More Korean Food

Dear All,

I was recently given a Korean cookbook - fantastic! I can now expand my Korean food repertoire.

This had to be tried immediately of course. And so in combination with a few favourites I tried out two new dishes. A 5-colour bean sprout salad and a rice cake stir fry. All extremely tasty!



 

xoxo Jennifer

Chocolate ginger cake

Dear all,

I have periods where I do a lot of cooking/baking, and then there's periods where nothing much special happens. In the busy periods I sometimes accidentally miss out on posting a cake, and this is one of them, I think. If I've posted it before, think of it as a friendly reminder of how awesome this cake is. It's not very fancy to look at, but tastes oh so good. Lovely combination, this chocolate and ginger business!!





xoxo Jennifer

Shepherd's Pie

Dear all,

This was another case of FOOD FOOD FOOD must eat no time for pictures. Luckily I got two in!

This was Shepherd's pie with a twist: potato and parsnip mash with turmeric. SO, SO good. Better than the traditional version, come autumn/winter I will definitely make it again!





xoxo Jennifer

Quinoa Bibimbap & Toppoki

Dear all,

Today I present Korean food with a twist. I found this recipe online in an attempt to make the food "healthier". Bibimbap is traditionally made with rice, meat and veggies. My version has quinoa, tofu, and...veggies. We didn't do any side dishes, as is common with Korean food, just had a big portion of toppoki to go with it! Toppoki is glutinous rice cakes in spicy sauce. Usually it has some sort of protein like egg or fish in it as well but we figured we'd had enough of that already, so "plain" is what we went for. It was my first time making this and boy was it good!







xoxo Jennifer

Moussaka

Dear all,

As far as impromptu dinners go, moussaka has it's pros and cons. Pro: it's amazing. con: it takes a long time to make which leads to pre-dinner snacking on olives, hummus and turkish bread (also delicious mind you). And then when it's finally done, not a lot of picture taking happens. Even so, here is my first ever moussake, with extra feta and mozarella on top (because why not!?).





xoxo Jennifer