Food!

Today I ate more than I had any right to, but I don’t have photos of my beautiful meals.  Instead, I have these meal-for-one snapshots taken over the past few days. 

Homemade zucchini walnut bread with coffee

I LOVE the green onion kimchi on the left.  I’ve been eating it with almost every meal I have at home. The zucchini was leftover from the zucchini bread, and I added barley + flax powder to my regular white rice. Miam!  

A reincarnation of the same meal, with a tofu-spinach-mushroom stir-fry.

It snowed today! And yesterday!  I spent the weekend peacefully, with family members, (relatively) old friends, and new friends.  Those weekends are usually the best, right? I ate a ton.  Probably enough for two people.  It’s been a good week for me and food.  We’ve been more intimate than ever, except for maybe in France.  Also, I have a huge bin of kimchi fermenting on my counter.  And one in my fridge.  Maybe a kimchi party is in order.  It could be the Invite of the Year — my aunties’ kimchi is that good.    I went to the traditional 김장 this year at my fave auntie’s home yesterday, and I got there just in time to see six Korean women all flurrying about in pink rubber gloves and with kimchi seasoning up to their elbows.  It was a sight, and I felt happy to be a small part of it, the small part being swiping a kimchi leaf with my thumb and pointer finger every once in a while (to make sure it tasted good, of course).  Afterwards we all enjoyed plates of fresh kimchi with pork (보쌈) and good liquor. It was kind of perfect.
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It snowed today! And yesterday! 

I spent the weekend peacefully, with family members, (relatively) old friends, and new friends.  Those weekends are usually the best, right?

I ate a ton.  Probably enough for two people.  It’s been a good week for me and food.  We’ve been more intimate than ever, except for maybe in France.  Also, I have a huge bin of kimchi fermenting on my counter.  And one in my fridge.  Maybe a kimchi party is in order.  It could be the Invite of the Year — my aunties’ kimchi is that good.   

I went to the traditional 김장 this year at my fave auntie’s home yesterday, and I got there just in time to see six Korean women all flurrying about in pink rubber gloves and with kimchi seasoning up to their elbows.  It was a sight, and I felt happy to be a small part of it, the small part being swiping a kimchi leaf with my thumb and pointer finger every once in a while (to make sure it tasted good, of course).  Afterwards we all enjoyed plates of fresh kimchi with pork (보쌈) and good liquor.

It was kind of perfect.

After not being home much the last couple weeks, it felt so good to have my thoughts to myself tonight.  I read, wrote, watched Glee, ate ice cream, and was generally productive in a lazy way.  I even cooked myself dinner even though last night I gorged (GORGED) on turkey, ham, yams, mashed potatoes, the works, and this afternoon I polished off a big plate of spaghetti bolognese and ciabatta bread at Hyundai Dep’t Store.  Strangely, my stomach felt so happy and so awful at the same time.  Until I had the nerve to make this kimchi jiggae, then it shifted a little more to the Awful side.  Anyway, I still have a lot of kimchi left, and the stink has gotten to the point where I try my hardest not to open the refrigerator unless it’s absolutely necessary.
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After not being home much the last couple weeks, it felt so good to have my thoughts to myself tonight.  I read, wrote, watched Glee, ate ice cream, and was generally productive in a lazy way.  I even cooked myself dinner even though last night I gorged (GORGED) on turkey, ham, yams, mashed potatoes, the works, and this afternoon I polished off a big plate of spaghetti bolognese and ciabatta bread at Hyundai Dep’t Store.  Strangely, my stomach felt so happy and so awful at the same time.  Until I had the nerve to make this kimchi jiggae, then it shifted a little more to the Awful side.  Anyway, I still have a lot of kimchi left, and the stink has gotten to the point where I try my hardest not to open the refrigerator unless it’s absolutely necessary.