It's Lunar New Year here (Seollal), so I figure I can restart my resolutions today.
Did you hear about the study that indicates that people who share their resolutions or goals are less likely to achieve them? Apparently, the social affirmation we receive from sharing our goals gives our brains a feel good buzz and then we are not as motivated to achieve our goals. People who keep their goals private don't receive this same emotional high and are more motivated to work toward completing their goals.
That said, I really do want people to visit this blog, so in the interests of keeping your attention: I resolve to update this blog more frequently this year! Here are a few pictures of the food I had intended to write about:)
Did you hear about the study that indicates that people who share their resolutions or goals are less likely to achieve them? Apparently, the social affirmation we receive from sharing our goals gives our brains a feel good buzz and then we are not as motivated to achieve our goals. People who keep their goals private don't receive this same emotional high and are more motivated to work toward completing their goals.
That said, I really do want people to visit this blog, so in the interests of keeping your attention: I resolve to update this blog more frequently this year! Here are a few pictures of the food I had intended to write about:)
Cranberry sauce from our Christmas on a Hotplate meal. No fresh cranberries were to be found, so this sauce was made with crasins, mandarins, pomegranate arils and toasted almonds.
Christmas on a hotplate was a challenging little feat. We served dinner for nine. Our Korean guests were very gracious and oooed and awwed over the food. We served mashed potatoes, chicken, gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce and four kinds of salad. Appetizers were hot spinach dip, bread, smoked oysters, olives and deviled eggs (my co-conspirator was from Tennessee where deviled eggs are traditional Thanksgiving fare). Needless to say, with only two burners, there was a lot of juggling. First we cooked the stuffing on the stove top then transferred it to the toaster oven. Then we cooked the chicken and wrapped it in tin foil and warmed it on top of the hot toaster oven. Then we took the stuffing out of the toaster oven, piled it on top of the chicken (on top of the toaster oven) and heated the spinach dip for an appetizer. Then the chicken and stuffing went back in the toaster over. Then we cooked the mashed potatoes and gravy. It was a bit of a miracle that everything was served hot and that the toaster oven survived.
The long march to the hotplate. We may have over done it on the potatoes. We didn't ever boil that bowlful.
An interesting stuffing-making method: onions, celery, herbs, butter, French bread and chicken broth sauteed in the frying pan and then rolled in a tinfoil log for baking in the toaster oven:) I tried to make one batch of the stuffing with sausage...unfortunately, almost all sausage in Korea is what we might call hot dog. So one batch of stuffing contained a very fine dice of hot dog--I don't recommend it.
We didn't have enough table space, so we all sat on the floor. Thankfully, this is the traditional seating arrangement here! I really like the communal feeling of eating this way.
For dessert, cream puffs and homemade truffles.
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