Friday Dinners – Every Month is a New Adventure

So what’s the use of having recipes if they’re never practiced? Scarily, I’m taking this thought to heart and I am now cooking for friends every Friday of every week. That’s right. Every week. I had a true Julie & Julia moment on a Thursday night in February when I was half nodding off and blendering Asian pears for my beef marinade at 1am.

February’s menu was: Pae Jun. Kalbi. Soon dubu chigae.

Some things I’ve learned:

• If you use too much tempura batter for pae jun you can actually spend close to 40 minutes making one pancake. True story.
• Do not feed the puppy scraps from the table no matter how cute his face is. He and his ancestors have worked on that face for centuries. Still trying to reverse the fallout from this.
• If the smoke alarm goes off, don’t ‘manage’ the situation by ripping it out of the ceiling. Smoke alarms don’t respond to emotionality as they should.

*sigh*

On to March…

The menu:

Dad’s fave: steamed pork belly with anchovy dip.

Seaweed salad.

…my pae jun has come along…but I’m recycling it for March. Because let’s face it. It’s delish and I could eat it every day, not just on Fridays.

Thanks everyone for coming over and bringing love and wine! xoxo