Recipes
Any of you who have had direct contact with me may have wondered a bit about the email address. I know that when I have to give out out for various reasons, people seem to be unable to actually wrap their heads around it:
“Chip…monk…what? Huh? Not a monk? OH! Chip-munk - chipmunk, like the animal! [...]
Folks, just a quick note to let you know that nominations for the 2007 Food Blog Awards are now open. Having glanced over the categories, I don’t think I actually qualify for any of them, but you should definitely stop by and nominate any blogs that you love that fit the categories! Now, onto the [...]
I spent a bit of time debating the title of this post. You see, to me, the image it evokes is immediately nostalgic and tasty, yet I can see how someone who is unfamiliar with this dish would read it and think “WTF?!” to themselves. I mean, even the more well known warm broth which [...]
Those of you who know the Chinese black bean noodle dish ‘Zhajiang mian’ ( ) may look at this and think that it looks awfully familiar. And, in fact, you’d be right!
This, dear readers, is the Korean version of that well-known Chinese dish, with the almost exact name of ‘jja-jjang myun’ (). While the [...]
“You know,” my mother mused aloud as she watched me frowning over a big metal bowl of dough, “most ‘ahjumas’1 don’t even bother making this from scratch because the packet mix is so good…”
I grit my teeth. “Shut up, mom!”
Seemingly oblivious to my pained request that she stop rubbing it in, she continued with “I [...]
