Garlic and Onion: February 2010

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Bi-bim-bab

This is Bibimbab-Korean dish.
Mix your rice with various vegetables, egg, and meat.
You can use chili-paste(Go-chu-jang) for this, I found that regular sauce is too spicy, so I made a less spicy one.

Chilly-sauce(Go-chu-jang)
Ingredient

Gochujang 4Tb
honey 2Tb
(if you don't have honey, use sugar instead, but in this case, you cannot keep the sauce in your fridge, it will be hard)
Asian pear, grounded 2Tb
( I did not have this, so I used grounded Pineapple 2Tb)
Grounded beef 4Tb
water 6 Tb

How to make?
1. Put some oil on the pan(any vegy oil, I used olive oil), and cook meat first.
2. When meat is ready drain oil from meat.
3. put gochujang, honey, pear in to the pan and mix well with meat.
4. Put them on the pan again and pour water on it, and boil it until it reduced and little thick.

now, the sauce for bi-bim bab is ready. we could make main dish.

BiBimBab

Ingredient
(this totally depends on what you have in your fridge on that day)
onion, zucchini, bean-sprout, spinach, carrot, lettuce, mushroom, ground beef.

1. Put your rice on.
2. Slice vegitables.
3. cook carrots without oil on the pan, low heat. You just want to dry them, not fry them.
4. cook onion with olive oil, cook zucchni, and mushroom as well.
5. steam bean sprout(using salt water), steam spinach as well.
6.cook beef
7.cook egg.

See, it is really simple,
you could easily skip any vegitables, or add any.
sometimes I like to put different kinds of mushroom rather than using meat.

Anyways, now we are all ready to eat.
Lets put 1-2TB spoon of sauce on the top, one spoon of sesame oil, and mix well.

It is yummy and healthy.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Shrimp stuffed mushroom

Ingredients:

parmigiano reggiano
1 small Onion, finely chopped
20-25 large Mushrooms, stems removed
20-25 large shrimps, peeled, finely chopped(does not matter cooked or uncooked)
8 large Mushroom stems, finely chopped

How to make?
Directions:

1.Saute onion and mushroom stems in olive oil until tender.
2.Mix chopped shrimps, onion and mushroom stems.
3.Put little bit of flour on the top of the each mushroom,
4.Stuff each mushroom,put thinly sliced cheese on each mushroom
5.bake at 180c deg. for 10-15 minutes.

bbq(hot) sauce wings

I was very very happy last night after watching Olympics games on Saturday,

Koreans won 4 medals total (1Gold, 2Silver, 1Bronze) from short-track speed skating!

Anyways, I was in a perfect mood to cook at 11:00pm.

So, I did.

ingredients:

one pack of chicken wings(12pcs)

2Tb butter

marinating

1.5Tb spoon soy sauce

2Tb spoon white wine

Any steak spices( I used Steak bifteck)little bit

little black pepper

bbq sauce
chopped garlic 1Tb spoon

chopped onion 1Tb Spoon

olive oil 3Tb spoon

ketchup4Tb

hot sauce 0.5tb (tea spoon)

sugar 3T

Worcestershire sauce 2.5Tb

How to make it?!Very simple

1. Put wings in the zip lock bag or Tupperware, then mix well with marinating ingredients, set them in the fridge for 20-30mins

2. put the pan on the low heat, then melt 2 TB butter on it

3. take wings out, and spread them on the pan

4. We want to cook chickens fully, so, you need to keep it on the low low heat and put the top on.

5. When you wait until your chicken is ready, chop garlic and onions and set them aside.

6. mix bbq sauces in a bowl , if you want more taste of spicy, put more hot sauce( I could not do that, since my Sweet P is wimpy). You could use honey instead of sugar.

7. When chickens are ready, use another pan, and put olive oil(3TB), and cook garlic and onions first. You don't want to burn them! so use low-medium heat.

8.When onions are transparent, and garlic smells good, it is the right time to pour bbq sauces on the top.

9.simmer sauce 3-5min, otherwise, it will be too sour. if you like to keep sour taste you don't need to wait long time.

10. Put wings back to the pan, mix well.

They are ready to eat!!!

Friday, February 19, 2010

Student's life.

I became a student as I entered elementary school in 1990 March.

In my home country, we started grade 1, when we are 6 or 7, and it is March! Since March is the first month of spring, and spring is the beginning of the new life!! ha ha ha.

Anyways, since then, I never stopped schooling, and as I entered University in 2001, March.

This year is the 10 years anyversary to be a univesity student!

I decided to pursue a PhD degree, and that was the real reason to move to Canada. Anyways, I wil talk about my schooling more later.

Now, I am just the Second year PhD, still need to do 2-3years more studying(or more!!!)

Anyways,

that is my regular days' desk.

I got my desk from Cost-co 5 years ago, i payed only $100 (canadian dollars before taxes), and I think it is almost the right time to change a desk.

oh my, my house is so so so messy right after exam. Yes, Phds are still taking mid-terms and finals. :p

Anyways, today, I just wanted to complain little bit that I am still at school, but I know that my life is pretty good. I am just a lucky person who can to what I want.