Soooo i have many different things in the recipe backlog. I’ve made so much but i thought i’d start off with something simple. It’s Mark’s kimbap! I used to always buy the kimbap on the weekends at the manna store down the street and paid the 7 or 9 bucks for the two rolls. I then thought to myself damn i spend a lot on kimbap. So i thought why don’t i just make my own kimbap!!! I went and bought the ingredients and figured i could actually make like a bunch of kimbap rolls for the same price as 1. So i bought all the ingredients at manna and made them myself.
Here is the end result of my kimbap adventure!
The ingredients i used were very simple
- For the beef
- 1/2 Pound Thinly Sliced Beef (Bulgogi sliced beef)
- 1 tablespoons of grated ginger
- 2 tablespoons of grated korean pear
- 4 tablespoons of soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- 1 tablespoon of minced garlic
- 1/2 medium onion
- For the rest of the kimbap
- Package of Burdock root strips
- Package of pickled radish
- 2-3 carrots
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 tablespoon of mirin
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- 1/2 cup of frozen spinach
- 2 teaspoon sesame oil
- a bunch of cooked white rice
- a bunch of seaweed sheets
I put the ingredients but for the bulgogi i really just did it by feel. I threw the sliced beef into a big ziplock bag and then threw in all the other ingredients for the bulgogi in the bag and shook it all up. Basically you want a sweetish marinade so that the beef absorbs it all. The grated pears actually contain calpain which is a natural meat tenderizer like in papaya and kiwis. It also adds a nice clean taste. So shake it up and let it sit for a while in the marinade. Remember don’t let it sit too long or it’ll get too soft. While that’s marinating go and prepare the eggs. I beat up the eggs and added mirin and sugar to make the eggs taste sweet. I was going to add some dashi too but got lazy. Basically i was making edo-style tamago but without all the ingredients. So cook and while you cook the eggs fold them so it creates a nice thick rectangle piece of egg. Boil the frozen spinach till it’s done. Then take it out and chill it in cold water. Strain and then mix the spinach with the sesame oil. Slice up all the vegetables so they are nice strips to be put into the kimbap. After the meat has tenderized go and throw the meat and onions in a medium-high heat pan and cook it. I usually just put the meat in and not the juices because more juice will come out of the meat when you cook it.
Now it’s just time to put it all together. Lay the seaweed down on your bamboo sushi roll roller and then spread a thin layer of rice all over the sheet. Don’t put too much rice or you won’t be able to put a lot of ingredients inside. Then lay all the ingredients down in the center of the roll. Put however much of each you like. Then roll it up however style you like rolling it. Voila! Simple Kimbap! You can now feed an army of hungry people! Enjoy!
Ok so i guess it has been a very long time since i last posted. Lots of stuff has happened and lots of food has been cooked since the last time i posted. I guess when i went back home for winter i kinda got lazy and stopped posting. That doesn’t mean i stopped cooking! And it doesn’t mean i stopped taking pictures of my cooking! (Well i’ve only taken pictures of a handful of them) I hope to put them all up eventually when i get back to posting!
So i guess i’ll say what i did over winter break. I went to the Philippines, Hong Kong and China. I started to play golf. I just joined some group lessons offered by umove. I don’t really expect that much out of the lessons except the fundamentals. I’m pretty sure i’m not going to be tiger woods with 6 45-minute group lessons. Truthfully, I didn’t know that golf would be as fun as it is. I actually enjoy going to the driving range and hitting some golf balls. I’m just doing the 6-iron so far. Maybe in time i’ll invest in a half set and start working the courses!
On another note i’m going to start an Ann Arbor message board. I don’t know if anyone will join or post on the message board but i don’t really care. I don’t even know if anyone reads this blog. But i’d like something like sdunderground for ann arbor. Facebook seems to kinda suck at that and only a message board can really do some things like that. O well whatever. Maybe if i build it they will come.
