tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91863084806050358562026-03-29T12:31:19.811-04:00rach's food adventures, recipes, travel, and anecdotesRach Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03574378941048592822noreply@blogger.comBlogger1229125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186308480605035856.post-85720434378478980472023-06-19T07:00:00.000-04:002023-06-19T07:00:00.143-04:00

We had a pretty successful haul of pepper plants from our garden last year and I made this pepper jelly but never shared the recipe. This year, I planted loads of pepper plants but because it's been so chilly at night, they haven't been thriving as well as in previous years. We'll see how they do and whether I can make any batches of pepper jelly with the Shishito, poblano, jalapeno, Anaheim,

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This post is a little belated but still worth sharing, I think. Thanksgiving and my birthday collided this year, as it does every so often, and I got to spend it doing what I love: cooking.We kept it small, as we do every year, and stuck to the classics: dry brined turkey, mashed potatoes, skillet mac and cheese, traditional stuffing (like the Pepperidge farm bagged kind), green bean casserole,

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This summer has been pretty awesome in terms of weather. It's the first summer in years that I can remember it actually cooling down at night instead of staying blistering hot 24/7. Despite that, I still crave cooling dishes that remind me that it's summer.Ingredients:1 lb. radish or cabbage5 scallions5 cloves garlic1" piece ginger1 tablespoon red pepper paste¼ cup salt6 to 8 cups weter1 to 2

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Okay, so I made this dish during the summer but I got lazy and never published it and here we are like half a year later. I actually have half a dozen posts queued up to be written (photos are all edited and ready to go) but I've just been in that pandemic slump lately and unmotivated to do anything other than lie around like just a slobby piece of garbage. Obviously this situation isn't helped

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Happy Thanksgiving! This year was lower key than usual. We streamlined the menu to just the classic standards. My cousin and her husband came to cook with us and I made a yummy treat for our dogs to enjoy as well.It was relaxing and delicious and fingers crossed that we are well and truly almost at the other side of this pandemic.xoxo.

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This year, I sort of kicked my gardening into a higher gear. Normally, I plan on buying loads of plants from the nursery but this year, I started everything from seed. I also asked my dad to build me a fully enclosed garden (that I designed but he modified because the price of wood was insane - and it's only getting more insane) to keep the squirrels and chipmunks at bay. On top of that, I have

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I have a gyro pita recipe that I haven't actually made probably since I wrote that post. But, during quarantine when I was craving gyro, I made it and remembered how delicious it is and I'm realizing I have to bring it back into rotation more often.I'm thinking it would be extra delicious crisped up on the charcoal grill.xoxo.

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There's a little Mexican eatery in my town called 'Delicias Latinas' that is truly delicious. We love patronizing this spot because it's a lovely small business and they do wonderful food and we want to support that vibe. I love their maduros (sweet plantains) that they dress up with melted cheese and cream, their hot sauces are so good, and I really love their empanadas.Whilst grocery shopping,

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During quarantine, my aunt in Korea mailed us a package with all of the ingredients to make Korean hot pepper paste, a.k.a. gochujang. She sent it along with a little recipe pamphlet and my sister and I spent an evening stirring together a cauldron of burgundy goop.The process was fun and the resultant sauce was actually really delicious. Not so profoundly better than the premade stuff (and

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One of my favorite dishes to order at Korean restaurants is the hot pot bibimbap, mainly because we didn't really have a way of making it at home. Well, we did, I just wasn't motivated enough to do it. But, since over the past year, we've had v. little occasion to leave the house and I had a craving, I found myself with the ambition to make dolsot bibimbap at home.Frankly, it's an awesome way to

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We love fresh popped popcorn in our house. In the past, we had an air popper but it was so bland that we started popping corn on the stove in a small saucepan but the yield was always so meager. So, for Christmas, I bought a Whirly Pop using a several-years-old Williams Sonoma gift card that I'd gotten as a rebate for my ice cream maker.My favorite savory seasonings for popcorn are Trader Joe's

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I love a dish that just gets chucked in the oven and forgotten about for a bit and turns out delicious. So when I found a brisket on sale at the grocery store and let that slow roast along with these melting potatoes and the resultant meal was so comforting and homey.These melting potatoes have been all over the internet and they're so good. They get golden brown and crisp on the outside but are

