Pickles and stews

Josh bought these beautiful radishes from Burge at the PRFM. He asked me to pickle them so I found a recipe, attacked them with my benriner, and out came these pickles. They'll be ready on Wednesday.

He deliberately got a pretty selection of radishes so I hope they keep the bright vibrant colors that they have now.

We did Korean bbq last week and it turned out awesome. And then we had the leftovers again and it was also awesome. So we bought more beef this week so last two whole meals (hopefully).

Last week, we bought a Korean radish is make mu ssam, which is out wrap of choice when we go out for Korean bbq. Since we needed apple vinegar to cure it, I didn't start until this weekend.

So it starts with thinly slicing the radish and then letting it sit in a salty watery mixture overnight.

Then you rinse it off, layer them, and top them with a brine which lets it ferment for 5-15 days. I barely have 5 days since I'd like us to eat them with the beef so hopefully this works out okay. The recipe also calls for keeping the mu ssam in a "cool area" so I hope that will be my counter while it's in the 60s this week.

Both of our lamb shares came in this month which means that the freezer is full of lamb. I defrosted some of the Many Folk neck steaks and put it together in for an Irish stew. Although I based on the recipe on Bittman's Irish stew, I ended up completing winging it so that I could have the potatoes and carrots I wanted plus a thicker stew than just a thin soup. I think it turned out pretty well, but we'll see when we heat it up this week.

For dinner tonight, I made a kimchi stew, similar to the one that we have at MK-1. It's pork neck bones, kimchi, zucchini, jalapenos, mushrooms, tofu, and rice cakes. Overall, I think it was okay, but I also think I'll be hungry tomorrow morning!

It's probably a good time to mention that I made a pack of breakfast burritos. Each one contain some black beans, egg, white onion, charred jalapenos, cilantro, scallions, and Oaxacan cheese. We tried one out and it was okay. But I put two in the fridge and the rest in the freezer. I hope they all turn out okay...