So many of you know how much I love to cook! Cooking is a big part of how I relieve stress (though sometimes it adds to it!) because it allows me to be creative, it allows me to try something new, and most importantly it allows me to eat! I have been very excited to begin cooking Korean food because there are many things here that I like that I have never really made or seen made back home.
The first thing I made is called 찐빵 만두 (Jjinppang mandu), which is basically a steamed pork bun. The outside is a spongy, fluffy breading made with flour while the inside can be a multitude of things. I went along with the recipes filling and stayed traditional. Pork, sesame oil, carrots, mushrooms, onions, and chili peppers however, I imagine you could put just about anything inside these suckers. They take some time but are really simple and if I can make them here with my limited kitchen resources, you can surely do it. The only difficult thing may be the steaming part, but really all you need to so is fill a huge pot with a little water and put a metal rack or colander inside.
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UPDATE: After making this amazing dish and then writing about it, I decided to use my brand-new mandolin slicer to make potato chips. In the process of doing this I sliced off the front of my index finger! I mean this thing bled all night and the next day. Needless to say I am now on painkillers, with a stitch, and no fingerprint but yeah for cooking!
ouch! Trevan, sorry about the finger. It will probably heal fine but it's so inconvenient to have a cut on your finger (done it many times over the years). Good job on the cooking. Very impressive. Hope it tasted as good as it looks. Keep blogging; it's great to hear your "voice".
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