kimchee and sweet squid jerky

 

[Yorky]

My afternoon snack (prior to FP3) is a little boring after those presentations. There was a little "tater tot" mixture left so I shallow fried that as a "cake" with sausages, toast and beans.

 

[Morning Glory]

I didn't get pictures of all of the side dishes, called banchan, but here's various steamed and seasoned veggies. (spicy bean sprouts, pickled cukes, steamed Korean spinach - served cold, and julienned sweet radish)

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And squid jerky in sweet sauce:

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A few shots as I was setting up.

Fish cakes and seaweed salad:

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Kimchee and sweet squid jerky

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If only I could buy these things here! I would have to make all from scratch.

 

[Lullabelle]

Lunch today, my husband made an 'everything in it' frittata. Potatoes peppers, mushrooms, onion, green beans and chorizo, fresh herbs.

 

[Lullabelle]

Mudbug, aka crawfish, boil with corn, potatoes, mushrooms, onions, and homemade andouille sausage. Some good size bugs, that's over half an ear of fresh corn in bowl.
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Big bugs

 

[buckytom]

If only I could buy these things here! I would have to make all from scratch.

You probably can get a lot of the ingredients to make them. If you ever get the itch to try, the best site that I know of for down to earth instructions to make Korean food is www.maangchi.com

 

[buckytom]

In keeping with the Asian theme, lunch today was noodles and kombu in homemade dashi.

I think this is the best hot lunch I make in under 5 minutes (noodles were frozen, only need to be brought to a boil in the dashi).

 

[Morning Glory]

In keeping with the Asian theme, lunch today was noodles and kombu in homemade dashi.

I think this is the best hot lunch I make in under 5 minutes (noodles were frozen, only need to be brought to a boil in the dashi).View attachment 15770

Vegetarian or even vegan?

 

[Morning Glory]

Yet another deep-fred egg for the Cookalong:

It started like this - poached or rather coddled in my new toy (see here at the top in the middle) with basil and chilli

And then it got breadcrumbed and deep fried:

And yippee - the yolk was runny:

 

[The Velvet Curtain]

Woohoo! At last I have found a local source of unripe Papaya.

So with tonight's Massaman Curry, my favourite Green Papaya Salad.

 

[Morning Glory]

Woohoo! At last I have found a local source of unripe Papaya.

So with tonight's Massaman Curry, my favourite Green Papaya Salad.

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Splendid! Do you have your own recipe for Masaman curry?

 

[The Velvet Curtain]

Splendid! Do you have your own recipe for Masaman curry?

I do have my own recipe, I may not have used it this evening