Ambitious Deliciousness – Dont Eat Lazy.

Soon Du Bu (aka Soon Doo Boo) is a spicy anchovy based stew with chunks of super soft tofu and other vegetables. Most Soon Du Bu specialty restaurants will give you a bunch of options. You can choose to get white (no spicy seasonings), mild, medium, hot, or a bean paste based soup, similar to miso. They even give you the option to add mushrooms, seafood, pork, beef, Kimchi, or a combination of the aforementioned ingredients. I threw in whatever I had on hand for this particular recipe.

This stone bowl keep the soup nice and hot so that it doesn’t get cold as you eat. As you can see, it totally fogged up my camera lens, and continued to bubble for a good 10 minutes.

When it’s cold outside, there is nothing more comforting than eating soups! This is one of my favorite soups and I have a feeling I will be eating a lot of it this winter! Won’t you join me in this endeavor of eating delicious Soon Du Bu at home? Feel free to add ground beef, or ground pork, or your favorite seafood to this recipe. Also, check out my other recipes for Korean Soups.

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This is one of my favorite dishes to eat. The combination of sweet, salty and spicy goes amazingly with the textures and the unadulterated flavor of tofu and the rice cake. Yum!!!

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For those of you who eat Korean food on a regular basis, you know that there are a bunch of side dishes that accompany every meal. Ban chan can vary, depending on what kind of produce is available that day. There is a variety of vegetables that are sauteed, boiled, and/or flavored. And of course, Kimchi is served with every meal.

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Dwen jang jjigae is a classic Korean dish. Jjigae means stew in Korean. The stew is made with fermented soy beans, veggies and tofu. My family loves eating this stew, especially on a very cold day. There’s almost a nutty flavor to the broth, not to mention delicous! Something to note: it’s much healthier to make this at home, since all the restaurants use MSG or artificial beef flavoring to make the broth.

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