Ambitious Deliciousness – Dont Eat Lazy.

Bulgogi, a classic Korean dish, is usually made with paper thin slices of beef, with a soy sauce based marinade. I was nervous about substituting the meat with ground beef, but it worked out really well. The burger was juicy, tasty, and had a complex depth of flavor that was hard to resist. And more importantly, don’t forget to top it with some aged kimchi!

We were able to grill this over charcoal, which made it taste soo good! Give it a try; I promise you won’t be disappointed!

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Despite the abundance of Korean dishes that grace this blog, I, for the life of me, cannot make a good pot of classic, Asian rice.

Yes, even with a rice cooker.

For the longest time, I would end up with a soupy goo. Then I would over comepensate by not adding enough water and end up with nasty, brick like grains. It wasn’t until years later that my sister told me that I was using the wrong part of the hand to measure the rice:water.

So when you have a big pot of dry rice, you roll with it and make fried rice. Since I didn’t have any other ingredients on hand, I went with eggplant, which turned out to be a good combination.

What can I say, we can’t be good at everything.  Have any of you experienced a similar frustration in the kitchen?

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Kimchi fried rice is so delicious, especially when it’s made at 2 am when you’re starving!

This particular “dish” is not something you’d serve to guest, as it’s made with whatever leftover vegetables one would find in the fridge, along with cold rice. Fried rice is best when made with cold rice – it will keep the dish from getting too soggy.

It has a dual purpose – get rid of old rice and kimchi in a new, yet flavorful manner.

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In a tiny kitchen somewhere in NY, two pizza pies were created from scratch.

Two VERY different pizzas.

Can you guess what kind of pizzas are pictured below?

 
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