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Vacation

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Hi all, I was on vacation from the 16th Feb until today. However, I managed to get food poisoning and develop a hyperactive gut whilst in Laos. At the moment, I am on a restricted diet of relatively bland food. To that end, I won’t be posting a new recipe for a week or so until I get my appetite back and my stomach has calmed down considerably. However, I will be sharing a guest post at some point in the next week. Until then, have a good one and happy cooking. Maggie @Spoon in a Saucepan.

Roasted Vegetables with Pesto Couscous and Fried Eggs

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“This is every cook’s opinion – no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled.” Jonathan Swift First off…thank you so much to everyone who follows this blog or likes any of the posts. On Wednesday I reached 51 follows! So, thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart! Also, a huge shout out to the 178 followers on FB – ye rock, too!  Now, on to this week’s recipe:   Generally, the week before I go on vacation I don’t really eat at home. Instead, I will get fried chicken, gimbap, or a sandwich from Paris Baguette. I always figured it made life easier. Well, I go on vacation on Monday for around 10 days and I decided that I would challenge myself to not be lazy and to try to eat in for most of the time during this week. The weekend is a mix of birthdays and farewells so I knew getting time to eat in would be tricky and I …

Fusion Tuna Gimbap (참치김밥)

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“A picnic is more than eating a meal, it is a pleasurable sate of mind.” -DeeDee Stovel When I moved to Korea back in May 2012, one of the first foods my brother introduced me to was gimbap. It’s basically a seaweed roll (gim = seaweed, bap = rice) stuffed with tasty ingredients: egg, ham, crab stick, carrot, perilla leaf or spinach, danmuji (yellow pickled radish), and cucumber. Additionally, tuna, bulgogi, or kimchi can be included. You nearly always get a side of danmuji to eat with it. However, danmuji is one of those foods that I hate with a passion, outside of gimbap and bibimbap, so having it as side dish to my gimbap never happens. However, it works really, really well in gimbap, giving texture and bite to the seaweed roll. My favourite kind is the chamchi or tuna gimbap and I’ve been known to eat two chamchi (tuna) sangak gimbap (triangle gimbap) at a go! These gimbap are in the shape of small triangles and usually are filled only with rice and tuna …

Sweet Potato, Spinach and Feta Scrambled Eggs

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“And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don’t want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!” “Good Heavens!” said Pippin. “At breakfast?” – JRR Tolkien After trying the amazing creamy scrambled eggs courtesy of Healthy Recipe Ecstasy, I was excited to try an idea that had been floating around my head since just before Christmas. In fact, I did try this on Christmas day but I knew that I need to work on the creaminess just a little bit. Fresh with my new knowledge, I set out to create scrambled eggs with sweet potato, spinach and feta. Man, I couldn’t get it right. I kept struggling particularly with the sweet potato. The method that Michelle used in her creamy scrambled eggs is replicated in these ones, so make sure to check out the last post. These scrambled eggs work best when you have a little time, so they are perfect for a lazy weekend or a stay-cation. Sweet Potato, Spinach and Feta Scrambled Eggs Serves …

Healthy Recipe Ecstasy’s Creamy Scrambled Eggs (Re-blog)

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One of my favourite things about cooking is seeking inspiration from everywhere and anywhere. Unfortunately, I rarely get time to cook all the amazing dishes I’ve found. Cooking my own recipes takes up more than enough of my time but some of these finds have been burning a hole in my taste-buds for more than a year, begging me to find the time, and, more typically here in Korea, the ingredients. Luckily, I have the next two weeks off from school and I’ve decided to devote a portion of that time to making some bookmarked recipes. The following recipe is re-blogged from one of my favourite food bloggers, Michelle, over at Healthy Recipe Ecstasy. Her recipe for Crock Pot Chicken and Lentil Curry was the second thing I ever made in my slow cooker and it’s become a firm favourite of mine. I even introduced my family to it the first time I went home after moving to Korea. Since then, I’ve been browsing her blog on pretty much a daily basis. Her photos and recipes are astounding and I …