Category Archives: Korean Food
Making Kimchi… Part (II) dedicated to the Dutch Soccer Team!!!
Dedicated to the World Cup Finalist 2010: Holland! Holland! Holland!
Only 1 game to Victory! 
Life goes on … making kimchi (part I)
With some left over Chinese cabbage from the launch party I decided to make kimchi. Luckily B. was visiting to help me with choosing the right amount of salt. It is a 2-step process. Step 1 (day 1): washing & rubbing salt. Tomorrow step 2 (day 2): make the spicy red pepper paste and mix it with the cabbage. Just in time for the weekend.
It’s Kkakdugi Time!
Disappointed with the loss of Korea against Uruguay yesterday we have no time to feel sorry for ourselves as there are only 6 days left until the launch party. Today I had to prepare kkakdugi kimchi or radish kimchi. Could 4.5 kg be enough to fill tacos for a maximum of 75/100 Korean taco craving visitors?
Our Tofu Taco filling is here!
We are not great food-porn photographers and probably never will be. What we can do is to get you taste the real thing instead of let you drool on a picture. ^ ^
The result of our T3-day: Tofu in soy-lime marinade covered in a light bread crumb crunch with a Japanese black bean topping (kudos to my buddy Tim!). Together with the onion-chilantro relish/Korean red pepper chili sauce/ lettuce and wrapped in a house made Mexican tortilla. Although we did try several other recipes with tofu and fish. We both agreed only to serve food of which we’re 100% satisfied. So the only new menu item for now is the Tofu Taco. As our experiments will be continued we’re proud to serve a great taco to our vegetarian friends at the launch party.
T3-Day = Thursday Taco Testing Day
Having both a full time job, Tim and I are not able to spend unlimited amount of time on testing new recipes. On Thursdays while Tim’s wife K. is working, he’s taking care of his sons and cooking diner. Therefore we regularly use the Thursdays for testing and discussing Korean food. As we almost finalized our recipe for the Korean Kalbi Taco, we want to start experimenting with other taco recipes, like a vegetarian and a fish taco. While we haven’t found today what we were looking for, many ideas popped up during the evening. So… to be continued at the next T3-Day!
Surprisssse!!!! (someone ordered Korean Tacos?)
Last Saturday KoreanTacoParty and Arierang (Association of Korean Adoptees in the Netherlands) organized a surprise try-out for 30 people in the picturesque town called Apeldoorn. It’s a public secret that the average Korean adoptee looves Korean food and is highly critical. So Tim and I were very eager to know their opinion. Based on the responses, I think we passed. So we will continue our quest with a big SMILE
Until our launch party on July 3, we will take a break (although we won’t stop experimenting to create more delicious treats!)
Random pictures, Saturday thoughts….
The fridge is looking so much more organized than yesterday ^ ^. Today the onion relish and lettuce dressing will be prepared. As for the final step we’re going to make the Pure Red Smoothies (made from fresh water melons and pure pine apple juice) by Sunday morning together with the first batch of dough for the tortillas. So we can serve immediately once we’re set-up at the CinemAsia location. Can’t wait for tomorrow!
More pictures on the Flickr photo stream
Preparing cabbage kimchi
Important for making cabbage kimchi is rubbing the cabbage leaves with course (sea) salt, which will take the water out from the cabbage ( instead of putting the cabbage into salted water). After washing the salt from the cabbage the red pepper paste is put between the cabbage leaves. Then it should be put aside to let the fermentation process start. Usually after 2-3 days you can recognize the typical kimchi smell. ^ ^
Sunday’s menu (5 days to D-day)
No big suprise here. We will start with 1 item and a drink. (The Pure Red Smoothie is a classic(!) smoothie from Tim’s former fruit venture). In time more dishes (we have some great ideas!!) will be added to our menu. So keep in touch with us through this blog, Twitter and Facebook. We hope to see you soon!
Domingo & Tim
