This Dish is 2010 Me In Food Form
Megan was in town this week (see my last post), so I have spent a little more money than usual on food and drinks this week. So today, post spending extravaganza, I tried to go the whole day without spending a cent. This lead me to cooking tonight’s dinner with whatever was in my fridge and pantry— rice cakes, scallions, hot sauce, gochujang, spinach and dried mushrooms.
I wasn’t even going to take a picture of the final dish (since it was essentially dduk bokki), until I tasted the first bite. Then I realized that this dish is, essentially, me in food form. Mushrooms. Dduk (rice cakes). Garlic Chili sauce…
Only kidding. I didn’t buy the jar that was this size, but there is a nice sized jar of garlic chili sauce in my fridge (LOVE this stuff).
Anyway, back to the dduk bokki I made tonight:
My variation of Dduk Bokki with Spinach, Dried Mushrooms and Scallion.
I added the dried mushrooms straight from the bag without reconstituting them and I must say, they were a great addition. It added a chewy, umami flavor to the dish that I loved. And I accidentally charred the rice cakes a little bit, which also added a delicious flavor (I’m weird, I love the flavor of burnt things).
Anyway, I know this is kind of the dish I make all the time and therefore it really isn’t much to blog about, but I was so happy with it that I had to blog about it.
As I said earlier, this dish encompasses all of my current food obsessions: Korean flavors/gochujang, dduk (rice cakes), mushrooms and garlic chili sauce. For example, when I order thai food, my order usually involves me telling the waitress, “I’ll have (insert dish here) with tofu, extra spicy and can you add mushrooms to that?” And this goes one step further and adds dduk. Mmmmm.
I hope you all are as excited as I am.
:o)