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 So last week, I shared an Indian lamb curry. Well, as part of that elaborate meal, I wanted an equally effort-full dessert so I ended up making gulab jamun. Gulab jamun is one of my favorite desserts in general. I love the sweet syrup, the fried donuts, and the crunchy pistachios on top. I was introduced to this dessert in college by a friend's professor who made a huge Indian spread and

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Over the past year, it's been pretty tedious and hard to mix up our meals. There are only so many dishes I'm capable of cooking and there are only so many dishes that work as takeout. I started making these really extra videos to share on Instagram stories (that I titled a "Strega Nona" series) featuring more elaborate dishes that required a bit of a time commitment.One week, I ended up making an

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There's a Mediterranean restaurant in my town that makes really good kebabs and rice and their salad is also really bomb. But my favorite thing they do is a stuffed pita bread that they call "marina bread." The stuffing is a spicy tomato sauce with sweet onion slices and the whole thing is toasted over coals so the pita gets crisp and it's so good.I decided to try my hand at making my own at home

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When I went to Germany two Christmases ago, I didn't think I'd be that enthused about the food. Turns out, it was a pretty delicious country to eat my way around. While I was in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, I got some spaetzle at a food stand in the Christmas market that was prepared like mac & cheese and it was so delicious.I haven't made any German food on my blog; frankly, I haven't made much

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This isn't necessarily an authentic boeuf bourguignon recipe. There was a two-thirds full bottle of red wine in the fridge leftover from a while back and I wanted to use it up. I was kind of trying to do a riff on the ox tongue stew that I had at Kichi Kichi in Kyoto and ended up making this super rich, meaty, hearty brisket that didn't quite fit the bill but still hit the spot.Ingredients [

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There's a Whole Foods near my office that I'll sometimes pop into to buy random ingredients that aren't available at my usual grocery store (like rosewater; the reason I needed rosewater will be shared in a couple of weeks). While I was there a little while ago, I noticed a lovely selection of mushrooms and decided I wanted to make a fresh, cheesy pasta with loads of crispy mushroom. I don't have

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The first time I had a fried whole fish was actually at a Vietnamese restaurant. Our favorite Vietnamese restaurant in a nearby town actually closed a few years ago, but not due to unpopularity; rather, we heard a developer bought the plot of land. Anyway, we'd been dining in rather often, always getting the same few dishes: pho, bun bo hue, and spring rolls. But one day, we saw a family sharing

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I'm not a fan of root beer but I love ginger beer. I particularly enjoy ones that lean more spicy and assertive in its fresh ginger flavor. I've been trying out loads of different brands, trying to figure out which one I like best. Most recently, I tried Cock 'N Bull brand, which I thought was pretty delicious. I've been loving having ginger beer as a happy hour mocktail.I started this year "dry"

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The pasta maker has been getting a lot more love these past few months. I think more than any sort of pasta craving, I've just been finding the process of making dough and rolling it through the machine to be a therapeutic process. This is a 'What I Ate' post, which means after the jump, it's basically wordless and just a conglomeration of photos. If you're interested in making this, I have a

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My sister asked me to make donuts for Christmas, so I did. I probably make these yeasted donuts a few times a year. They're pretty simple and now that we have a stand mixer, the dough is quick to whip up. It's mostly standby time for proofing of the dough.My suggestion is to get up first thing in the morning to make the dough, let it go through its first proof while you go back to bed to

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I was on a kick of making "Sunday roasts" for a few weeks when the cold weather finally hit. I think I was just excited that I could have the oven on without melting to death. But, there's only so much one can do with chicken and beef so when I saw a pork loin at the grocery store, I decided to make a play on porchetta. I didn't want to do the whole deal with pork belly and the works; after all,

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This is a cake I made last summer and I'm only getting around to posting it now. I went on a hike with my Philly cousins and picked wild blueberries. Our haul was so impressive, we still currently have a tub in the freezer.One of my favorite things I ended up making from our stash was a mashup of a blueberry cake with crumb cake. I added a layer of quick jam in between the cake and the crumbs and

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Back in 2019 (pre-pandemic life) I visited Korea for a weekend to see some family and one afternoon we went to Gwangjang Market, namely because we wanted to get kalguksu from the lady featured on Netflix's Street Food) and while we were there, we also got bindaedduk, which is a savory pancake made with loads of stuff.It's relatively easy to recreate at home, though, it'll never taste as good

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