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Still making my way through the 10lb vat of kimchi I made around New Years. Since it’s fermented, it doesn’t “go bad” per se, but it does get “stinkier,” which in kimchi terms can be seen as a compliment, depending on personal taste. One thing to do with stinky kimchi, and the spicy, tangy juice that comes out of it, is to add it to dashi broth and make Kimchi Stew, or Kimchichigae — a common dish Korean moms might make for their kids if they don’t really feel like really cooking — like a mac n cheese equivalent. I made mine with an unofficial dashi stock of soaked nori, dried mushrooms and bonito flakes plus plenty of kimchi, onions, carrots, and radishes, and tossed in some frozen shrimp and udon noodles because I had them on hand. It was a super spicy, comforting dish and mad easy to make, especially if you’ve got tons of kimchi lying around.
Posted on March 7, 2011 with 5 notes ()
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Last night I was having an after-work Hudson Buck (or two) at the Vanderbilt, paging through the new Brooklyn Bread Press (basically The Noise meets Patrick McMullan of the BK food nerd world,) and I came across not one, but two photos of yours truly (see page 28) from a recent Kimchee & Korean Pancakes class I took at Purple Yam in Ditmas Park. I kept meaning to share what I learned, waiting until I got around to kimchifying a couple of cabbages chez moi. I haven’t gotten there quite yet, but here you have pics from the fun Saturday afternoon we spent making cabbage kimchi, radish kimchi, brothy kimchi, kimchee stew and tasty pork belly and Korean pancakes to eat with it.