SheenaGreena

thats stir fried julienned potato with minimal seasoning, salt, oil, and sesame seeds. sorry for all the posts, I want to make sure the fat guy gets all of his info right!

tomatoes aren't traditionally used in korean cooking. If you were to give a tomato to my grandmother, she would sprinkle sugar on it and eat it like an apple maybe the tomatos were chilis? salted fish with watercress sounds like it would be in a soup to me, cause watercress and fish are traditionally served in hotpots/stews.

the only squid I've seen served as panchan is spicy raw squid or strips of dried seasoned cuttlefish and thats closely related to squid? if they served you cold oijeongo bokum, thats really weird. I'm not sure what the literal translation of "bokkeum" is, but I'm sure it's "fried" or "stir fried" and oijeongo is squid

you know what I eat for my birthday? I fix a bowl of seaweed soup for myself and that's it. It's traditional to eat a bowl of it for your birthday and since I don't live with my parents anymore, I have to make it myself. water beef dashida hijiki seaweed garlic I know that you like to make ELABORATE feasts for your birthday, but what were the traditional birthday dishes you ate growing up?

thanks for the kind words (: one of these days when I have a few youngins around, I'll definitely teach them differently from what my mom taught (sorry mom!). When I was little, I remember my mom putting food in her mouth and then putting it back in mine. I heard this causes cavities? I can't remember why she put the food in her mouth though? maybe to soften it up? cool it down?

GRELLA SIZE you are right about the first winners, I think they are stuck on sunday mornings at around 8:00....but I don't even know for sure if they are still on at all? guy is doing way better on the other hand with his diner drive ins and dives and his other show.

I do what your roommate did. I leave chicken stock out all night, heat it up, leave it out, heat it up, so on and so forth. When it starts smell funky, that's when I start to worry. I actually did the chicken broth thing last night and its really freakin hot out, it's gonna be up to 90 today

Unfortunately Sheena, torakris lives in Japan where they actually practice good hygene, a forgotten art in America I'm afraid. If you know a good farm I'm sure you could get away with it however. I wouldn't eat just any ole raw chicken however. Food safety standards are high in some places, low in others, the same as they are low in America for some things and high for others. ← yeah, if I was in japan I'd feel safe eating raw chicken....but I still eat raw, non organic, eggs from the grocery store.

that reminds me of this chinese woman from last week who was digging through every box of strawberries for the "perfect" ones. She took one from each box and put them all together in another box. She was pretty ballsy, I was thinking to myself that I wish I could do that, but I might get yelled at. whats up with asian women and grocery shopping? they certainly know what they are doing However when I'm picking greenbeans I take my sweet time and inspect half a handful at a time.

I like raw meat and when I cook my own steaks I do like them raw/lukewarm/slightly chilled all throughout and blackened on the outside. why not raw chicken or pork? I heard it tastes good...at least torakris thinks so

oijengo bokum is not considered banchan. Its actually considered a main meat dish like kalbi or bulgogi whats up with odeng being gefilte fish? do you mean sliced fish cake? if it was meant to be a joke, I didn't get it

your korean spelling is spot on. not to nitpick (don't know if you care or not), but kkak du gi is radish kimchi that doesn't have the radish tops and is always cubed. There are other forms of radish kimchi with different names for more namul panchan, how about gosari- fernbracken doraji - bellflower root and don't forget candied black beans (forget the name) and baby sugared anchovies

you know what's going to happen? I'm going to eat a piece of lettuce later and fall terribly ill, because I exposed my bad habits to the world

In my household I grew up eating cold pizza the next day for breakfast. The pizza stayed out on the counter all night (unrefridgerated) and we ate it the next day without heating it up. We also did and my parents (and I) still leave our rotisserie chicken out all night and pick at it the next day. I have horrible horrible food safety habits. Sometimes I won't even bother washing my fruit (I rarely buy organic). Yesterday I grabbed a nectarine out of the fridge and just ate it as is. i have only had food poisoning twice in my life and both times were in korea. One of the times was from eating fresh off the rotisserie chicken 3 years ago. Do I not get sick out of pure luck or because I have an iron stomach and because it's used to eating "bad'' food? however i won't leave out raw meat for long periods of time, so I am good about that. how do you guys take care of the food you eat? Are you batshit crazy like me? or are you incredibly anal like my boyfriend. He won't even use the same plate twice, even if he only ate a slice of plain toast off of it. Apparently toast has a lot of germs.

finally! someone on egullet that's younger than me (whewwww). your passion fruit truffles look exactly like yomogi mochi rolled in kinako. btw, how long does it take to fly from the Pacific NW to austraila?

ohhhhhh is peter green blogging in thailand?

I always pick from the back (I learned that from my mother) and good thing I do, because I never knew about that FIFO system (ughh reminds me of my accounting class).

giada's boobs are getting bigger and grown men cry on this show whats not to love? j/k I actually hate it but my boyfriend and I still watch it (cause there is no more family guy)

That awesome!! And a bit revolting. Thanks for sharing. I once had a dream that I made and ate a giant scotch egg, but I hadn't considered it could be an ostrich egg. I figured it was a giant chicken from HG Wells' "Food of the Gods". I've always wanted to make a basket of spicy wings but use big turkey wings instead of chicken, now I'm thinking Ostrich! ← I believe there is a large version of a scotch egg on pimp that snack ← Now there's a show that speaks to me! (PS I liked your old avatar) ← the one where I'm digging for gold and snacks? ← Ya-hun ← thanks, I like to switch it up with the japanese dwarf flying squirrel. I'm a big fan of funny pictures. How much mayo went into that deviled egg? I bet his breath and farts stunk for a week. Deviled egg farts, ew gross

Their arrangement of produce bothers you more than the 300% markup? ← oh yeah that too. I shop there maybe 3 times a year. I am fine with good ol' stop n shop

I had a really nasty virus on my pc that basically made it shit the bed. I switched over to a mac a few months ago and I absolutely love it, I couldn't ask for anything better. I don't know if I'd run a virtual pc on it though, because I am wondering if you can get pc viruses through it? is there any other recipe manager software for a mac that's free?

I am like your wife, and I am one of those people who smells their produce too. I hate whole foods produce displays for this reason, its hard to move stuff around without messing up the displays or knocking over a ton of stuff in the process.

the inside of the banana peel makes the inside of my mouth dry up and pucker! I like the feeling, but i never ate it before just for fun. eta: just read the article and it was awesome, thanks rona & sheena - eating bananas the right way

I do that too and I heard that that was how monkeys ate their bananas. Why the heck wouldn't you peel from the soft end anyways, I mean its a lot easier to hold the banana from the other end, right? we don't eat it the weird way, we eat it the RIGHT way!! sometimes I will eat an entire peanut or sunflower seed WHOLE. I mean shell and all, I am too lazy to peel and plus my dad says its good for you because of all the fiber (he eats his peanuts like this).

That awesome!! And a bit revolting. Thanks for sharing. I once had a dream that I made and ate a giant scotch egg, but I hadn't considered it could be an ostrich egg. I figured it was a giant chicken from HG Wells' "Food of the Gods". I've always wanted to make a basket of spicy wings but use big turkey wings instead of chicken, now I'm thinking Ostrich! ← I believe there is a large version of a scotch egg on pimp that snack ← Now there's a show that speaks to me! (PS I liked your old avatar) ← the one where I'm digging for gold and snacks?