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Experiment: Scrambled eggs with onions and tomatoes

Another day, another experiment gone wrong. This is a photo I took last year, so I don’t remember exactly what I was trying to make or why, I just remember it didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to. I think I was aiming to make a big omelette filled with tomatoes and onions? No… Or yes… Actually I seriously don’t remember. But looking at the photo triggers memories of too dry, too-finely scrambled eggs, all boring and grainy in my mouth.

It would have been better if I had just fried the eggs separately and the veggies separately and eaten them with my rice for a tasty breakfast or light lunch. The thing is, I make Chinese-style egg and tomatoes all the time so what went wrong here? The onions? It was the onions, wasn’t it? Anyway, I’m just clearing out old photos of stuff I’ve made in the past and came across this one. I have about a 7:3 ratio of success to failure when I cook stuff, so you can expect more stuff like this in the future. See ya!

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Rice and chicken… stew? Soup?

It’s been almost a year since I last posted. I was ill around the end of the year and completely lost my appetite. After that I’ve just been too lazy. Especially lazy to write full posts with recipes and explanations about the various things I’ve been cooking. But that ends today… uh, maybe.

Today’s post is just an old picture I found on my phone SD card. Rice I know and chicken I recognize, but what is the rest of that grey stuff? The reason I posted it is a cautionary tale about buying frozen vegetables in Ghana. Apart from peas and maybe broccoli, I’d say don’t bother. You’ll only get mushy, weird-tasting stuff because the supermarkets don’t take good care of their frozen stuff all the way along the supply chain. It will thaw out and refreeze at some point, as anyone who has ever bought grainy ice cream will testify.

So this awam chicken… stew? Not only looked unappetizing but it also tasted very average, thoroughly unimpressive. Better to buy fresh vegetables if you can afford them, or canned if you want to use preserved. Even Ghana supermarkets can’t mess those up. A word to the wise is enough.

I really need a better camera, but I’m not going to make that an excuse for not posting.

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What’s a Korean breakfast like?

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I watched a Korean drama where the heroine made breakfast twice for her totally-not-love-interest. You know, the guy she’s going to be head over heels over by episode 10. These scenes were obviously shoehorned in so they could advertise their sponsor’s dinner (looks like Ikea?) but they meals still looked pretty delicious so I took screenshots.

I can’t figure most of the stuff out, though. The internet tells me all the little dishes are known as banchan, i.e. side dishes, but there are hundreds of side dishes in Korea. Anyway, I’m uploading them here for now and will update with the proper names of the food as and when I figure them out.

Here’s the first breakfast:

  1. Some kind of vegetable salad in involving korean cucumbers (muchim)
  2. Gamja jorim (potatoes cooked with soy sauce)
  3. ?
  4. Green tea
  5. Miyeok guk (seaweed soup)
  6. Sookju namul (stir fried bean sprouts)
  7. Steamed white rice
  8. Gaeran mari (Rolled omelette)
  9. Mashed sweet potatoes
  10. Pickled lotus root and vegetables

And there’s the second.

 

  1. ?
  2. Musaengchae (shredded daikon salad)?
  3. ? Possibly seasoned seaweed
  4. Some kind of soup, possibly bukeoguk (dried pollock soup)
  5. Fried eggs sunny side up
  6. ?
  7. Steamed white rice
  8. Some kind of salad?
  9. Tofu? or Eomuk (fish cake)
  10. Gaji namul? (stir-fried eggplant)
  11. Braised/stewed fish in a spicy-looking sauce

Some of this stuff looks pretty good (especially the soups) so I might try a few here and there as I get the recipes. Look forward to it!