Tonight's dinner was...
Japchae (Korean noodles)
Orange Roughy with Balsamic sauce
Mizuna soup with shrimp
Potato namul
Here are some recipes of the day:
Japchae
Japchae noodles---1/3 pkg
Onion---1/2 (sliced)
Carrots---5 baby carrots (julienned)
Shiitake mushroom---3 (sliced)
Green pepper---1/2 (julienned)
Meat (anything. I used ground meat )---1/2 lb
*Soy sauce---1tbs
*Agave---1/2tbs
*Seasoning*
water---1/4cup
soy sauce---3tbs
agave---2tbs
sesame oil---1/2tbs
1) Cook the noodles and cut to edible size
2) Cook the meat with meat seasoning. Put aside.
3) Cook onion, carrots, shiitake, and green pepper in this order. salt and pepper to taste with a drizzle of sesame oil.
The real way of making this dish, you cook each ingredients separately. But since it's made by ME, I just make them all together...because it's faster ;p The result? To be honest with you, I couldn't tell the difference if the ingredients were cooked together or not.
4) In a large pan, put *seasoning* ingredients, then put the cooked noodless.
4) Cook for a couple of minutes, then add meat and vegetables. Mix well together on a medium heat.
Balsamic sauce
Balsamic vinegar---1/2cup
Red wine---3tbs
Soy sauce---2tbs
Agave---2 1/2tbs
Butter---1tbs
1) In a small sauce pan, put all the ingredients together, then bring to a boil on a high heat.
2) Lower the heat to medium to low to simmer until sauce gets thickened.
Mizuna soup with shrimp
Mizuna---1 small bunch (3 inch long)
Shrimp---2-3
Water---2cup
Chicken bouillon---1/2
1) Make a boiling water in a medium pot. Put bouillon until it dissolved, then add shrimp and mizuna. Add some salt to set the taste.
My husband is off tomorrow, so I didn't prepare a bento - :)
I made something Korean today.
I was born and raised in Japan. So I'm Japanese.
But I was born to a Korean family.
But my parents were also born in Japan.
So I am Japanese, really.
But in Japan, they call us Korean.
We carry Korean passports.
We speak no Korean.
I'm a 3rd Generation Korean Japanese.
I always hated the fact that I was Korean, because I was confused growing up. What was my real identity?
I had two names. Japanese and Korean.
I went to school by my Japanese name.
I traveled abroad by Korean name.
I remember hating my Korean name because it didn't sound like mine.
When I visited Korea for the first time when I was 14 years old, I was asked something in Korean at the immigration...
Had no idea what the officer was saying...but I remember her giving me a stinky eyes and said something like 'Why this girl doesn't speak Korean when she has a Korean passport!?'.
I felt ashamed.
So, when I came to the states when I was 15, I felt free for the first time in my life.
Free to say where I was from.
Free to say what I was.
Free to say who I am.
It's funny though, I married to a man who was born in Hawaii.
He was born to a Korean family.
He, like me, speaks no Korean.
I guess we make a perfect 'fake' Korean couple :)
Picture of the day:
My son goes to preschool on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays. So I try to find some activities to do on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
We usually go to a small local library near our house, but they are closed for a month for some reason. We went to a different one for a change.
In stead of reading books after books (which he usually do at library), he found some train toys (his favorite!)... I don't think he read any books at this library today. ha ha
