Do you love mac & cheese? What about spaghetti and meat sauce? Combine them, take a stroll up the Scoville scale, and you sorta end up with tteokbokki. At least that’s what I think after making it for myself. It now resides in my brain-space […]
Hi Mom, It’s Me Again I called my mom to ask about chestnuts. Score and roast or boil and scoop; and either way, how long. I knew it’d be a simple conversation, but I called anyway. One of the nice things about this project is […]
I talked to my mom tonight to see if she got the photos of the tteokguk I made for New Year’s. Apparently it’s a simple dish, but I’m sort of amazed I pulled it off at all. It only took me two days. We talked […]
It’s not really a New Year for Koreans without some tteokguk, a warming clean broth soup with coin-shaped rice cakes (tteok), so that’s my first…
This is the year I figure out how to make my favorite Korean dishes. When I was growing up in southern California, Korean food was weird to my school friends. In 4th grade, I went over to my best friend’s house for dinner and her mom […]
