Feb 19, 2013

Hunger.

Hunger, no time and empty fridge forced me to make my 기스면 [gisumyeon] in very quickly and simply way. I will share it for people who got Korean 라면 [ramyeon] and don't know how to prepare it.


Firstly, I wanna mention that there are two schools of making 라면. One says: add powder after noodles and the other one says : do it before. I tried two of them obviously and usually I add soup base when my noodles are cooked but this time I added some soy sauce to water (yes, I use it all the time) so I also decided to add powder before noodles because my water was flavored anyway. That's why I thought it will not make a big difference.


As u see on the upper photos ramen is the easiest thing to make. Water, noodle, soup base an egg and voilà the yummiest thing in the world is done!


My kimchi ramen was the 1st one I've tried with tuna and I really fell in love with it, you should definitely try it! It's really nice thing if you're bored of plain ramen.

At the end.. I know my salad doesn't look too Asian but I have no chance to get kimbap or even kimchi for now, I'll try to use them soon when I will compare videos that show how to make THE BEST ramen ;), wait for it. 

Feb 17, 2013

Any idea?

I've got last 기스면 [gisumyeon] does anyone have idea what I could do with it? Or should I rather use my imagination and show you my own way how to treat this noode? ^^

Feb 16, 2013

And after ramen... RAINBOW TIME!

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Some time ago I was looking for some easy recipes of deserts and this is what I found! Fantastic colorful rainbow foam! It's so tasty that all my friends wanted me to tell how I did it. So here it is!

(Cr: TheVintageKitchen)

I just would like to give you couple of tips. Firstly: don't wait till jelly will be like on the video, you can mix it in the mixer when it's cool and then put it for few minutes to freezer. Also it's alright to make all colors at once in different bowls (one bowl - one jelly). If you do this in that way, you will not have to wait all night for your rainbow dessert, you can get it after half an hour!

Moreover, from 6 packages of jelly, 450g each I've made 9 glasses of rainbow and two bowls! I've got plenty of it!

It's cheap, easy, good looking way to make your friends and family happy!

And here is my happy rainbow foam.

GOOD LUCK!

Polish Kimchi Ramen



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Today many '1st' things happened. 1st post on this blog, 1st ramen with tuna, 1st rainbow foam, 1st kimbap, isn't it exciting? It's good to try new things and discover worlds, yes, worlds, there's many little worlds in our life, world of music, taste, books, and so on but anyway. Let's say something about me. I'm little PANDA who loves noodles. It's okay to say I'm addicted to it so I decided to make this page and share my love with you and to show you that package of noodle doesn't have to be boring flavored water with some noodles but it may be magical dish surprisingly easy to make. Oke. It's enough for now. Let's see what I cooked today.



I've got Tao Tao Kim-chi [ 김치] as Valentine's gift from myself. I think it's one of the best ones I've could ever get. Forever ramen ♥. ㅋㅋㅋ. However, let's talk about that soup. It's from Tao Tao, it's one of the most popular companies in Poland selling Asian products, containing instant soups, souces, noodles and many other products. I'm not sure if it's possible to find it in other countries, however, I think the recipe or the way of making this will be same with kimchi ramens from other companies so don't worry if you can't find in your country. Just buy the one u like.

Polish ramen usually contains one more bag that u can find in Korean one, it's soup oil. It makes ramen little bit more fat and oil (obviously), personally i don't like it but if you skip this bag ramen won't taste good. So it's better to add it. What I like in tao tao kimchi ramen is that they separated chili and soup base so you can control how spicy your soup is. But for me it's still not as spicy as it should be so when I had original Korean chili I always added some of it. 

The way we make ramen in here is little bit different with Korea. We just put noodles in the bowl, empty all bags and later pour water to noodles lever and wait about 3-5 minutes. Boiling in the pot doesn't work with all kinds of ramen. For example I don't like to do it with my kimchi soup, when I did it once taste was much worse than when I did it in 'normal' way. 


For my breakfast except ramen I've prepared some rice with Gim [김], it's really thin piece of seaweed, which is salted and roasted. Koreans usually eat this with rice, put some rice on spoon and later cover it with gim and eat. It's really simple and tasty way to eat rice. You don't have to use anything else but this. I got advice to eat it with some sauce so I use soy sauce to my rice to make it more salty and I have to say it works perfectly! Even my mom who doesn't really like Asian cuisine loved it and ate all box of gim ;). 


When my ramen was ready I added some canned tuna on top (Korean friend's advice) and boiled egg and... it's all. Today's ramen was really simple and extremely tasty. Tuna works perfectly with Kimchi flavour and for lots of Asian ramen without egg is impossible to imagine. I am also big fan of egg in my soup and usually I add it to the pot when everything is boiling but this time I didn't want to destroy my kimchi flavor coz believe me, this Tao Tao Kimchi noodles are perfect! So boiled egg finished up in my bowl. 


The result of cooking was: Rice cooked in water with bullion cube and mixed up with soy sauce and canned tuna on the top, Kimchi flavored soup with tuna and egg and at the end some gim to eat with rice. It was really fantastic and tasty meal. I would recommend it to every fan of Asian food, ramen lovers and people who want to try something new and are too lazy to make complicated dish. 


EAT WELL!