Means from Monday, January 31, 2011

Monday, January 31, 2011

BREAKFAST

(from the breakfast card around the corner from my office)

Onion bagel with cream cheese ($2.50 with a large coffee)

Taste: acceptable, would have been better toasted.

LUNCH

(my girlfriend packed me something to bring to the office)

Some Korean side dishes with white rice.

Taste: pretty good, not too flavorful, but not bland either, definitely filling.

DINNER

(at home)

My girlfriend gave me a container of fried rice she made, I have half for dinner.

Taste: delicious, light and not too heavy.

My parents fried some frozen dumplings, I had some for dinner as well.

Taste: greasy and will be the reason I have a heart attack.

It's Kalbi time!

Meal: dinner (Sat 11/13)

From: my girlfriend's kitchen

Cost: N/A

Location: my girlfriend's place

You can never go wrong with some delicious kalbi!

Some Korean side dishes and stuff for the kalbi (lettuce, onions, garlic, bean sauce).

Kalbi (Korean BBQ short ribs)

Taste: just one word, AWESOME!

Conclusion: the best Korean food around.

Drink: ice water.

Kalbi bi@tch!

Meal: dinner (Sun 10/24)

From: my girlfriend's kitchen

Cost: N/A

Location: my girlfriend's place

During our brief stay at Costco we bought some beef... used to make kalbi!

Korean Side Dishes

Kalbi (Korean BBQ Beef)

Taste: absolutely delicious!

Conclusion: you can never go wrong with Korean BBQ!

Drink: a can of Orange Fanta Zero with ice.

SCALLOPS!

Meal: dinner (Fri 10/22)

From: my girlfriend's kitchen

Cost: N/A

Location: my girlfriend's place

I LOVE scallops!

Scallops! 

Korean Side Dishes

Taste: the scallops were cooked in a butter garlic sauce, absolutely DELICIOUS!!!
Conclusion: I LOVE SCALLOPS!

Drink: ice water

Korean Leftovers for Lunch

Meal: lunch (Mon 10/18)

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

Cost: N/A (i.e. free for me)

Location: my kitchen

Per usual on Monday, I had some nice left overs from Sunday night dinner at my girlfriend's place.

Korean Food

(there is some bulgogi in there)

Taste: I did not eat breakfast so I was starving, and this was definitely good.

Conclusion: I wish I could eat like this everyday...

Drink: a cold can of Coke Zero.

Back to Basics

Meal: dinner (Sun 10/17)

From: my girlfriend's place

Cost: N/A

Location: Queens

After an unhealthy breakfast/lunch it was back to a simple Korean dinner.

Taste: everything was good.

Conclusion: I was still full from lunch but I managed to eat a good amount.

Drink: ice water

Dinner, Saturday, October 16

Meal: dinner (Sat 10/16)

From: my girlfriend's place

Cost: N/A

Location: Queens

Dinner:

Korean Food!

Dessert:

Maple Cookies!

Taste: everything was okay to good.

Conclusion: the maple cookies made my day!

Drink: ice water

Dinner, Friday, October 15

Meal: dinner (Fri 10/15)

From: my girlfriend's fridge

Cost: N/A

Location: my girlfriend's kitchen

It was Friday night and time for another installment of Korean food for my stomach.

Fried Spicy Korean Beef with Korean Side Dishes

Taste: the beef is one of my favorite dishes...

Conclusion: I was full and satisfied after the meal.

Drink: ice water

Best dinner in a while...

Meal: dinner (Sun 10/10)

From: my girlfriend's kitchen

Cost: N/A

Location: my girlfriend's place

Another Sunday night... another homemade Korean dinner... another Monday and 4 weekdays filled with unfulfilling dinners...

 Korean Side Dishes

 Breaded Fried Fish and Korean Spicy Fried Beef

Jasmine Rice

Taste: the Korean spicy fried beef is one of my favorites and it did not disappoint. The breaded fish was pretty good too.
Conclusion: after dinner I was as happy as a clam.

Drink: ice water.

I grew tired of drinking out of reused Dunkin' Donuts iced coffee cups so I decided to get me and my girlfriend reusable (BPA free) plastic cups with straws.

Saturday Night Dinner

Meal: dinner (Sat 10/9)

From: my girlfriend's kitchen

Cost: N/A

Location: my girlfriend's place

Saturday night, time for some more Korean food.

A birds eye view...

(Korean side dishes)

Korean Beef Blood Sausage

Pig Leg

Korean Beef Blood Soup

Jasmine Rice

Taste: I did not like the blood soup that much, it was a bit too spicy. Everything else was pretty good though.

Conclusion: I was still happy from my lunch at Five Guys Burgers, so no complaints.

Drink: ice water

Korean Stuffed Chicken Soup

Meal: dinner (Fri 10/8)

From: my girlfriend's fridge

Cost: N/A

Location: my girlfriend's kitchen

It was Friday, time for some good home cooked Korean food.

Along with the usual Korean side dishes, I had an entire chicken (Korean stuffed chicken soup). Inside the chicken is sticky rice. The soup had ginseng and dates.

Taste: tasted really really good.
Conclusion: the soup was great, no complaints!

Drink: ice water

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

Korean Leftovers Pt. 1

Meal: lunch (Mon 10/4)

From: my girlfriend's fridge

Cost: (to me) free

Location: my girlfriend's kitchen

I had some more of those Korean wedding leftovers for lunch...

Potatoes soaked in syrup

Lotus root soaked in syrup

Sprouts wrapped in beef

Fried shrimp

Beef pancake

Fish cooked in egg

(some other Korean side dishes)

Jasmine rice

Taste: really good of course!

Conclusion: no complaints here!

Drink: a can of Coke Zero

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.

Korean Dinner at Home

Meal: lunch (Sun 10/3)

From: my girlfriend's fridge

Cost: absolutely free!

Location: my girlfriend's place

So my girlfriend's parents went to a Korean weddings on Saturday night. Apparently afterwards, any left over food is up for grabs, in fact they caterers provide you with takeout containers and it is a free for all to grab as much as you want.

There was some bibimbap left in my girlfriend's fridge from another meal.

A ton of Korean side dishes including: jelly fish, potatoes soaked in syrup, sprouts wrapped in beef, beef pancake, etc.

Taste: everything was great.
Conclusion: free and good, obviously no complaints.

Drink: a can of Coke Zero with ice.

Homemade Korean Dinner

Meal: dinner (Fri 10/1)

From: my girlfriend's fridge

Cost: N/A

Location: my girlfriend's kitchen

After a few days of "crap" food, getting some homemade Korean food at my girlfriend's house was a definitely welcomed.

Korean Side Dishes

Pork Neck with Tofu

Pork Neck with Kimchi

Jasmine Rice

Taste: very good
Conclusion: no complaints here!


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