I've made a half-hearted version of beef bulgogi in the past but this time, I made it as authentically as I could. I bought a nice piece of sirloin steak, par froze it and cut it as thinly as possible. I also bought an Asian pear. And watched several videos before I chose the one which produced this dish.


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The bialy is a small roll that, according to Wikipedia, is found in Polish and Ashkenazi Polish culture. It has many similarities to a bagel. Although it isn't boiled after proofing, just baked, it still retains the dense chewiness and flavour found in that ubiquitous bread product ( Read more... )

Recently I cooked up the last of my tri-colour quinoa and used part of it to make shrimp and Chinese sausage quinoa fried "rice". I set aside a cup of the cooked quinoa and finally used it up this past weekend to stuff some sweet peppers that had been lingering in my vegetable crisper drawer.

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You can often find those little bundles of green onions on sale ... 2 for 99 cents ...  in your grocery store ( Read more... )

When I ran out of my stash of caramelized onions in the freezer, you would have thought the world had come to an end.

Fortunately, today was a lazy day in which I had no cooking to do, so I finally sliced up those 4 large Spanish onions that I bought a week or so back, and made a new batch. I wonder what goodies I'll use them in.


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