Fermented Food Adventures & Recipes
Have you ever thought about making kimchi out of green beans?! This is the kind of wacky stuff that keeps me up at night. The truth is, virtually every vegetable can be fermented, and likewise, can be put through the kimchi process. Now, kimchi by definition doesn’t have to be […]
Sometimes we find wonderful things that are greater than the sum of their parts. I find this particularly true in the realm of food & cooking, where ingredients or dishes from disparate places or cultures can meld incredibly well with others. This has culminated in the delicious world of fusion […]
Although I have made various kimchis keeping the leafy stems and greens attached to my produce (or fermented the leaves separately), I’ve never been able to source true chonggakmu, which literally means Bachelor radish. But then again, all radishes grow leafy tops which are edible. So at a certain point, […]
One kimchi that has stood out to me for years for its unique & floral flavor is kkaennip kimchi, or kimchi of perilla leaf. This can also be called sesame leaf (though it’s not in the same family as the sesame plant that makes sesame seeds). In fact, perilla leaf […]
Kimchi. Shakshuka. Two foods I absolutely love and never once considered combining. Until one night, awake and stirring in bed, it just kinda hit me. And then, it was even harder to fall asleep because I started imagining all the ways I could go about it. Would I still use […]
As you can see in my kimchi files, I already have an orange, yellow, and green kimchi recipe up, and of course plenty of different red ones as that tends to be the standard preparation of this dish. Not sure how I’d get a blue kimchi, if only I had […]
That’s right! This post is for two – count ’em – two pineapple kimchi recipes. The cubed pineapple kimchi (kkakdugi) is so delicious, you’ll be lucky if you can resist eating it all before the blending stage to make it an epic sauce. Kkakdugi normally is the cubed, firm & […]
I love growing mustard greens, both because they are so easy to grow and because I love the flavor, whether raw or cooked, including in soups and even turned into chips in my food dehydrator after coating them in sesame oil, brown sugar and my fermented sriracha. I may have […]
Not to toot my own horn, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen kkakdugi that wasn’t red or white (meaning no red pepper powder added). So, welcome to the revolution! This is the third (but believe it or not, not my final) installment of my color-kimchi series. Here are the […]
For my discussion of why I started experimenting with colorful kimchis (besides the obvious answer of “why not!?”), I invite you to check out my original color-kimchi post, jalapeno-cilantro-lime green kimchi, here. I debated for a long time about what to put in it. There are so many amazing orange […]