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A couple days ago, I saw jars of organic kimchi for sale at the farm where we get our milk. It looked good, and they had both a regular and vegan version. I picked up the vegan version, because the fish sauce that goes in kimchi can be made partially from shellfish, as well as kosher fish, so "vegan" is more clearly kosher (I don't worry TOO much about heckshers in cases like that; I figure that, for my purposes, "vegan" is generally good enough most of the time).
That meant that I wanted to have something bibimbap-flavored, because I like bibimbap. Bibimbap is Korean for "leftovers" (okay, literally, it's "mixed rice", but, basically, it's "leftovers"), and, like most peasant foods which are basically leftovers, it's delicious most of the time. Generally speaking, it's a bowl of rice with various steamed and/or pickled vegetables, meat, and a fried egg on top of it, along with condiments like bean paste, chili paste, and soy sauce.
The meat is often bulgogi -- beef marinated in a mixture of soy sauce, sesame oil, brown sugar, and various other things that depend on your personal recipe.
So, what I wanted was rice and bulgogi meat and fried egg. Vegetables are for HEALTHY people. And, well, I was going to have mine with kimchi, which counts as a vegetable, right? (For those who don't know, kimchi is basically sauerkraut, except completely different. They're both sliced pickled cabbage, but kimchi has more chili peppers in it, and not QUITE as much salt.) But we don't have any saute beef -- the only beef in the house is ground beef.
So why not?
I got some rice started in the rice cooker, and poured a generous amount of soy sauce and toasted sesame oil into a big pan, put a couple tablespoons of brown sugar in (see, THAT'S why bulgogi is so darned good -- it's got sugar in it) and got that cooking. I put a big ol' spoonful of diced garlic that we buy at Costco into the soy and oil, and stirred that around. Then I dropped a pound of ground beef in, and started stirring it and smooshing it around until it was cooked. I also poured in some sesame seeds, and put some ground pepper on top, and let that all cook until the beef was cooked through, and turned it off.
When the rice was done, I poured that on top and mixed it all together. I fried two eggs, one for each of us, and put the stuff in bowls, and put a fried egg on top.
And it was delicious.
That meant that I wanted to have something bibimbap-flavored, because I like bibimbap. Bibimbap is Korean for "leftovers" (okay, literally, it's "mixed rice", but, basically, it's "leftovers"), and, like most peasant foods which are basically leftovers, it's delicious most of the time. Generally speaking, it's a bowl of rice with various steamed and/or pickled vegetables, meat, and a fried egg on top of it, along with condiments like bean paste, chili paste, and soy sauce.
The meat is often bulgogi -- beef marinated in a mixture of soy sauce, sesame oil, brown sugar, and various other things that depend on your personal recipe.
So, what I wanted was rice and bulgogi meat and fried egg. Vegetables are for HEALTHY people. And, well, I was going to have mine with kimchi, which counts as a vegetable, right? (For those who don't know, kimchi is basically sauerkraut, except completely different. They're both sliced pickled cabbage, but kimchi has more chili peppers in it, and not QUITE as much salt.) But we don't have any saute beef -- the only beef in the house is ground beef.
So why not?
I got some rice started in the rice cooker, and poured a generous amount of soy sauce and toasted sesame oil into a big pan, put a couple tablespoons of brown sugar in (see, THAT'S why bulgogi is so darned good -- it's got sugar in it) and got that cooking. I put a big ol' spoonful of diced garlic that we buy at Costco into the soy and oil, and stirred that around. Then I dropped a pound of ground beef in, and started stirring it and smooshing it around until it was cooked. I also poured in some sesame seeds, and put some ground pepper on top, and let that all cook until the beef was cooked through, and turned it off.
When the rice was done, I poured that on top and mixed it all together. I fried two eggs, one for each of us, and put the stuff in bowls, and put a fried egg on top.
And it was delicious.