Sooo i couldn’t figure out which one to make. I asked some people what they would like and it seems they like chocolate cake. So i wanted to do the Chocolate Cake with Caramel-Milk Chocolate Frosting but i read the cake portion of the recipe was a real hit and miss. So i went searching for the perfect Chocolate Cake recipe and i found this double chocolate layer cake. Everyone seems to really like the cake that is made from this recipe so i thought i’d mix it with the Caramel-Milk Chocolate Frosting which everyone loves on the other cake. Hopefully this comes out to be the best cake in the world!
Here’s a picture of the Dobule Chocolate Layer Cake!
!!! Can’t wait to see how this comes out!
So i thinking of making some holiday treats before i leave for home. Maybe as a nice present and treat for everyone in my office and also the guys in the office next door. So i did my usual recipe crawl and came up with a bunch of different holiday treats. The only problem is they all look good and i can’t possible make them all! Here are a few pictures of the different ones i found
My list of treats are listed. In general i think i’m going to add them all to my baking cookbook but i want to make one of them before i leave! Which one!
- Tipsy Turtle Bark - rich chocolate with roasted pecans and butter-rum caramel
- Chocolate Chip and Peppermint Crunch Crackles - fudgy treats with peppermint chunks
- Pistachio and Cherry Mexican Wedding Cakes - little sweet cakes with pistacho and cherries inside
- Chocolate Panna Cotta Layer Cake - Lots and Lots of chocolate in a cake
- Chocolate Cake With Caramel-Milk Chocolate Frosting - Lots of chocolate with a caramel frosting flavor
- Triple-chocolate Cookies - Really soft and nice chocolate chocolate cookies
- Chocolate Chocolate-chip Cookies with mocha Cream Filling - Rich chocolate chip cookie with a creamy coffee center
- Kahlua chocolate chunk cookies - Rich Chocolate chip cookies and walnuts with a splash of Kahlua
I didn’t have pictures of the triple chocolate cookies but in general i have a bunch of different chocolate chip recipes. I was thinking maybe to make chocolate chip cookies then bring some mint ice cream and we could make chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches which are also a plus!
So yea if anyone is reading this help me out!
So Christmas is coming and i thought let’s make some cookies. I searched online and found a nice recipe for molasses crinkles. They are like the ginger snap cookies with that nice spice flavor you get around christmas time. So what could go wrong with Molasses Crinkles? Well Nothing went wrong. Just I realized don’t make cookies that taste just like if you bought them. I made these cookies and thought to myself …. I can just buy the same thing. I should of made something like crazy ooey gooey chocolate chip cookies or something. Though i have to say i do enjoy the cookies especially with some milk but i’m not going crazy over them! Next time i’m gonna make a carrot cake or something like that.
Anyways here are the pics of my little cookie monster adventure
The ingredients for these cookies were
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup molasses
- 1/3 cup sanding or raw sugar for topping
Whisk together the Flour, Allspice, Cloves, Ginger, Salt, Cinnamon, Baking Soda so that everything is mixed together. Start beating together the Vegetable Shortening, Butter and Brown Sugar for about 3-4 minutes in the mixer. When it’s mixed and fluffy add the egg and molasses and keep beating it together. When that has been mixed in lower the mixer speed to low and slow pour in the flour mixture. Keep mixing until everything is mixed together very well.
Preheat oven to 375F. Start rolling the cookie dough into 1 inch balls. It helps to have wet hands when doing this because the batter can get really sticky. After you roll the balls dip one side of the ball into the sugar you have for topping. You want one end to have sugar so when it bakes it is on top. Put these balls about 1-2 inches apart from each other on baking sheets. Put the cookies in the oven for about 8-11 minutes. The longer it cooks the crisper it is. I did around 8-10 and it came out half and half. Next time i might go for about 8 minutes. Anything lower than that and the cookies are still in a ballish shape. So after the time is up take them out and let them cook for a couple minutes. I had to do about 3 rounds of baking because i only had 2 baking pans. It’ll make around 50-60 depending how big your dough balls are…. 
There you go! Molasses Crinkles! Enjoy!
