Spicy Mixed Meat & Vegetables Stew

Hello everyone!

Today I am going to introduce to you one of the most popular stews in Korea. A direct translation of the name would be military stew as it is rumoured to have been created in the military. It is extremely simple to make and is also one of my favourite Korean stews.

Main Ingredients:

• 1 can of spam (ham)
• sausages
• onions
• kimchi
• ramen
• green onions
• tofu
• cheese (optional)

Sauce Ingredients:

• 3 spoons red pepper paste
• 1 spoon red pepper powder
• 1 spoon diced garlic
• 3 spoons soy sauce
• pinch of black pepper

I have left out the exact portions for main ingredients as it is really up to personal tastes. 

*Note: For the green onions, you can choose to either cut them up into large pieces and add them at the beginning, or dice them into smaller pieces and add them at the very end.

Steps:

1. Slice all of the main ingredients except the ramen so that they are bite-size and combine all of the sauce ingredients together in a bowl.

2. Put all of the ingredients (main and sauce except ramen) into a wide pot and fill it with water so that the ingredients are just covered.

3. Boil the pot at medium heat. Once the main ingredients are cooked, add in the ramen. Add about half of the powder sauce included in the ramen package or however much you would like according to your tastes.

4. Serve and enjoy once the ramen noodles are cooked!

As I mentioned, it's super simple! Good luck and have a happy yummy day!

Korean Style Sausage Bread

 Hello everyone!

Today I will show you the korean-style sausage bread (also known as pizza bread). I believe you can find this in any korean bakery. One thing is that it takes a while to make because you have to let the dough rise in two steps (original recipe required 3 steps but I found this to be unnecessary).  Credits go to Gold Star Mom for the original recipe. As I didn't take any pictures in between the steps, please refer to Gold Star Mom for step-by-step picture instructions. Since the instructions are in Korean, you will just have to use the pictures as a reference.

Ingredients 

• 250 g bread flour
• 30 g sugar
• 5 g salt
• 5 g yeast
• 30 g butter
• 1 egg
• 120 g milk
• sausages

• handful of canned corn
• 1/4 onion
• garlic (optional)
• 2 spoons mayonnaise
• cheese
• 1/2 bell pepper
• ketchup
• parsley flakes

Steps 

1. Mix together the bread flour, sugar, salt, yeast, butter, egg, and milk (I used a bread maker for this step).

2. Let the dough rise for about 40 minutes. I preheated the oven to 170 F, turned it off to let it cool, then put the dough in here to let it rise. 

3. Divide up the dough into about 52 g each. Roll them out, place one sausage in the middle and wrap it up with the dough. 

4. Using scissors, cut the sausage into pieces, making sure not to cut the dough completely (Refer to Gold Star Mom for detailed pictures). 

5. Push the ends down completely. Then, push each sausage piece to the left and to the right, alternating until they are all flattened like a beavertail (again, refer to Gold Star Mom for detailed pictures). 

6. As done in step 2, put the dough into the oven again and let the dough rise for 40 minutes. 

7. After 30 minutes, dice the onion, bell pepper, and garlic. Mix them together with a handful of canned corn and 2 spoons of mayonnaise. 

8. Take out the dough and preheat the oven to 360 F. While the oven is heating up, place about a spoonful of the mayo mixture in a line on top of the dough. Then, sprinkle some cheese and parsley flakes and top it off with ketchup. 

9. Bake in the oven for about 17 - 18 minutes. 

Note that baking times may differ depending on how strong your oven is. 

I hope your sausage bread was successful! 

Have a happy yummy day!  

Stir-fry Udon

Hello everyone!

This is one of the recipes I tried earlier this year. It's super easy to make and takes only 15 - 20 minutes to make.

Ingredients

• Udon noodles
• Onion
• Bell pepper
• Cabbage / lettuce
• Bean sprouts
• Garlic

• Hot pepper powder (optional)
• Salt
• Pepper
• Sesame oil
• 3 spoons soy sauce
• 1/2 spoon sugar
• 1 spoon oyster sauce

I like to emphasize flexibility in cooking so I work with whatever ingredients I have in my fridge. Today, I didn't have bean sprouts and lettuce so I replaced lettuce with cabbage and passed on the bean sprouts.

For the sauce, you can use 1 full spoon of sugar or reduce soy sauce to 2 spoons if you like sweet flavours. On the other hand, if you prefer salty flavours, you can use the recipe above.

Steps

1. Cut the vegetables, mince the garlic, and start boiling water in a pot.

2. Once the water starts boiling, add in the udon noodles and cook for 1-2 minutes. Then drain and mix in a bit of sesame oil to prevent the noodles from sticking to each other. 

3. Stir-fry vegetables and garlic in a pan and prepare the sauce on the side. I like to season my vegetables with salt and pepper as I stir-fry them but I will leave this up to you! 

4. Continue to fry the vegetables until the onion becomes transparent. Then, add in the noodles and the sauce and mix until everything is coated with the sauce. If you prefer to eat spicy, add in the hot pepper powder at this stage and mix well.

5. Move to a plate and enjoy! 

With bean sprouts 

Have a happy yummy day! 

New Beginning

Hello everyone!

It's been a while since I made my last post. This is an announcement to inform you that I have decided to change the direction of my blog to focus on food that I make. The reason for this new direction is because for my new year's resolution, I decided to try 100 new recipes to broaden my cooking skills. So far, I have only tried 24 new recipes since I was at school for the first half of this year so, I am going to try and learn 76 recipes before December 31, 2013!  

Note: I am very versatile with regards to the type of food that I cook. I love everything ranging from Asian to European and from main meals to desserts and snacks. 

Here is the list of 24 foods that I have made so far in 2013: 

1. Beef mushroom roll 

2. Easy bruschetta (for students who want something easy and yummy) 

3. Potato ball

4. Mapo tofu

5. Stir-fry udon 

6. Apple pie 

7. Homemade tomato cream spaghetti

8. Apple crumble

9. Beavertails 

10. Tomato risotto 

11. Potato gratin 

12. Spicy rice cake + Seaweed roll 

13. Cream udon 

14. Cheese oven spaghetti

15. KFC biscuit

16. Fish and chips 

17. Kimchi noodle soup (김치 칼국수)

18. Portugese egg tart

19. Kimbab (Korean sushi roll) 

20. Cinnamon pancake (호떡)

21. Chicken tomato stew 

22. Red pepper paste potato pancake (고추장 감자 전) 

23. Spicy chicken with vegetables (닭갈비)

24. Spicy mixed meat and vegetable stew (부대찌개)

If you like what you see so far, make sure to follow me because I will also be posting recipes!

Have a happy yummy day!