깍두기 (ggakdoogi/ spicy Korean radish)

내가 처음만든 깍두기 나름대로 괜친다. 

Sugar

Salt

Radish

Red pepper powder

Garlic

1. Sprinkle sugar and salt. 

2. Sit for 30 min and drain. 

3. Marinate with red pepper powder and garlic. 

Green Curry Chicken (Homecooking)

It's been awhile since I've made green curry. My mother-in-law taught me this recipe. I remember the main ingredients but I can't remember if I'm supposed to add garlic. She's on vacation in Costa Rica so I can't even ask. Times like this reminds me how important it is to take good notes of her recipes. 

Red/yellow/orange peppers

Onion

Green curry (small can)

Coconut Milk (2 cans)

Chicken breast 

1. Sauté peppers and chicken. 

2. Add green curry and coconut milk. 

3. Reduce to desired consistency. 

Easy BBQ Chicken (Crockpot Homecooking)

Bear got home around 10:30pm last night, so I didn't make have to make dinner (hurray!). I also have a cold. When he got home I finally started thinking about lunch the next day but it was too late. So I turned to my trusty slowcooker that can do the work for me while I sleep (double hurray!).

Surprisingly once I gave up trying to make edible pulled pork in this machine, I've actually used it for some delicious meals. When I first bought my crockpot I had dreams that it would prepare all my meals and life would be a breeze. Then reality hit. Food was bland and had the consistency of wet saw dust. For the past two years, this crockpot has seen some terrible times (mostly because I was trying to make pulled pork with recipes off the internet that involved making my own rub and kept adding a mix of ingredients in the hopes it would taste better. It didn't.).

Then, I figured it out - cook on low heat. Since then I have made delicious 갈비탕 (rib bone soup)....and today, BBQ chicken. 

Easy BBQ Chicken (Slow cooker/ Crockpot)

Chicken thighs boneless

Chicken broth

BBQ sauce

1. Emerge chicken in chicken broth until just covered. 

2. Mix in some BBQ to give meat and broth flavour.  

3. Cook low 4 - 4.5 hours. 

4. Drain broth and mix in more BBQ sauce to taste. 

Finally a slow cooker chicken recipe that works. And I didn't have a recipe. I just made it up. I don't know what is more surprising. 

Lunch? No problem!