Some time last October, Trader Joe’s had black cod on sale. I never bought frozen seafood from TJ before but it was the perfect opportunity to final try Morimoto’s braised cod recipe from his book Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking. You can actually find a copy of his recipe here if you don’t [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Side Dishes category.
Japchae
Since coming back from the Bay Area, I’ve been eating a lot of Korean food. At home, I’ve made mostly bulgogi (post to come) and galbi, but I recently tried my hand at making banchan, well, other than the simple cucumber salad. I typically buy banchan from Zion but since I like to have banchan [...]
Korean Cucumber Salad
There are all sorts of variations of this salad. I like mine on the sweeter side with a big kick of spicy. The one thing I don’t use is toasted sesame seeds. Call me weird but I just don’t like picking all those little seeds from between my teeth (ew). Anyway, this is a pretty [...]
Grilled Tri-tip and Tomato Blue Cheese Salad
Other than stir-fries, I’ve also been doing a lot of grilling and barbecuing. Did I mention I love my new charcoal grill? I say it every time I use it. About the only thing I don’t grill on the new kettle is kalbi. That, for some reason, I find much easier to do on the gas [...]
Cauliflower Fried Rice
The Mister dubbed this dish the discovery of the year. I call it, “so good you won’t miss real fried rice” dish. Granted it’s only (end of) May but I think it’ll be tough to come up with another “new” dish as good as this one. What’s so special about this dish other than it [...]
