Life in Korea
Happy New Year! Rice Cake Soup (떡 국)
February 14th was Valentine’s Day. But it was also Lunar New Year over here in Korea. In Korea, it’s traditional to eat Ddeok guk on Lunar New Year’s Day. Ddeok is Korean rice cake. I saw two people making rice cake in a traditional village during my EPIK orientation. The process involved a wooden sledgehammer, ...
Big News
There’s two things, I now have my very own website and have moved over to wordpress! I got my acceptance into Grad School for a distance Masters! (Regarding number one) This has been a long time coming. Since I got the macbook I’ve been tinkering with iweb and I was impressed with how nice the templates were and ...
Beef Vegetable Korean Rice Porridge (소고기 야채 죽)
Juk is a type of rice congee. In simple terms, it’s Korean Rice Porridge. Different types of congee can be found in other Asian countries. In Japan it’s called ‘okayu’, whereas Indonesians know it by the name ‘bubur’. Here in Korea, juk is often recommended for the elderly or for eating when you are sick ...
GUNS …. N …. ROSES!!
Gun’s N’ Roses was one of the biggest groups around when I was growing up. Eventually they kind of turned into a side-show with people coming and going and Axl Rose becoming a recluse by Hollywood standards. Axl and Slash were the core of the band, nobody cared so much for the other members, ...
Dak Doritang (닭 도리탕)
Recently I tried to cook Dak Doritang, Spicy Chicken Stew. Unfortunately, the results weren’t so good. K said it was quite good, but I didn’t agree. Something was missing and it didn’t come together as I had originally hoped it would. In the first recipe, I used 1 kg of boneless skinless chicken breasts and ...
Christmas & New Years in the Land of the Morning Calm…
2009 is finished. It’s now the year of the tiger; technically it’ll be year of the tiger starting mid-Febuary. It’s been a crazy month. I have: Extended my contract with EPIK: This was touch and go for a while. I changed my mind again and again. In the end I decided to keep put. It was ...