A Facebook Teaching Moment

From the recent NY Times Magazine:  A Facebook Teaching Moment

tak bok gi recipe

I woke up at 11 AM today!  I was woken up by a door-to-door evangelist wanting to share the love of the Lord with me.  I'm a Christian, but when I tell "these people" this they never seem to believe me.  It's almost like they have to test me to find out where on the spectrum I sit.  Have I gone on a mission trip?  When did I accept Jesus into my heart?  Where do I go to church?  How many Christian cds, t-shirts, pens, necklaces, and Bibles do I own?  Good grief.  

Anyway, slight rabbit trail.  

Today was a great day.  After a lazy morning the BF and I ate breakfast across the street with Stella.  When Stella was younger eating outside/sitting still was such a challenge.  She still manages to tie my feet up under the table, but she's a lot calmer now.  As a city dog she needs to learn the ends and outs of outdoor eaterys and behave like she got some home training.  After breakfast all of us walked up to the northern part of Harlem to hangout on CCNY's campus.  It's a beautiful campus built in the 1800s with gothic artictecture and green green grass.  Living in a concrete jungle any patch of grass is cherished.  

Stella ran herself to sleep, I came home, watched Oprah, and am now making dinner.

During the school year my diet consists of bagels, espressos, Chinese, Smart Meals, and pasta.  This summer, I want to stretch my cooking skills and learn more of the dishes that I grew up on.  I miss my Korean community back at home and I really miss Korean food.  So today, I called my mom and asked her for the recipe to one of my favourite dishes.  If you like Asian food, namely Korean food and love chicken then you'll enjoy this dish.  I don't have exact measurements and the recipe will need some tweating on your behalf depending what flavours you like more of, but here's how I made my dish:

Supplies:

-  Skinless chicken legs, breasts, and or thighs 

- 1/2 cup (just enough to cover the chicken) Soy Sauce

- garlic (mine was minced) some ppl don't like garlic but add as little or as much as you like

- ginger (optional & and same note as above) 

- black pepper (a dash or two)

- white sugar (2 spoonfuls)

- red pepper flakes (a dash or two; i like spicy food so this is optional especially if you're adding the jalapeno)

- bowl to fit all of the above in, what you're creating is a marinade to soak the chicken in for 20-30 minutes (i do longer because I like loads of flavour; refrigerate)

-- go ahead and cut up everything listed below and add in later when cooking--

* 1 small - med. sized jalapeno 

* 1- 1 1/2 onion

* 3 small potatoes

* 1 cup mixed veggies (frozen kind works fine if you're pressed for time)

* and add in any other kind of veggies that you like as well, green onions, green peppers

Cooking Time:

- Through everything into a pot, add a little bit of water and stir.  You're done once all the potatoes and chicken are cooked well.  

- I add a side of rice to the dish and with the left over meat I add to salad with no dressing.