Homemade Korean Dinner

DINNER

(*Delicious*)

Kalbi (Korean bbq beef)

Spicy Bulgogi Part II

Meal: lunch (Wed 10/27)

From: my fridge (via my girlfriend's kitchen)

Cost: N/A

Location: my place

I took the other half of the container of spicy bulgogi my girlfriend made me and put it with some brown rice and some Korean side dishes I had in the fridge.

Taste: still pretty darn good.

Conclusion: I think I have run out of leftovers, so Thursday's lunch might be a burger out.

Drink: cold water (Deer Park)

Leftovers from Dinner

Meal: lunch (Tue 10/5)

From: my fridge

Cost: (to me) free

Location: my kitchen

I had some leftovers from dinner, in fact, my meal was identical to my dinner the night before: bulgogi and Korean side dishes.

Taste: still delicious.
Conclusion: I like Korean food, and I like beef...


Drink: a cold can of Coke Zero.

Korean Food!

Meal: dinner (Mon 10/4)

From: my fridge

Cost: (to me) free

Location: my kitchen

I got home after a couple of hours of playing basketball and I was starving. My girlfriend had been nice enough to give me a container of beef marinated in Korean BBQ sauce (bulgogi). I still had a few Korean side dishes left as well. I cooked up the beef in a frying pan and dinner was ready:

I was too lazy to make rice and too hungry. The beef was very thinly sliced and cooked up fast, making rice would have taken over 30 minutes, so I decided to skip the rice. Fortunately, the beef and side dishes was just enough to stave off starvation.

Taste: GREAT!
Conclusion: a nice reprieve from the crap I normally have for dinner on a weekday.

Drink: ice water

Even More Korean Food!

Meal: dinner (Sun 10/3)

From: my girlfriend's kitchen

Cost: super free!

Location: my girlfriend's place

So for dinner out came ALL of the food leftover from the wedding my girlfriend's parents went to...

Korean side dishes, this time including fried squid and fried shrimp!

Kalbi stew! Lots of kimchi (and some cabbage soup not from the wedding).

Taste: I have to say the fried shrimp and the kalbi stew were awesome, well the kalbi stew was the best.

Conclusion: I wish I had some more of that kalbi stew...

Drink: a glass of ice water.

Lazy Sunday Morning Breakfast

Meal: breakfast (Sun 9/19)

From: my fridge

Cost: indeterminable, from the groceries my girlfriend picked out and I paid for.

Location: my kitchen

This is just something my girl friend quickly threw together for breakfast.

Kimchi fried rice and pork with tofu rounds.

A second look.

Taste: pretty good

Conclusion: no complaints, much better than my typical breakfast of some kind of dough-based product.

Drink: ice water

End of the 1st Quarter, Time for Dinner!

After the first quarter of the Jets-Ravens game, I realized two things: (1) the game was going to be ugly, real ugly; and (2) the toast and spinach dip was not going to cut it as a full meal (dinner time!).

Meal: dinner (Mon 9/13)

From: my fridge

Cost: [to me] FREE!

Location: my kitchen

I went back to my fridge in search of "dinner," this is what I found...

I found some left over steamed frozen vegetables [looked to be only about two days old] and some left over canned beans/mixed vegetables [I think from a dinner I had last week]. I threw them together and put them in the microwave for a couple of minutes.

I also found some brown rice someone had left in the fridge from a night or two before.

Courtesy of my girlfriend some Korean side dishes (assorted pancakes [seafood, kimchi, and mushroom]).

The vegetables tasted like crap, so I poured some oyster sauce on them, which made them only bearable.

I threw the various pancakes on top of the brown rice, all the grease from cooking them mixed with the rice was delicious.

Taste: the vegetables with the oyster sauce covering the heinousness was only acceptable, and the grease covered pancakes were the highlight of the meal, the brown rice just acted as additional filler.

Conclusion: a cheap and filling meal.

Drink: a can of Diet Dr. Pepper with ice.

Iron Man Edition!

Dessert: black cherry jello

I wanted something to finish my meal, I found some half eaten jello in my fridge, so I ate it.

Post-Lunch Snack

Meal: snack (Sat 9/11)

From: some Korean restaurant

Cost: N/A

Location: Queens

Spicy Korean Chicken Wings

Taste: nice and saucy

Conclusion: by 5pm I was starving and dinner was not going to be for another three plus hours...

Drink: a nice tall glass of ice water.

More Korean Food

Meal: dinner (Sat 9/11)
From: my girlfriend's fridge
Cost: N/A
Location: my girlfriend's kitchen

The Meal

(some Korean food)

Braised Beef

Fried Squid

Jap Chae

Fried Flounder

 Korean Side Dishes

White Rice

Taste: absolutely delicious

Conclusion: everything was good, and the variety allowed for a little taste of everything.

Drink: a can of Diet Dr. Pepper.

Diet Dr. Pepper

(Iron Man Edition)

Korean Dinner

Meal: dinner (Fri 9/10)
From: my girlfriend's fridge
Cost: N/A
Location: my girlfriend's kitchen

Korean Fried Pork Belly

Kimchi and Tofu Noodles

White Rice

White Rice

Taste: absolutely delicious

Conclusion: fried port belly is one of my favorite Korean dishes, something I have been craving for a long time, absolutely delicious.

Drink: a nice big glass of ice water (Brita filtered).

Pre-Dinner Snack

Meal: snack (Fri 9/10)

From: my girlfriend's fridge

Cost: N/A

Location: my girlfriend's kitchen

Kimchi Fried Noodles

Taste: spicy and yummy!

Conclusion: by 7pm I was starving and dinner was not until 8:30pm...

Dinner (Round 2)

Meal: dinner [part 2] (Sun 9/5)

From: girlfriend's fridge

Cost: N/A

Location: girlfriend's kitchen

Spicy Korean Pork Belly over Rice

I was again starving after my successful fantasy football draft. I managed to snag Chris Johnson and Andre Johnson with my first two picks. We went with an auction style draft this year, which took a lot longer than usually, over two hours. Nothing like some good Korean food to fill the belly. My girlfriend made some Korean style spicy pork belly, which was delicious. It was a little spicy, but not too much so, and smothered in onions. Paired with some radish over rice, a great dish.

Taste: yummy!

Conclusion: Korean food always tastes good.

Drink: a nice glass of ice water.

Homemade Korean Dinner

Meal: dinner (Sat 9/4)

From: girlfriend's fridge

Cost: N/A

Location: girlfriend's kitchen

Various Korean Side Dishes

Spicy Korean Chicken Stew

White Jasmine Rice (supposedly less glutton)

Taste: yummy!

Conclusion: you cannot beat home cooking!

Drink: a can of Fanta Zero with a glass of ice.

Seafood!

As I do most weekends, I head over to my girlfriend's place for some good old Korean food!

Meal: dinner (Fri 9/3)

From: girlfriend's kitchen

Cost: free for me!

Location: girlfriend's place

Korean side dishes

Korean Spicy Crab

Baked basa fillet (with homemade tarter sauce).

Taste: delicious and something different than frozen food from my fridge.
Conclusion: I always look forward to the weekend.

Drink: a glass of Dr. Brown's Diet Cream Soda with ice.