Kim Shook

I want to make this bread as rolls. Can I just shape them into rolls in step 7 instead of placing in a loaf pan and let them do the final rise? If so, do I let them rise for the same amount of time or less? Thank you!

Thank you everyone for all the information! We haven't completely figured out what days we are doing what, but as soon as I do, I'll plug in all of these ideas. As far as what type of food we want, for the more casual meals like I said pub meals, 'traditional British' (thanks for the fish and chips advice, John). Also, Mr. Kim loves Indian food and we are pretty adventuresome eaters. For the special 'thank you' meal the menu should include lots of non-red meat choices for our friend. He's not really super 'into' food, but loves French food and classic preparations. Jenni - I have a question about your recommendation for one of the Sofra restaurants. You said to go for breakfast, but the website only mentions a breakfast menu at the St. Christopher's Place location. Do you know if that is the case? Also - they look and sound nice enough for our 'thank you' dinner. Do you think so?

That's fine - I really think that the fish and chips is a good idea anyway. Thanks also for the off-licence recommendation - I am not a beer drinker (though, Mr. Kim is) and I'm sure that I'll be drinking a lot of cider on our trip!

It looks and sounds great. Since we are leaving Dorchester that morning and planning to spend a lot of the day wandering the Forest, I think it will be perfect. Thanks so much, John!

ap - Steamers sounds perfect, but when I went to the website, it said that they were closed on Sundays. Maybe we can pick up that fish and chips you were mentioning and take it to her house. She might even prefer that. Jenni - thank you, ma'am! Sotanos is going on the list!

Thanks, Tim. I would dearly love to eat at your place!! I went to the website when I first asked for help and you responded and it looks truly amazing. I'm really sorry that it won't work out for us this trip. I've put The Perch and The Trout on our Oxford list - I went to their websites and they both look wonderful.

Our trip to England that I’ve posted about is finally SET! We have all of our transportation and accommodations and now I need to know where to eat. I have done lots of searching here and have gotten some good information, but our trip has gotten pretty specific by now and so I thought I’d post those questions. I am going to put a few different posts in with the same 1st paragraph to explain, but if I’ve made a mistake in doing that I’m sure that someone will tell me! We are going to be doing a lot of rambling – and will have a car (except in London), so we’d prefer places that are more casual (we’ll likely be wearing jeans or khakis/chinos – I don’t know what you all call them – tan trousers), that don’t need reservations. We’d love information on anything that we shouldn’t miss including pubs, pub meals, afternoon tea, fish and chips, etc. - breakfast, lunch and dinner. Thank you all so much for your help! We’ll be leaving Dorchester in the morning and driving through the New Forest to Winchester. We’ll be staying at the Lainston House that night. We’ll only have dinner that night and then breakfast and lunch the next day before we have to drive back to Heathrow to return the car by 5:30pm. Does anyone know anything about the restaurant at Lainston House? Since we may getting into Winchester fairly late, it might be good for us to have dinner there that night, if it is worth a visit.

Our trip to England that I’ve posted about is finally SET! We have all of our transportation and accommodations and now I need to know where to eat. I have done lots of searching here and have gotten some good information, but our trip has gotten pretty specific by now and so I thought I’d post those questions. I am going to put a few different posts in with the same 1st paragraph to explain, but if I’ve made a mistake in doing that I’m sure that someone will tell me! We are going to be doing a lot of rambling – and will have a car (except in London), so we’d prefer places that are more casual (we’ll likely be wearing jeans or khakis/chinos – I don’t know what you all call them – tan trousers), that don’t need reservations. We’d love information on anything that we shouldn’t miss including pubs, pub meals, afternoon tea, fish and chips, etc. - breakfast, lunch and dinner. Thank you all so much for your help! On Sunday, we’ll be driving from Dorchester in the morning through Lyme Regis and on to Beer. We are seeing my aunt, who lives in Beer. I’m not sure yet what time she’ll be available, though I suspect lunchtime – so any good places for lunch in Beer? She is elderly and almost blind (bright lights would bother her eyes) – so somewhere quiet. So depending on her availability, we could be in Lyme Regis anytime. We want to see the shore, so ideas off the track of ‘Dorchester/Lyme Regis/Beer’ in that direction would be wonderful.

