Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Beef Casserole & Fried rice

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This Monday evening, I took my friends in my apartment and had a good time. I cooked my food, my friends brought beers. I was thinking all day long which food I would serve for them, and I made up my mind to make beef casserole, fried rice & beef soup.
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I flavored the beef casserole with teriyaki sauce, hot pepper paste, soy sauce, hot pepper powder, soy sauce.. etc..
In the fried rice, I added chopped shrimp, beef, and vegetables(onion, scallion, carrot.. etc).
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I want to erase the spoon on this picture. This spoon is ruining this picture!
In my opinion, the key point to make this food delicious is add plenty of onion, scallion and garlic before heat. These vegetables add juicy flavors to beef when they are heated.
The following is the recipe : http://www.cookscentral.com/recipe.asp?res=1247
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I added chopped shrimp into the fried rice & flavored with soysauce slightly. Because I'm a huge fan of shrimp. Many people says shrimp has lots of cholesterol, but I don't care about that. How can I give up the great taste of shrimp? :)

The following is the recipe : http://www.cookscentral.com/recipe.asp?res=1248

The key point of cooking shrimp is 'don't over cook'. If shrimps are over-cooked, it lose its own tension.

And the following is essential.


Monday, May 14, 2007

Guggenheim Museum

Last weekend, I went to the Guggenheim Museum with my Korean friends. It was really good.


I appreciated about the fact that I can see this 'real' paintings every week.


Pablo Picasso.Women with yellow hair. 1931

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Curry Chicken Salad

Whenever I fry something in my apartment, the smoke detector goes off! However, I don't see any smoke when I fry something. The smoke detector is so sensative. My cousin always advice me turn on the ventilator, but I forgot to turn on the ventilator all the time.

The following food is curry chicken salad.
For me, the two difficult things about frying chicken are making proper batter and knowing the proper temperature of cooking oil.

I believe that the picture of food contains more than recipe.


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tip1 : scattering the bread crums onto the batter makes the fry delicious.
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the following is the recipe of this food : http://www.cookscentral.com/recipe.asp?res=1243

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

soysauce-marinated eggs

I'm not sure I can call this as a cook or not, but I like this marinated eggs very much.
It's so simple, so I think it's good for the lazy person (like me). :)
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tip1 : String is better tool then knife when you cut this boiled eggs.
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the following is the recipe:
http://www.cookscentral.com/recipe.asp?res=1236

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Whitney Museum

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This is my first time of visiting museum in NY. I went to Whitney Museum last Friday evening. It was really good and I have a good time to think about a lot of things.
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George bellows - Dempsey and Firpo. 1924

This was my favorite. I can feel strength from this picture.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Potato wrapped Fried Shrimp

I think shrimp is one of the best ingredient because it's flavour and versatility.
The point of this food is keeping the shrimp's juicy flavor and frying the potato crispy.
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the following is the recipe of this Potato wrapped Fried Shrimp :
http://www.cookscentral.com/recipe.asp?res=1235
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It's hard for me to keep shrimp spring after cooking.
If you have any tips about cooking shrimp, why don't you share with us?
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

biryani

This is not a real Indian biryani. This biryani is made by Korean chef.
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I tasted real india's biryani in India's train. Because of the smell of coriander, I couldn't eat food several days. I just ate fruit and cookie.
However, when I move from Puri to Bangalore by train, I have no choice to eat something to stuff my stomach. I need carbs and protein! I tasted the mutton biryani in the train. The biryani also have corriander in it, but it was really good taste.
And after that experience I ate a lot of biryani in my travel.
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Sometimes I miss the taste of biryani.
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the following is the recipe of chicken biryani :