Eating beef noodle soup and seaweed at home
Eating at home is great because it usually involves eating things that I wouldn't be able to eat elsewhere. Sometimes it's just as simple as eating something that we buy at the store and just put it on plates at home. Or buying fish at the Japanese store and eating sashimi at home. Those are easy things that are do-able in my own apartment, but somehow I never do it. Instead of doing things that are convenient, I end up making ice cream at midnight, and having to go to the store just to get some milk because I ran out. Yea... gotta work on that little thing. Mental note - do easy things for meals, and don't make ice cream an hour before bed. An example of something easy that I would eat at home with my parents is cooked seaweed. Yea, that's right, I eat seaweed and it's great.
Wikipedia tells me that "seaweeds are extensively used as food by coastal people." I'm a coastal person, this is so exciting. I'm not sure how mom makes this but it's braised in some sort of soy based sauce/liquid. After it's finished cooking, it goes in the fridge. When we're ready to get our sea otter on, mom takes the seaweed out of the fridge, cuts it up into slivers (or chiffonades that shit), and addes some thick soy sauce and sesame oil. I think seaweed has a very bland taste unless you add a bunch of stuff to it, but it's got great texture.
Another simple thing that I ate at home was this tofu thing Mom bought at the store. It's almost as if they put tofu into kimchi marinade... I have no idea what this is. It's very addictive if you like spicy food. Basically it's firm tofu that's slathered in the some sort of kimchi sauce. They go down easily and it's quite possible to eat half a pound of this stuff and not realize it.
For dinner that night we had some beef noodle soup. It was homemade and pretty damn delicious. Noodles aren't as exciting as seaweed or spicy tofu, but it hits the spot. Usually I have to find a Lan zhou noodle place to get my niu rou mein fix, but at home it's right there. It's much better than eating the instant noodles version, which is what I've been eating in my own apartment. Now if I could just get off of my lazy ass and learn how to make this...
Dinner at home with mom is always better!
Hungry
July 27, 2009 12:48 pm
aww, sea otter children!
I wish I had a chinese mom. and an indian mom. and a mexican mom. that would be great. I would be the fatest sea otter ever.
Janice
July 27, 2009 2:21 pm
yea, those are spicy red chili sauce. Great with rice.
kim
July 28, 2009 7:54 am
Ambitious is right, no kimchi sauce, but there is a sh*t load of red pepper like in kimchi.
bionicgrrrl
July 27, 2009 11:43 pm
I married a man that makes the best beef noodle soup ever! If you want the recipe, let me know.. I'll see if he's willing to share.
talida
July 28, 2009 6:04 pm
I love roasted seaweed with rice :)
The tofu thing is marinated tofu. It contains no kimchi sauce. Here's a recipe from my mom:
http://www.ambitiousdeliciousness.com/2008/09/09/recipe-ban-chan-side-dishes
ambitious
July 27, 2009 3:29 pm
@talida - Yes, please do share! Not sure Danny needs the recipe since his mom makes yummy beef noodle soup, but I would love it!
bionicgrrrl
July 29, 2009 11:45 am
@talida, @bionicgrrrl,
That'll be great if your husband would share! We all need more beef noodle soup in our lives!
Danny
July 29, 2009 12:16 pm