Our trip to England that I’ve posted about is finally SET! We have all of our transportation and accommodations and now I need to know where to eat. I have done lots of searching here and have gotten some good information, but our trip has gotten pretty specific by now and so I thought I’d post those questions. I am going to put a few different posts in with the same 1st paragraph to explain, but if I’ve made a mistake in doing that I’m sure that someone will tell me! We are going to be doing a lot of rambling – and will have a car (except in London), so we’d prefer places that are more casual (we’ll likely be wearing jeans or khakis/chinos – I don’t know what you all call them – tan trousers), that don’t need reservations. We’d love information on anything that we shouldn’t miss including pubs, pub meals, afternoon tea, fish and chips, etc. - breakfast, lunch and dinner. Thank you all so much for your help! We will be driving from Cirencester in the morning going to Avebury and Stonehenge and then on to Salisbury. We’ll have almost an entire day in Salisbury – driving down to Dorchester that night.

Our trip to England that I’ve posted about is finally SET! We have all of our transportation and accommodations and now I need to know where to eat. I have done lots of searching here and have gotten some good information, but our trip has gotten pretty specific by now and so I thought I’d post those questions. I am going to put a few different posts in with the same 1st paragraph to explain, but if I’ve made a mistake in doing that I’m sure that someone will tell me! We are going to be doing a lot of rambling – and will have a car, so we’d prefer places that are more casual (we’ll likely be wearing jeans or khakis/chinos – I don’t know what you all call them – tan trousers), that don’t need reservations. We’d love information on anything that we shouldn’t miss including pubs, pub meals, afternoon tea, fish and chips, etc. – breakfast, lunch and dinner. Thank you all so much for your help! We’ll only be in Oxford part of one day and will be doing a tour from 2pm – 4pm. We may also be meeting a cousin who is a new professor at the university for a drink, so ideas for that would be nice, since he may not know of good places yet. We’ll be driving from Oxford to Cirencester (where we will be staying for the next two days) that afternoon/evening. We’ll need dinner somewhere – Oxford? Cirencester or somewhere along the way? So we’ll have two full days in the Cotswolds – staying in a cottage in Cirencester. We’ll be going to Painswick, Bourton-on-the-Water, Bibury, Chipping Camden and Upper & Lower Slaughter (doing ‘The Ramble’). The cottage is self-catering, so if there is somewhere amazing to buy supplies, I might be willing to cook a meal.

Our trip to England that I’ve posted about is finally SET! We have all of our transportation and accommodations and now I need to know where to eat. I have done lots of searching here and have gotten some good information, but our trip has gotten pretty specific by now and so I thought I’d post those questions. I am going to put a few different posts in with the same 1st paragraph to explain, but if I’ve made a mistake in doing that I’m sure that someone will tell me! We are going to be doing a lot of rambling – and will have a car (except in London), so we’d prefer places that are more casual (we’ll likely be wearing jeans or khakis/chinos – I don’t know what you all call them – tan trousers), that don’t need reservations. We’d love information on anything that we shouldn’t miss including pubs, pub meals, afternoon tea, fish and chips, etc. - breakfast, lunch and dinner. Thank you all so much for your help! We’ll be in London 3 days (including a Sunday) and 4 nights, staying with a friend between Hyde Park and Regent’s Park. Our sightseeing will take us all over, of course – Windsor Castle, Covent Garden, Portobello Market, British Museum, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral. We do need one nice evening meal – a ‘thank you’ to the friend we are staying with who is saving us from having to pay the incredible hotel rates in London! He doesn’t eat red meat at all.

