Posted on 04/10/2009 2:51:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Korean kim chi is a version of sauerkraut. It's much spicier than German sauerkraut. I learned to like it when I was in Korea, and occasionally buy some at a local oriental food store.
I don’t remember the brewing the beer, however I knew my mother made home made beer in the basement, for my Danish father. Until she decided she could not keep my two older brothers out of it— She had this thing about them learning to like beer before they knew what it was, they were like 5 and 3 or a bit younger.
I tried making sauerkraut last fall. I screwed it up. I tried again last month and it is delicious. My friend and I have 48 cabbage plants in our garden and I’ll be making more sauerkraut in a couple of months.
Last year my friend and I canned over 530 quarts of veggies. Piccalilli, Sweet Hot Pepper relish, tomatoes, pickled veggies, salsa, and more. I still have over 275 quarts on the shelf.
I just bought 20 dozen more jars for this summer.
It is a sauce to be used on rice. When I was with the R&D Field Unit in Bangkok, we were trying to find ways to air-drop nuoc mam to ARVN outposts. Ceramic jugs would break, and the stuff would eat through metal.
And to think that sick SOB Ayers and his WU comrades used to eat it by choice! To show their 'solidarity' with the North Vietnamese. Thanks for your service in the military.
From American Thinker, September 16, 2008
Article: Obama's Foul Weather Friends
By Scott Swett and Roger Canfield
"As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who [Bernardine] Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he 'left the room to cry.' "
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/obamas_foul_weather_friends.html
Kimchi is an acquired taste. I managed to acquire it back in 1964, but my wife won’t let me keep it around so I only get occasional samples.
As you well know, “much” doesn’t come within miles of how much spicier kimchi is compared to sauerkraut.
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