during the summer of 2010, i became very familiar with korean food. it became one of those things i hated to love and loved to hate. it was very frequent in my life, a daily basis--some weeks a 3 meals a day basis.
i heard recently that we crave what we eat.
that summer and then after, i started craving korean food. the spices and sauces and even the kimchi became familiar to me in a way that i craved it, liked it and was excited to find good korean restaurants when i returned to the USA.
i haven't found a great korean food place yet...living in DC, you would think that would be easy but i'll be honest, i haven't looked all over just yet.
so, a few weeks ago, i decided i would make some. i taught cooking classes while in mongolia and boast about my [limited] cooking skills.
so, i went to whole foods [which erin told me stories about that i half-way believed until i went to one--so cool!] and i gathered up the materials to make this rice-stirfry-spicy korean dish.
you can find the recipe i based the meal off of, here. essentially, you need these things:
vegetables, meat, egg, oil, rice and spicy paste
the vegetables each have different ways of cooking. i used carrots, spinach, sprouts, zucchini and mushrooms and for the meat tofu.
after you cook the vegetables, you can arrange them on a plate.
then you can fry and egg [sorry, don't have a picture of this--use your imagination]
then place the rice in the bottom of the bowl and arrange your veggies and meat on top, and add the fried egg that i keep almost forgetting about.
add your spicy paste [korean chili paste works fine]
mix and toss like a salad and enjoy!
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