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 Vegetables 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 [...]
Spicy Garlic Dry-Fried Long Beans with Pork
I haven’t made any stir-fries in a while but on a recent trip to the store, I saw some long beans that looked good. I originally had planned on making green papaya salad with it but I never got around to getting the papaya. So instead, I made a dry-fried dish with it. I was [...]
Hong Kong Fried Noodles – Revisited
For New Year’s Day, I decided to make Hong Kong style fried noodles with seafood. The original post with the recipe can be found here. I’ve updated the recipe since that first time and I think the sauce is much better now. As with most stir-fry recipes, you can add just about any kind of [...]
