Korean Munchies

Corn Cheese, Japchae Potstickers, and Iced Matcha Tea

Papa's Birthday Cake

Hello Kitty Chicken Salad

Agliolio

Slice garlic into thin slices, heat low with olive oil. While it's cooking, cook the pasta. When the garlic starts browning, turn off the heat, add a tbsp of pasta water. On a separate plate, toss the spaghetti with chilli flakes, Parmesan cheese, parsley, and the garlic oil. 

Orange Chicken Bento

Japanese Potato Salad with Apple

I made this potato salad the way I usually make Japanese Potato Salad but I added slices of Green Apple to it. Before putting the slices of Apple into the salad, I let it sit in some water with salt added to it so the apple won't turn brown. The apple adds a nice extra crunch to the salad. 

Nachos

Grilled Chicken and Wheat Spaghetti

Parmesan Herb Roasted Potatoes

Preheat oven to 450 degrees

Cut 2 small potatoes in half lengthwise and then into smaller pieces. 

Mix together herbs of your choice with olive oil, sea salt, seasoned pepper. (I used a bit of thyme, rosemary and parsley). Then stir in 1 tbsp Parmesan. Pour all ingredients into ziplock bag, shake well and spread evenly onto tray with foil. 

Bake for 20 minutes

Take out of oven and sprinkle a little bit more Parmesan 

Turn on broiler and broil for 2-3 minutes

Garlic and Tomato Pasta

Brunch Musubi

 Made with yesterday's leftover rice: Teriyaki Spam, Egg, and Turkey Bacon

Scrambled eggs with cheddar cheese

Grilled Teriyaki Tofu

With the leftover Teriyaki sauce that I made earlier, I decided to use it to make grilled teriyaki tofu. I just grilled the tofu and with a brush, I spread the Teriyaki sauce over each piece, flipped it over and proceeded to do the same. 

Teriyaki Pineapple Burger

To make it easier, I used an already made burger and drizzled my homemade teriyaki sauce over it when I was cooking it then added a slice of cheese on top of it, while the burger was grilling, I cooked a slice of pineapple on the side. When they were both cooked, I placed the pineapple on top of the burger and added more teriyaki sauce on top. I made the Teriyaki sauce like I usually do but I added the pineapple juice from the sliced pineapples in the can. Happy National Burger Day!!

Cheesy Garlic Potatoes

Instant Chowmein

Steak & Eggs Breakfast

Sloppy Joes

Steak Dinner

Green Tea Latte

Nectarines and Cream Torte Cake

Today is my mom's birthday so I decided to make her a nectarines n' cream torte birthday cake. 

Green Tea Frappuccino

Bear Pancakes

Tempura Lotus Root

Pate and Fancy Pork Patty for Breakfast

Simple Sunday Lunch

Nori Dashimaki Tamago

Ingredients: 1/4 cup Dashi Stock, 1 tsp Light soy sauce (for light color), 1 tsp soy sauce, 1/4 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tsp mirin, 4 eggs, and toasted nori. 

Smiley Sandwich Bento

Sweet Treats Plate

Sandwich Bento

Pomegranate Fluffy Pancakes

I just used a boxed recipe but I used milk instead of water. I drew the drawing first with the batter and let it cook for a bit then I poured in some more batter to fill up the image. I just had some batter on a spoon and carefully let it drip onto the pan to create the drawing. 

Raisin Bagel Sandwich

Mixed Grain Rice Bento

Pineapple Sausage

Japchae Potsticker Ramen

Chicken Fried Rice and side dishes

Crispy Tofu

Directions: Drain excess liquid from Tofu, pat with corn starch, fry in canola oil, fry twice for extra crispy. 

Vietnamese Fancy Pork Patty and toasted French bread

Japchae Posticker Bento

Cheese Ramen Brunch

Hot Pepper Tuna Kimbap

I really like hot pepper tuna but couldn't find any at the Korean market the two times that I went there and I couldn't find any recipes online so I decided to mix some ingredients together just so I can still have that hot pepper taste with tuna. I didn't want to make a fresh batch of short grain sushi rice, I wanted to make use of old rice (long grain) so I warmed up the rice in the microwave for a minute and heated the sushi seasoning for 20 seconds in the microwave then poured it over the rice and mixed it. 

Sushi Rice: Sushi vinegar, sugar, salt (add according to taste, I used 2tbsp sushi vinegar, 1 tbsp sugar, 1/2 tsp salt) 

Hot Pepper Tuna: 1/2 can Tuna in water, pinch of old bay seasoning, 1 tbsp kewpie mayo, pinch of sugar, 1/2 tsp hot pepper paste (gochujang), dash of sesame oil, 1/2 tsp sesame seeds

Makes 4 Kimbap

Musubi Bites

Honey Ginger Tilapia

Ingredients: Honey, Minced Ginger, Soy Sauce, Olive Oil, Minced Garlic

Spam for Brunch

Sauce: 

-1/4 soy sauce

-1/2 cup brown sugar

-1/2 of a lemon

-2 star anise

-1 tbsp minced ginger

-1 tbsp corn starch or tapioca starch mixed with 1 tbsp water (to thicken the sauce)

Heat all the ingredients and bring to a boil, lastly mix in the corn starch with water. 

Strain the mixture through a sieve.  

Seasoned Dried Squid

This was my first time making Ojingeochae-muchim (Seasoned Dried Squid). This is one of my favorite Korean Banchan (side dish). 

Ingredients: 

-1 lb Cuttlefish 

-1/2 cup gochujang (Korean pepper paste)

-4 cloves minced garlic

-1/3 cup olive oil

-1 tbsp soy sauce

-1/3 cup corn syrup

-2 tbsp sesame oil

-Sesame Seeds for topping

No cooking required, just cut the cuttlefish into smaller pieces, mix the ingredients together first then mix in the cuttlefish. 

Ham and Cheese Tamagoyaki

Smoked Ham and Provolone Cheese Tamagoyaki

Ham and Egg Rosettes

Ingredients: 4 sliced ham, 2 eggs, cheddar cheese, salt and pepper to taste. 

Directions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees F, Spray cupcake pan with cooking oil, beat 4 eggs, add salt and pepper to taste, place, one ham onto each cup of the pan then pour in the egg, sprinkled cheddar cheese, put in oven for 10 minutes, take out of oven and allow 10 minutes to cool then serve. 

Din Din Bento

Brunch bento