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re: Kim chi
#1 · October 19, 2001, 11:35 pm
Posted by: empalo <empalo@...>
Well my love of Korean food goes back a long time.
My two best friends, Seventh Day adventist kids I knew from school, were both
student missionaries their sophmore years in college. I missed them terrible,
as they were off in Korea teaching English. They both would send me
stuff, blankets, those lovely fluffy silky quilts, nothing like that here.
And when they came back home I fell in love with the foods they would
take me to eat. I made Kimchi when I lived at home with my parents, and
my father made me bury it in the snow one time, since it stunk the fridge up
so much. We all laugh about that to this day and that was almost 30 years
ago. My dad says he can still smell it now if he thinks about it !
One friend came home with a great Korean husband their last name is Jo.
Where I live there is a large aisan population about 30miles from us and I
shop there all the time. I grew up with Chinese neighbors so learned to
cook from them as a child, so we eat a rather strange diet. Chinese food,
Tibetan food, Indian food, ( I was engaged to an Indian man before my husband)
and Korean food, and of course Jewish food, very little all american food.
I don't know any easy way to make Kimchee so I make it the way I wrote.
I buy it most often, since its less ummm, fragrant in the house that way.
My two best friends, Seventh Day adventist kids I knew from school, were both
student missionaries their sophmore years in college. I missed them terrible,
as they were off in Korea teaching English. They both would send me
stuff, blankets, those lovely fluffy silky quilts, nothing like that here.
And when they came back home I fell in love with the foods they would
take me to eat. I made Kimchi when I lived at home with my parents, and
my father made me bury it in the snow one time, since it stunk the fridge up
so much. We all laugh about that to this day and that was almost 30 years
ago. My dad says he can still smell it now if he thinks about it !
One friend came home with a great Korean husband their last name is Jo.
Where I live there is a large aisan population about 30miles from us and I
shop there all the time. I grew up with Chinese neighbors so learned to
cook from them as a child, so we eat a rather strange diet. Chinese food,
Tibetan food, Indian food, ( I was engaged to an Indian man before my husband)
and Korean food, and of course Jewish food, very little all american food.
I don't know any easy way to make Kimchee so I make it the way I wrote.
I buy it most often, since its less ummm, fragrant in the house that way.
Wish I could find some nice quilts, but the markets have those fleecy blankets
and not the qults these days. My favorite one was red satin with flowers
embroidered on it. It got holes in it after 20 years and I had to throw it away,
I even have a picture of my niece in the national costume. She looked so cute.
Ahh now I want some kimchi......
lovingly,
Pat