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Pan Seared Filets – Treating yourself to something easy and amazing!
Forget all about those dumb filets they sell in the store with the bacon wrapped around them. They end up tasting like some sort of spamified meat product in the end. I found these tenderloin ends at the store for $9 a pound, whereas filets usually run $16 a pound. Butter and olive oil in… Continue reading
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Kimchi Fried Eggs
This took less than 10 minutes to make and was over the top delicious! 2 large eggs cracked into a bowl, set aside 2 tsp of soy sauce, 2 tsp of oyster sauce in a bowl, set aside 1/4 cup of diced kimchi 1 scallion shredded Heat a large sauté pan with 1 tbsp. of… Continue reading
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What’s normal Anyway?
One of my friends at work today said, I don’t think you guys eat anything normal. At first that is an easy statement to accept , but as I think about it it makes me realize why I am cooking in the first place. I actually want the food that I am cooking to become… Continue reading
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Everything I ever needed to know I learned from Maangchi
This summer while camping I took on something I never thought I would, reading the novel, “Julie and Julia”. When Donna first mentioned it to me, that the campground office had a book exchange library and this Julie Powell piece was available, I declined. This was because I saw the movie. Later that day, while… Continue reading
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When it comes to cooking, I am going somewhere, just not sure where
In 1999 a spark happened. Korean Garden in Junction City, Kansas. My National Guard unit, the 744th Transportation Company was running special missions with our trucks. It seems that the military, during Desert Storm had made one of the most shocking decisions of the entire conflict, by which I mean they forced us (surprisingly not… Continue reading
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Hammer Girl does it again!
Emily Kim is a phenomenal Korean home cook, who has a knack for teaching. Better known by her web name “Maangchi” (“Hammer” in Korean). She never intended to become the Korean cooking sensation, but with guidance from children, she posted her first YouTube cooking video using her gaming name. This led to another them another.… Continue reading
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Monday’s through Fridays are days of rest……compared to the weekend!
There are 2 things I like to do on the weekends. I like to create a great meal that inknow I could not find in a restaurant. I also like it if I can accomplish something around the house from my insanely colossal list of things to fix, remodel, refurbish or rehabilitate. Sometimes this involves… Continue reading
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Asian Grocery, Best Buy, B.A.M, and “Going under is cool”
Today was a day we had been wanting to get to, or at least out of the way. Noah needed to have a biopsy on the bone near his right ankle. It has been swollen in a lump since last April. A summer of ultra sounds, x-rays and blood work have led to the need… Continue reading
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A bunch of random particles spinning in the void…
I do not feel that I have really blogged. If you want to be respected as a blogger YOU MUST EARN IT! So I have failed. I need some gravitational core to cause all of the bits of me to pull together into a cohesive ball of blog wielding excellence. So what is it that… Continue reading