갓고기국수 Stir fried mustard leaf with minced pork noodles

I tried cooking this yesterday, using 갓볶움 stir fried mustard leaf (shown on 맛남의 광장 Delicious Rendezvous 2020 ep 7) and minced pork. After watching 백종원의 골목식당 Baek Jong-won's Alley Restaurant 2020 ep 259, I keep thinking about guksu ㅋㅋㅋ  Can I call this 갓고기국수? lol

                                                 여러분, 새해 복 많이 받으세요 ^^ 

Wishing everyone a much better 2021 ahead!!

Kfresh zone

Usually, I will buy my ingredients from Kfresh zone since NTUC Finest is less than 10mins walk from my house.

Oh I love this mushroom!

Especially after watching Delicious Rendezvous.

Very fresh

Oh the "odd shape" zucchini but not odd shape to foreigners.

Watch Delicious Rendezvous and you will know.

This was really tasty!! 
Super happy to see this at this price ^^

Very fresh and cute ^^

My priority in choosing a thing > From KOREA.

Happy purchase ^^

I know some people feel that these products are more costly.

I wouldn't mind as long as it is within my ability to support my second home's economy.

Besides, Kfresh zone in Finest, as long as "From Korea", I will support.

Thin wrap kimchi Mandu from Chorok Market

Got this from Chorok Market as well.

One of their best selling and highly recommended by my friend.

You can cook them using air fryer, mircowave, steam, deep fried and pan fried.

I used the pan fried method of using oil, followed by adding water into the frying pan.

바삭 ~ ~바삭 ~ ~ ~

My personal opinion : the filling lacks texture.

Too fine but fortunately, each mandu was fully filled with ingredients.

I also like the fact that the skin was thin.

Fortunately, I pan fried my mandu instead of steaming them.

The crispy bottom gave each mandu some texture at least.

Purchase from Chorok Market

Went to 초록마트 Chorok Market on Christmas.

I think I have never tried this (세발나물) in Korea. 

Have been so curious with this greens but not sure how to cook it.

So happy that they pasted a simple recipe to share ^^

좋은 생각 ^^

Otherwise many people especially non Koreans will not know what to do with these unfamiliar greens.

돌나물 Dol-namul!!

Ah this was new!
I am always very excited to see Korean things especially things that are not commonly found in SG.

I will try this namul next time!

Also saw this at Chorok Market.

These strawberries were really huge!

Ok, now to my late lunch.

I started making my lunch with this.

Added the seasoning mentioned in the recipe but I used my own ratio.

And it turned out like this.

This was yummy Hahahaha

Not sure if this was the right taste though since I have never tried it before in Korea but I sure like this namul ^^

Next is this wild chives, 달래 Dallae.

I was not sure whether I should used the entire stalk including the roots.

In the end, I used 20% of the these including the roots. 

For the rest of the 80%, I chopped off the roots and re-plant them hahahahaa

This was the result of my healthy meal on Christmas.

I did not add the variety of ingredients as mentioned in the recipe since I was the only one eating.

It would be a big pot if I have added red peppers and zucchini.

I only added lots of wild chives, tofu, chopped onions and cheongyang gochu.

I came across these 2 websites which I find interesting, seoulistmag and bburikitchen.com.

콩나물밥 Kongnamul Bap

 My all time favorite fuss free healthy meal, 콩나물밥 Kongnamul Bap ^^

Personally, I love the runny egg yolk mixed with my rice ^^

Chicken soup using perilla seeds powder

I saw a few times from the Korean TV programs introducing Gwangju Duck Soup 광주오리탕 and this time, from Delicious Rendezvous (2020).

Oh yes, by now, Baek Jong-won 백종원 has become my idol! Watch Delicious Rendezvous 맛남의 광장 & Alley Restaurant 골목식당 and you will know why he is so respected by many.  

Decided to try out this soup at home but using chicken cos I do not like duck.  I will try 오리탕 in Korea but for now, I used chicken.  This soup is super easy.  The perilla seeds powder 들깨가루 makes a big difference in the soup.  Without it, the soup will still taste nice but it will be a normal chicken soup.  The same goes for Gamjatang.  So now, I am super loving this ingredient called, perilla seeds powder ㄱㄱㄱㄱㄱ  

You may find this veggie (Minari 미나리 Water dropwort) a lot but nope.

Personally, I dun have special liking for Minari 미나리 but some people dun like it. 

When I dipped it in 초장 Chojang, I could really eat a lot of it.

Baek Jong-won's Duck Soup 오리탕 in  Delicious Rendezvous (2020) ep 50 where Taemin was the special guest.

Got my Minari 미나리  from 초록마트 Chorok Market 

Quite pleased with my chicken soup but it should taste different from duck I think.

Yumzzzz.... to my 초장 Chojang ^^

Dishes I tried during the circuit breaker

WFH is much busier for me but I prefer WFH.

 I de-stressed by thinking of what to cook and what ingredients to buy.

Really find so much joy in doing so every weekend.

Below are some of the dishes I cooked so far during this CB.