It's been so long since I've posted here, but I can only blame work. Getting all the grades finalized and the classroom cleaned up for the summer school bunch is hard work. So much so that I had been subsiding on Lean Pockets and takeout for the last couple of weeks. Then the summer started, and who wants to be stuck in the house cooking over a hot stove in 100 degree weather? But at last we hit a humidity low point, I had eaten through all the food in the house, and Atlanta beckoned. The Farmer's Market off Buford is going through a remodel, but I managed to get some staples. Also, because of the wonderous Mangaachi and her delicious recipes, I decided to try my hand at making some homeade banchan instead of just buying it as usual. Tonight I threw together some pickled raw crab and cucumber kimchee. The kimchee recipe I got off Mangaachi's cooking website, but the crab I made from a recipe in a cookbook called Eating Korean.


It turned out beautifully, but I did make some changes to the original ingredients which called for waaaay too much sesame seeds and sesame oil IMO. If I use this recipe again, I'm planning on cutting back on the sugar content as well...it was a bit too sweet for my taste.


The cucumber kimchee was on-the-spot delicious and tasted as good as any I've ever bought.