Korean Burritos

This was spawned from a food truck festival.  I love food trucks.  They are like little traveling food adventures.  I have had some very creative food from them and like seeking them out.  So when a food truck fest came local I was excited.  Checked out all the trucks before I made my choices of where to eat.  Picked three trucks to try.  All where good but one had a Korean Burrito.  It was tasty but I really felt it fell short of the description.  So as I ate it I immediately formulated how I would fix it.  So here it is...my Korean Burritto!

First off the burrito I had they put 'fried rice' in.  It was rice with some quicky frozen veg mix in it and not very fried. It was an unnecessary filler.  I don't like things in my food that don't add to the delight of the experience.  They also had a 'Korean BBQ' pulled pork.  It was not like any Korean BBQ I've had.  It was definitely more western style BBQ with a bit of ginger in it. It also had an 'asian' slaw which was a American creamy style slaw again with a bit of ginger added (I see a theme here!) and kimchi.  The burrito was good...I wanted better.
 

My reboot omits the rice totally.  I marinated shabu shabu meat (paper thin sliced beef) with green onions and Bulgogi (Korean BBQ) overnight.  After marination, I cooked up the BBQ meat .

 Made my asian slaw (see previous post) and got some good Kimchi.  Made the slaw the night before and bought a good Kimchi from the local Korean market.

 To assemble them just put a bit of all three ingredients on a nice soft tortilla.  I found a great one with out junk ingredients a The Andersons.

 
The finished product!!!  It is tasty and all who tried it on movie night thought it was great.  You add a bit more zing by using a bit of Saracha sauce on it or (as my son tried) dip it in some sour cream! We also had a few Korean sides with it as well to make a tasty meal.

Asian Slaw...the reboot post

Hi...my name is Mizzie and this is the blog I walked away from for a while.

So it's been a looonnngg time since my last update on this food adventure.  As you may know I have a really good reason for not writing for a bit...but now I am on the mend and need to catch up on all the food fun in both cooking and finding fun places to eat.  Some of the items will be things I did over the past year and some will be things that I am doing now. 

I will start with a new recipe I created.  I wanted a yummy slaw but did not want a heavy cream based slaw and did not want a total oil based sweet tart asian style slaw.  I did want a light slaw, leaning towards the asian style, that packed a bigger flavor punch then other asian slaws I have had.

This is what I came up with.  All I ask is that if you make this for folks, let them know where you got it!

Asian Slaw

Asian Slaw

1 medium sized Dikon (pealed and Julienne)
1 cup Julienne carrots
1/4 chopped red cabbage (med size head)
1/4 - 1/2 cup chopped cilantro (to taste)
1 bunches scallions, green ends chopped
1 tbs chopped garlic
1 - 2 tsp ground ginger (to taste...the ginger flavor will blossom some after it has set)
1 tbs Gochujang (Korean red pepper paste)
2 tsp ground black pepper

Gochujang (Korean red pepper paste)

1 tbs brown sugar
1 - 2 tbs soy sauce (to taste)
1/8 cup Mirin (sweet cooking sake)
1/4 cup sesame oil
1/4 cup rice vinigar
Single serve size plain greek yogurt   

Mix it all together....let it set for at least 1 hour.  Enjoy!

I have had this over buckwheat soba noodles and with an asina bbq pork chop....both worked well.  I am going to be using it in a Korean Burrito recipe (inspired from a food truck I ate at), but that will be another post.

Let me know what you think!!!

Easter Cuteness

I love Easter for the fact that it's yet another big holiday for yummy food...and this one is for cute food too!  I decided to make something fun for my two young nieces.  Easter eggs with a twist.

The Japanese, creators of the ultra cute anything, have as usual come up with a great way to make hard boiled eggs cute.  I found these forms at the Japanese food store I frequent, Tensuke, and decided to try it.  One is a bunny and one is a bear. 

What you do is hard boil eggs, peel them and while they are warm put them in the form.  Once in the form you lock it down and let the egg cool in the fridge in the form.  Once cool, they keep that form.

I also painted the eggs with some food coloring to make them extra cute.  I hope the nieces like them!

xxoo
-Mizzie

The Classics

What better for dinner but a classic...Tomato soup and grilled cheese.

Ok...maybe I pimped it out a bit.

Tomato soup made with my home jarred tomatoes, butter, milk, fresh basil, red pepper and my new found fun...honey.  I really didn't think it would work, but WOW it gave the soup new dimensions.  When using home jarred tomatoes the acidity is allot higher then store bought canned tomatoes, thus why I add butter and milk.  I actually usually use heavy cream but was out of it.  The taste was great but the acid was high.  Thinking some sugar might calm it down I went to the cupboard and discovered my sugar was hidden behind lots of stuff and the honey was right up front...What the hell...try it.  I'll never go back. Try it.

The next is the grilled cheese...butter, real butter not anything else, rosemary olive oil bread, deluxe american and good swiss cheese. 

I am full now.
xxoo
-Mizzie

It's Raining....

It's cold and raining...ok...maybe not so cold but definitely raining.  Time for chicken and dumplings the easy way.  One can of your favorite chicken noodle soup, 1/2 chicken breast, chicken stock and some glutenous thick noodles. The glutenous noodles I got frozen...I really cheated.  The dry bag noodles wont thicken up the broth enough.

Cut the chicken breast in chunks.  Boil the soup with some extra broth with the chicken to cook it.  Once boiling add the noodles and let it cook for around 10 minutes at a boil.  It should thicken and TA DA!  It's dinner yet.  Add a good bread and butter and you have a perfect rainy day dinner.

I also opted for some fun reading materials.

xxoo
-Mizzie

Comfort Food

I don't feel good.  I want comfort food.

I made myself some nice cheese seafood noodles and green beans.  First I sauteed some shrimp and scallops in butter, sesame oil, garlic and onion powder.  Then I added heavy cream, some parmigiano reggiano, soy sauce, pepper, a smidgen of ground ginger and let it thicken.  Cooked up some good egg noodles and steamed some nice green beans.  Dinner that is yummy and comfort food.

I think once I am done with this it's a hot shower and then crawling in bed with the boys, Max and Gir my pups, for a night of warmth under the covers and TV in bed.

xxoo
-Mizzie

The Tamales Revisited!

Dinner tonight was some of the Tamales (see previous post) that I had frozen.  Just testing that they do freeze well as advertised...oh they do.  Here they are with some enchilada sauce, black beans, cheese and topped with sour cream.  Yummy dinner time!

xxoo
-Mizzie