Category: Soup

AKA -guks or -tangs, lighter than stews

Yukgaejang (Spicy Beef Soup)

This dish was supposed to be for March, but it simply didn’t happen. Has that ever happened to you?  I’m no less excited about cooking Korean dishes, but sometimes there just aren’t enough waking hours. I traveled for work a bunch in March and got behind. And we even had a cold snap…

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Galbitang

Over the Christmas break, my sister Ahrie – the only one of the five of us siblings who was actually born in Korea – was helping me map out my year of Korean cooking adventures. She helped me choose galbitang for February because it’s a warm, rich, comforting soup that sounded nice for a…

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I Made My First Tteokguk (Twice)

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 about broth; she said she heard somewhere you…

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