Egg fried rice is a Korean styled fried rice dish. It is a very good recipe to try when do not have enough time or do not feel like cooking much. With only few ingredients such as rice, eggs, and green onions, you can make very tasty meal quickly. This is good more than just a main dish with kimchi or other side dishes; it is also makes a good side dish, even it is not a Korean style meal. If you reduce the amount of salt or oil, this can be good for a kid’s meal too. If you do not know what to cook tonight, then maybe you can try this recipe – if you will have eggs, rice, and green onions.

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• Bom (봄) = Spring
• GahEul (가을) = Fall

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This is one of the various types of Korean soybean paste soup using spinach. Soybean paste is a very important ingredient in Korean cuisine. Except for the saltiness, there is some research that shows health benefits from soybean paste. You can adjust the amount of soybean paste for your dish depending on your taste or for your health. This is very easy to make, and of course it is delicious. So it’s good soup for your daily Korean meal.

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• SiGeumChi (시금치) = Spinach
• DeonJang (된장) = Soybean Paste

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This is a simple version of a Korean zucchini fritter. Typically, we cover sliced zucchini pieces with some flour, and then dip them into an egg mixture before frying them. However, today I will just dip the zucchini into a flour batter. You can eat these delicious zucchini fritters plain, but dipping them in a little soy sauce mixture makes them tasty even better. It is good for a lunch box, party appetizer, or as a side-dish for normal meals. If you are a vegetarian, you can skip the egg and add a little bit of more water to the batter.

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• ShinBal (신발) = Shoes
• YangMal (양말) = Socks

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This Korean style fruit salad is an another old fashioned food. It is made from different kinds of fruit, hard boiled quail eggs, crab sticks, and peanuts, all mixed with mayonnaise. Does it sounds weird or interesting to you? =P I guess, when mayonnaise was introduced to Korea, this salad was one of the uses for it.
In Korea, when somebody moves to a new house, they invite family or friends to their new house and have a meal together. I remember doing that. I went to those kind of parties with my parents many times. Almost every party had this salad. My mom also made it whenever we had a party at our house. As a kid, it was one of my favorite menu items for the meal. The fun part of eating this salad was digging to find the best parts – the pieces of crab or the eggs. (Oops, that does not sound like good table manners, but my excuse is that I was a kid. ㅋㅋㅋ)
Nowadays, there are many different kinds of fancy salad dressings from the Western world in Korea, so this old fashioned fruit salad is not as common as it was before. However, many people include me still miss this old fashioned salad every now and then. The sweetness from mixed fruits, slight saltiness from the crab sticks, nuttiness from the peanuts, and the egg flavor mixed together with mayonnaise – yummy~~~ Anyway, I was very excited to make this dish and share the recipe with you, because it is delicious and it can be a unique dish to try. I ate and ate after I made it. It was still as delicious as I remembered. @.@ Hehe, I hope you like it too.

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• Gwail (과일) = Fruit
• TtangKong (땅콩) = Peanuts

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Korean fish-sausage jeon (소세지 부침) is one of the most popular lunch box side-dishes from the old days. When sausage was introduced to Koreans for the first time, it was big hit, and since then Koreans started to make their own fish sausage like this. Later, we started eating ham, and ham replaced fish sausage in different kinds of Korean food such as kimbap, salad, jeon, etc. Slowly this fish sausage became less popular and is an old fashioned food now. Sometimes I miss this dish. It brings back my school day memories, and it still tastes good to me. So today, I will share this recipe with you.

Short Korean Lesson: *^^*

• SoSaeJi (소세지) = Sausage
• Ham (햄) = Ham
  

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