Aeri's Kitchen

Korean Food and Recipes

Archives for January 2009

Cinnamon Cha

μˆ˜μ •κ³Ό, SuJeongGwa

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SuJeongGwa (μˆ˜μ •κ³Ό) is a Korean traditional beverage made with mainly cinnamon sticks, ginger, and sugar. Koreans usually drink this beverage as a dessert. Koreans drink it a lot during the holidays. When you look at the ingredients, it has some healthy qualities. It tastes good both hot or cold, but I prefer it cold with ice cubes. Once you make it, you can keep it in the refrigerator quite a long time. If you invite some people over for a Korean meal, this can be a good beverage for your meal. πŸ˜‰

Yield: 9 Cups

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The Golden Klog Awards

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Hi, Everyone~~~
Yesterday, I got a very interesting message from The Hub of Sparkle. Here is the message from them:

“Hi there. Your blog was nominated for an award for the best Korea blogs of 2008, at The Hub Of Sparkle. Go check it out if you like.”

Click to go to the Survey

Not only the idea for this survey is interesting, but they also listed many other cool Korean blogs. I can’t wait to see the result of the survey from different areas. I was very happy to see my blog name on the list. πŸ™‚ It’s all thanks to your support. I hope that more people visit Aeri’s Kitchen’s blog and share information about Korean food in 2009. Love you all ~~ hehe πŸ˜€

P.S.
Do you like my blog???? Then please go vote~~~ πŸ˜‰ hehe

Beef TteokGuk

μ†Œκ³ κΈ° λ–‘κ΅­, SoGoGi TteokGuk

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TteokGuk (λ–‘κ΅­) is a traditional Korean New Year soup. Korean people celebrate the Lunar New Year, and this soup is the main dish for that holiday meal. On New Year’s morning, we wear HanBok (Korean traditional clothes) and greet (bow) our grandparents, parents, or relatives. Older people give a blessing for the New Year to their children along with some money called “SaeBatDon” (μƒˆλ±ƒλˆ). After greeting the older people, family and relatives eat breakfast together. The meal will have New Year’s soup, different kinds of vegetable dishes, fish, jeon, japvchae, galbi jjim, and so on. Since Koreans calculate their age according to New Year, and not according to their actual birthday, eating the bowl of New Year soup on New Year’s Day means becoming one year older. It might sound a little crazy. Sometime we joke, “I don’t want to eat more than one bowl of New Year’s soup, otherwise I would become more than one year older.” hehe

Yield: 2 Servings

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Taco Salad

타코 μƒλŸ¬λ“œ, Taco Salad

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Taco salad is a favorite food of mine that I learned to make from my mother in law. Homemade tortillas, taco seasoned beef, beans, lettuce, onions, cheese, and the french salad dressing. Oh, the combination of those flavors is awesome. @.@ Yesterday, we ate this for supper, and it was very delicious, as always. I guessed somebody might want the recipe for this food, so I post pictures with recipe. Enjoy!

Yield: 2-3 Servings

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Beef GalBi

μ†Œκ°ˆλΉ„, SoGalBi

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In Korea, we love to grill marinated meat (beef, pork, or chicken). There are two main flavors for marinated meat. One is spicy, which uses mainly red pepper paste. The other one is sweet & salty which is similar to a BBQ flavor. That type uses mainly soy sauce, pear, honey, sugar, apple, kiwi, and etc. Many restaurants have indoor grills at each table so that customers can grill their own meat themselves and enjoy the fresh cooked flavor. Today, I will show you a very popular marinated meat dish called GalBi. It takes time to marinate the meat, but otherwise, it is very simple and easy to make. You can freeze some of the marinated meat to grill at a later time. Enjoy! πŸ˜€

Yield: 3 Servings

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