I work in a doctor's office, so the drug reps occasionally bring goodies - KK donuts, crates of clementines, McD's yogurt parfaits, sacks of Chick Fil A chicken sandwiches (very popular). I bring in cakes for everyone's birthday and make them for Mr. Kim's staff, too. I also bring leftovers from holidays and dinner parties - usually sweets. Last week's leftover strawberry cheesecake went over very well. Tomorrow each office is getting a gallon bag of Jaymes' caramel corn. I've been craving it and made a batch today. If it stays here, I will eat it all myself. The last time I brought it, the bag was empty before lunch! Amazing stuff.

Deena - that coffee cake looks perfect! I printed out the recipe to try soon (I hope).

Robirdstx – I haven’t had porcupine meatballs in forever! They were a staple as a newlywed and I need to make them again – they look really good. Dejah – So happy to see the duck results. I have 4 breast in the freezer waiting for me to decide what to do with them and your preparation idea sounds and looks fantastic. Dcarch – I love your regiment of strawberries! Blether – so funny that you should mention ‘faggots’. We are going to England in May and someone gave us glossary of common British terms. One of the words was ‘faggots’ – for sausages, they say. I know that England and America are "two nations divided by a common language", but I read about food a LOT and have an English stepdad and I’d NEVER heard that word (meaning THAT) before. And now, two days later, I see it again. Kayb - Here is the recipe for the cheesecake. I want to try the same recipe with blackberries this summer. Tracey – your NC dinner sounds fantastic! What lucky guests. For dinner last night Mr. Kim requested shepherd’s pie: I piped the potatoes – rosettes, which don’t show up very well after adding the cheese. I think that next time I’ll try piping in strips like you do, Marlene, which seem to look better. We had it with broccoli and yellow squash: My other project yesterday was making chicken stock. Now that I’ve started doing stock in my slow cooker, I am doing it much more often. I just roast my bones and veg and toss it all in the cooker overnight. In the morning, I let it cool, strain and refrigerate it and defat that evening. It’s very nice having it in the freezer. I was lucky to find a package of chicken backs at the store: They also had some feet (wonderfully labeled “chicken paws” – less scary, I suppose), but they kind of squicked out Mr. Kim, so I decided to forgo them. All ready for the oven with veg, seasoning and a olive oil/tomato paste slurry: All roasty-good:

rarerollingobject – your cauliflower is gorgeous! And I’m adding some citrus and bacon to mine next time – great idea! Is the bacon cooked prior to going in with the cauliflower? I do a roasted cauliflower and fennel dish that would be wonderful with the citrus and bacon. Hmmmm. Ann – isn’t it wonderful to have a pot of beans? Honestly, if you start the week with a pot of beans and a roasted chicken, you can feast all week and have something different every night! Lovely tacos! For dinner last night, I did a beef version of the Ramen noodle and chicken stir fry that I made the other night: I also tossed in some green onions and some leftover peas and onions that I served on Monday. We really like this a lot. I also repeated the cucumber, radish, rice wine vinegar and black salt ‘salad’:

Wow! I want that for dinner tonight. I love the neighborly help that you describe. And how utterly LA-ish to help AND have fun AND feast while doing it.

It is almost 1:30 in the morning and I have to be at work in 6 hours. But I sat here and read this entire blog from start to finish in one sitting. I haven't had a moment to read this all week and I have been looking forward to it so much. Everything that you've written and cooked and shown us has been fabulous and I'm so glad that you are blogging! Thank you for welcoming us into your home and life! Bless you for championing LA and for being such a good daughter and friend and sister! Can't wait for the rest, but I GOTTA get some sleep ! PS - I got one of those stupid grating plates for Christmas. I just keep it in the kitchen so I don't hurt the giver's feelings, but I knew better than to use it. Just EXACTLY the kind of thing that a non-cook thinks is the perfect gift for a cook, bless their hearts.

This is so funny, and a reminder that our world is shrinking - when I went to Amazon to get the link to the wonderful pan that I made my cheesecake in for Marlene, who should the first reviewer be but our own andiesenji!

