I know a lot of my posting is about my various trips (and the food I eat there). So today I am going to post about my staying at home (and the food I eat there).
Many of you probably know that Ben and I really like to cook.
When we got here we did a decent amount of stocking up at the grocery store and living off that for a week or two. Then we had a friend mention to us the there is an awesome group called WWOOF CSA. Ben had an experience working for a WWOOF farmer in Italy, and so we checked it out.
It turns out for a moderate chuck o' change you can have organic fresh vegetables delivered to your door once a week. They also offer add ons of juice, meat, fruit, and bread. This past week they sent us a couple extra things to try so we would have more information about what they are doing for some writing Ben is doing for them as well as some blogging from both of us.
Ben has already done a sort of overview of Gachi (their new name) and our glorious relationship. I am here to talk about my most recent cooking adventures.
Something really wonderful about signing up for the Gachi package is that you get different and diverse veggies each week. It makes the life of a cooking happy person very exciting! I love Korean food, so it's been fun to try out some Korean dishes. It's also fun to cook from different cuisines with fresh veggies grown locally!
So last weekend, as the dinner maker this particular night, here is what I made:
We started with some eggplants and I was feeling some baba ghanoush.
I roasty-toasted the eggplant over the burner then stuck them into the oven to get soft.
While that was happening I made some tahini (roasted seasame seeds and olive oil). When the eggplant came out of the oven I blended it with the tahini and some salt and lemon. DONE.
We had some little baby chile peppers that I decided to stuff. It turned out they were a little small for stuffing so it ended up being more of a pepper layer and a veggie stuffing layer, but it was yummy nonetheless.
Chopped up some Gachi veggies: scallions, onions, pepper, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes.
And sauteed those little guys.
Next I grilled the peppers in the toaster so they were nice and soft.
Once both the sauteed veggies and the peppers were cooked pretty well I put them together! And I added some goat cheese that my sainted cheese enabling parents brought us. I cooked that for another couple minutes and that was good to go!
Finally, we got (what is called on the paper )"young pumpkin". It looks and tastes a lot like a zucchini. I just thin sliced that bugger and added some olive oil, salt, and this awesome smoked paprika and cooked it in the oven.
So that was the sum total of that particular dinner. Thanks to Gachi we also had some awesome carrot apple juice and bread to enjoy it with.
To anyone living in Korea I highly recommend looking into Gachi, it's helped us to cook really healthy food and eat a whole lot of veggies. I have accidentally become a walking advertisement. I will hear someone say green, vegetables, groceries, plant, organic, etc and I will ninja jump across the room screaming HAVE YOU HEARD OF GACHI???? So pardon my joyous food rant, but it's been an awesome aspect of my stay in Korea.
