Posted on 12/01/2020 4:14:05 PM PST by Jamestown1630
To those who know Kimchi, this may seem like a joke – but it’s not.
I first learned to love kimchi when I had it made by a friend’s Oma 30-odd years ago, and I got pretty spoiled on the home-made stuff. We occasionally find jarred, refrigerated kimchis that can rival home-made in local supermarket produce aisles, but not reliably; and getting to the closest ethnic market is a traffic/parking nightmare.
I happened to see the Jayone pictured above in a local store, and bought it just for larks – but to my surprise, it’s actually very good! It may lack a certain element of fizz-and-zing that you experience with the ‘real’ stuff, but for a very unexpected canned variety, we liked it a lot. If you can’t find fresh, and aren’t up for the complicated project of making your own, this may somewhat assuage your addiction if you can find it somewhere nearby. Open up, transfer to a glass container, and chill well.
(My husband doesn't think it's 'hot and spicy' enough - but maybe it can be doctored to personal taste ;-)
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I recently had a birthday, and got some very nice presents. One of them was a Taiyaki iron.
Taiyaki is a popular little fish-shaped Japanese waffle-like cake, usually stuffed with sweetened red bean paste – but often also stuffed with custard, chocolate, Nutella or fruit preserves. It’s a popular street food in Japan, and you can buy little irons for making them, for home use. I haven’t tried it yet, and I’ve read that they don’t work real well on an electric stovetop, though some say they’ve managed it. (If the electric stove doesn’t work, I’ve got one of those little butane- burning ‘hot plates’ to try – watch this space.)
http://chefiso.com/p/taiyaki-recipe/
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I’ve always loved Gordon Lightfoot’s music – he’s a poet-singer in a very old tradition of storytellers. I’ve especially liked his song, ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’.
But I realized the other day that I didn’t really know much about the Edmund Fitzgerald and her story; so I found this – the 45th anniversary of her sinking was just a few weeks ago - and this is a very moving video. (I got almost to the end, thinking that YouTube at least had the good grace to not interrupt certain types of vids with commercial ads; but alas…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5i_XMqdULM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A
Millions of men – and women – all over the world brave the dangers of the seas to ensure the economies, food needs, and defense of their respective countries and communities. Even in the modern world of steel ships and boats and high technology, it takes a lot of grit to do a job like that.
-JT
And submariners are an entirely different breed of ‘sailor’; I appreciate your opinion very much :-)
What store is that????
Funny!
I only like calamari deep fried. Squid or calamari prepared any other way doesn’t sound appetizing to me.
But open to suggestions.....
H-Mart.
Well, that’s another traffic nightmare, in my area; but someday I’ll venture...
I could eat my weight in mussels. You covered so much in this thread. You are a renaissance woman. Those fish are beautiful.
I'm also planning to make Chocolate Cinnamon Rolls. I mastered chocolate babka for Thanksgiving and everyone loved it. So, these are little mini-babkas that also look amazing.
A Recipe for Moules Mariniere:
http://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/12718/mussels-mariniere/
It’s nice if you have one of those pans with the screen to separate out debris from the dunking juice - but you don’t need it. The average kitchen strainer does the same job very well.
https://www.target.com/p/staub-cast-iron-2-qt-mussel-pot/-/A-76186870?preselect=76080864#lnk=sametab
little olive oil, garlic, red pepper flakes, mussels, marinara, linguini!!!
You mean ‘Whole Paycheck’?
I can probably get it for half the price - or less - at local ethnic stores.
I’ve probably eaten catfish without knowing it, and enjoyed it.
But the only time I bought and cooked catfish myself, I couldn’t get over the ‘furry’ image I’d gathered from my brother’s childhood aquarium and it’s pleco. I kept feeling like I was eating mouse.
I guess I need an expert to cook it for me and disabuse me of those associations...
Yep.
Even pond raised catfish are delicious.
I forgot the white wine and butter but what the hell..
45 years ago was when Edmund Fitzgerald when down, heard Gordon Lightfoot sing at Grad Night '76 at Disney. Second time at Grad Night First time at Grad Night was in 75 heard Brownsville Station sign Smoking in the Boys Room...
How do ‘pond raised catfish’ stack up to ‘wild’ ones?
H-Mart has tanks full of live crab, lobster and other seafood. It looks like an aquarium. They will net you a fish, clean it and fillet it for you. Their selection of seafood is extraordinary. As for the Kimchi, there are people who will give out free samples. It’s the only place you can get that.
Farm raised taste better and are more tender.
Mary’s Nest website has a recipe for kimchi, and a lot of other fermented foods.
Walmart’s??
Love kimchee.
Going Saturday to Walmart. Now I’m excited about going! LOL!
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