Recipes

Sorry for the lack of updates, folks, but my mother has been ill this week and consequently I’ve been kept busy running the household and taking care of the rest of my domestically-challenged family. Not to worry, there are posts in draft, just need the time, energy and mental capacity to blog them.

I have a [...]



Finally.

Here it is.

What so many of you have requested and been waiting for.

Mother’s bulgogi (Korean bbq beef) recipe.

Let me tell you something about my mother’s cooking. There is no binder of recipes, no handwritten notations, no secret stash of recipe cards like some of your mothers have so thoughtfully kept and which you hope to [...]



Happy new year, everybody!

You may think that my greetings are either too late or too early, but you’re only correct if you guessed the latter! For those who aren’t aware, it is the first day of the new Lunar year on this coming Thursday, so at this stage, Korean families all over the world are [...]



This may look like sushi, but let me tell you that that’s about as far as the resemblence to Japanese maki sushi goes. The flavours and aromas that are a part of kimbap (a literal translation of the word - ‘kim’ = nori sheets, ‘bap’ = rice) are very very different, making this version from [...]



You know how sometimes you see a photo of something that just looks so delicious that you want to make it straight away? Well, that was the case with these delectable little morsels - it was just before my Christmas cookie baking extravaganza that I spotted this post by Susan at Food Blogga, which made [...]