It has been a LONG time since I have posted a full blog post. Apparently I got caught up in the ease of Instagram and in all honesty, I might have gotten lazy. While it is easier to write a few lines about what I made for dinner, I realized that I missed giving a little more context.
I started sharing my food pictures and dinner ideas when I was not working last year and I had a little more freedom to cook more complex meals without time restraints. Thankfully, working from home in my new job has still allowed me to still have dinner on the table at a reasonable time! I take advantage of a quick lunch break to start prepping dinner (marinating meats, cutting up veggies, etc) and that helps cut the time down when I actually start cooking dinner. While we are surrounded by so many great restaurants, we usually eat in (with exceptions of course) and I have been working hard to continue to try new recipes, while still mixing in the tried and true favorites. I normally pull my Korean recipes from various Korean websites and blogs that I follow but I decided to take a risk tonight and try recipes pulled from The Food Network Kitchen (blasphemy, I know!). Tonight's dinner is a recipe for Grilled Korean Steak and Kimchi Fried Rice. Normally, when beef is involved and I am making Korean, it's in the form of Galbi Jim, LA Galbi or Bulgogi. Tonight's recipe is actually grilled skirt steak (full disclosure: I used one skirt steak and one flat iron steak because it's what I had). The marinade ingredients are pretty typical for a Korean beef marinade; soy sauce, brown sugar, garlic, sesame oil and the secret ingredient....soda! :) I often add a bit of soda to my LA Galbi marinade (a trick that my mother-in-law told me about) so it makes sense that it would be in this grilled steak version. You can't serve just steak for dinner (though I am not sure I'd be opposed to only steak) so instead of plain jasmine rice, which is normally our go-to, I decided to try the recipe for Kimchi Fried Rice. If I am being 100% honest, kimchi is not my favorite. I LOVE the flavors of the kimchi but the texture of the cabbage just doesn't agree with me. That being said, it all changes when you caramelize the kimchi (that and the bacon fat and bacon!)...the texture changes and the flavor intensifies. That is the base of the kimchi fried rice recipe. The recipe did not call for soy sauce but I did add a little because everything is better with a little soy sauce. :) The ingredients for the steak can all be found at your local grocery store, without needing a trip to H-Mart. It is worth noting that the bacon and peppers called for in the steak recipe did not belong. The bacon found in the steak recipe is actually for the fried rice. I did not marinade the bacon or use the peppers. I also did not use the kimchi recipe in the fried rice recipe for the kimchi, as it didn't seem authentic. Instead, I used the kimchi I had made a few weeks ago. I'd say go ahead and try to make the "kimchi" as written (note: it is not real kimchi and is missing the key ingredient of gochugaru - Korean red pepper flakes) or pick some kimchi up at the grocery store, if you are lucky enough to have a store near you that sells it already made. I have to say...the smell of the bacon and the kimchi caramelizing together made me drool. If you think you don't like kimchi - I PROMISE that if you try kimchi fried rice, you might just change your mind. This is one of the best meals I've made in a LONG time. I mixed mine all up to make my own version of steak fried rice. This is one happy girl! Korean Style Grilled Steak: food-network.app.link/N1kEIOD4c4 Kimchi Fried Rice: food-network.app.link/csY848A4c4
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