One of my husband’s favorite dishes is Korean spinach soup with doenjang and clams. My mother-in-law made this dish regularly when my husband was growing up, and it always reminds him of simpler days back in Jersey. With high quality fresh clams sometimes hard to find, I wondered if canned clams might substitute. Turns out…
Surviving a pandemic means a lot of home cooked meals. Four months into lockdown and with restaurants starting to open up, I realized that cooking three meals a day, every day actually hasn’t been much of a burden at all. When I thought about why this might be, it came down to a handful of…
Recent study has pointed to kimchi for low COVID-19 fatality rates of South Korea. According to the British newspaper The Sun, Dr. Jean Bousquet, honorary professor of Pulmonary Medicine at Montpellier University, France, and his team studied a link between low fatalities and national dietary differences and found that countries where fermented cabbage forms a…
Our least expensive meal in Paris also turned out to be the best. Bulgogi jeongol is now one of our favorite things to make at home. Korean bulgogi jeongol might be the last thing you might expect to enjoy during your European vacation but hear me out. A Paris itinerary loaded with Michelin-starred restaurants may…
Too hot to cook or just plain don’t want to but still want a quick, healthy meal? No problem! If you have a block of tofu and a handful of nuts, you already have half the ingredients for a refreshingly delicious noodle dish that’s a fan favorite among Koreans. Not as popular as mul naeng…
“It wasn’t until that day that I truly enjoyed the depth of flavors in miyeok-guk. But it took me even longer to understand the unspoken message behind my mom’s relentless demands that I eat it each birthday anniversary.“ “Ew. What is that?” Growing up, there was one dish that I wished my mom wouldn’t make when…
Galbi, or Korean short ribs, is one of the most loved and popular Korean dishes both inside and outside Korea. Since galbi literally means ribs in Korean, flank steak galbi is actually an oxymoron! But with short ribs hard to come by during the pandemic, and hungry boys dying for some old fashioned galbi, I…
Many people don’t know why you have to eat miyeok-guk on your birthday in Korea but the answer is quite simple. Miyeok-guk, or Korean seaweed soup, is the traditional meal that Korean mothers eat multiple times per day after childbearing to help heal her body and produce milk to feed her new baby. Because of…
A master of the high low, David Chang fearlessly goes from Michelin starred restauranteur to shameless re-heater of frozen tater tots without missing a beat. David Chang is a Korean American celebrity chef best known for his Momofuku brand and his Netflix series Ugly Delicious, but during this pandemic, it’s been his Instagram account that…
I usually get my K-food fix once a week, always at a Korean restaurant. But since the onset of the pandemic, I found myself stuck in this house with my own cooking, which I hate, three times a day. I can only eat so many sandwiches and and bowls of pasta. At first, I…