Robyn – Happy Belated Birthday. If I could bake like that, I’d ALWAYS make my own cake! deensiebat – I am making those macaroons! Better than an Almond Joy sounds like my kind of heaven! minas – your cheesecake topping is absolutely gorgeous. I know EXACTLY how it was done and I KNOW that I do not have the hand control to do it! Bravo! For a dinner party the other night, I made Martha Stewart’s Roasted Strawberry Cheesecake: I made it in one of those new cheesecake pans with the tempered glass bottom and silicone side. This is an amazing pan and I’ve never made a more beautiful or more easily unmolded cheesecake. The bottom is lovely and clear and you can serve right from it. Top shot: Side shot: BITE: I made this last week to serve this Monday and froze it in the meantime – which is another reason that I love cheesecake – they freeze so beautifully!

Dejah – those mussels and clams look incredible. And I don’t know that it is appropriate to Thai food, but I’d want a big baguette to soak up all of that lovely looking sauce! Dianne – I’m not sure that we could even get any decent halibut here in Virginia, but I really want Ann’s fish, too! kayb – the meatballs look wonderful – they are something that I want to make soon! Dcarch – your St. P’s day dinner was delicious looking, but the green pepper shamrocks made me smile! I’m stealing that idea! And, just so I understand – your meatloaves were cooked INSIDE the Napa cabbage leaves? The leaves look roast-y on the ends. It sounds fantastic! (And, needless to say, looks gorgeous). Emily – your pancetta is beautiful and what a lovely ingredient to have on hand! Ann – your ribs look perfect. Mine always end up too done for me, but everyone says “they’re perfect – falling off the bone”. Sigh. My parents were up from NC while we were in the Outer Banks celebrating our 29th wedding anniversary last weekend. They were here hosting a little reunion with some family. Momma and Ted stayed an extra couple of days so that we could have a visit and my in laws came over for dinner on Monday night. To nibble on, I served garlic toasts and cipollini dip: Dinner was ribs: Corn casserole: Chick Fil A slaw: Peas and caramelized onions: Plate: And dessert was a roasted strawberry cheesecake: Since the dinner was on a weeknight, I needed something easy to get ready quickly. The ribs were in a slow cooker all day and then just crisped up in a hot oven last minute. The casserole goes together and cooks in about an hour. The slaw was purchased (I love Chick Fil A’s slaw), the onions were caramelized Sunday night and microwaved before adding to the peas and I made the cheesecake last week and had it in the freezer. I haven’t cooked a meal since! We ordered food in on Tuesday night, last night Mr. Kim and I grabbed comfort food (cheeseburgers and fried chicken) at a local joint and tonight he’s working so late that think I’ll just pull out some crackers and cheese!

Yes, definitely worthwhile, but a couple of caveats: in order to get the hot dog to fit, you have to use a kaiser roll and a huge amount of beef (assuming you like a thick burger). I made these for my dad and my brother, so that was no issue, but the tiny missus might not be able to finish 1/3 of it. I think it's brilliant! And to get it to 'fit' a bun and a normal sized burger, you could just cut each dog half in half again (crosswise) and use three half halfs (is this making ANY sense?). Then you'd get burger and dog in each bite and no flopping dog hanging over the side.

Y'all come to DC and we will meet you at Citronelle anyTIME!!! That just sounds like an amazing meal.

Thank you! Those are just crumbled, buttered Ritz crackers. I tried to find rye crackers, but couldn't.

Dinner tonight was Reuben Dip: Swiss cheese, cream cheese, 1000 Island dressing, mayo and corned beef. I made this for a St. Patrick’s day potluck at work today and there was some leftover. Also: Shriner Brunswick stew. They sell the stew every year as a fund raiser. It’s not bad, if you fix it up a little.

I actually used this the other night and liked the results very much. Here is the post. It melts beautifully and adds a nice richness without being super tangy like cream cheese. I've only used the plain so far, but a co-worker used the Southwestern flavor to make enchiladas and liked it. I'm thinking that thinned with a little stock, it could replace the dreaded "Cream of..." soups in some of my old favorite casseroles that I don't make anymore.