Category: Food (Page 17 of 22)

Korean food and recipes

Mint

2013/04/12 / Nic / 61 Comments

My husband doesn’t like mint in anything sweet. I’ve met a lot of Koreans like that too. I had an awkward experience one time when hanging out with some Korean girls in Sydney and we wanted to buy some chocolate biscuits (cookies if you are American). They told me that I could choose…. so I chose some mint chocolate ones that are very popular in Australia. We got back to the apartment, planning to sit around and chat and eat and one of the girls took a bite of a biscuit and was like “Is this mint???!!” Then no one ate any of the biscuits and they sat awkwardly on the table for a long time. Koreans, let me know in the comment section, do you like mint in sweet foods? Are there any Korean sweet snacks or desserts with mint?

The mint thing does cause some disagreements for us. If we are choosing an icecream flavour at the supermarket I usually want mint choc chip (my favourite) but he refuses to eat it, so we usually settle on chocolate or caramel (his favourite).

I bought a packet of Mint Slice the other day, and I’ve been, not so slowly, making my way through the whole pack. He isn’t going to touch them!

Ice cream for Dinner

2013/04/11 / Nic / 22 Comments

Guys, don’t buy the honey and macdamia ice cream cones- I think the brand was Drumstick. They were terrible! You think it’s going to all nice and honeycomby but it’s literally just a squirt of honey on top! It tastes like breakfast cereal! I hate breakfast cereal! I know I’m probably in the minority here but I don’t eat breakfast cereal, it’s gross to me. I don’t mind something like porridge but all the others….. not for me. I prefer something like toast and fruit for breakfast. My husband who loves breakfast cereal (he’ll take 10 mins deciding in the supermarket to make sure he gets the perfect one) hated the taste of this icecream too.

It was so disappointing deciding to be naughty and eat ice cream first and then it was terrible… If you are going to act childish like that make sure it’s worth it and you get triple chocolate or something.

Today there was supposed to be a video but it’s taking sooooooo long to upload to youtube. We answered a bunch of your questions. It’s still uploading. This is why I have backup comics!

Missing Something

2013/04/09 / Nic / 28 Comments

So he went and got the 2 kilo container of kimchi. He eats a lot more kimchi than I do. I’m absolutely fine if there is no kimchi on the table. I like it and usually eat a little bit, but I’m not that concerned if we forget it.

Seaweed Seaweed

2013/04/03 / Nic / 37 Comments

Hey guys! No comic today! What? Noooooo!! BUT we have a video instead! This is just a quick one I filmed yesterday for you guys. My husband and a friend were editing another video so I took the opportunity to do something for you guys while they were working.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycz6ZCEFBqw

Obviously I don’t always talk in a stupid voice haha.

I actually got lots and lots of dried seaweed that should last me a while. Such a great present.

Hot Cross Buns

2013/03/24 / Nic / 43 Comments

Have you had hot cross buns before? Around Easter they are everywhere here. They are for Easter so obviously those that live somewhere that doesn’t celebrate Easter is unlikely to eat them…. but I think the also USA isn’t as big on them as much the UK and Australia is. According to Wikipedia Australia is one of the only countries to make chocolate hot cross buns ones as well as the normal ones.

My husband loves the chocolate ones. He saw them in the supermarket a month ago but I didn’t let him buy them because it was too early. He bought them yesterday and was pretty excited. The chocolate ones are nice but I think I prefer the original ones. I’ve also seen on some commercials there are sticky date ones available now, but I haven’t tried those ones yet.

We aren’t having an Easter dinner with my family this year unfortunately. Normally we all come together for the Easter weekend but my parents get back from Japan Saturday night and my husband is working over the weekend. We’ll have to do something just by ourselves on Sunday night I think… and give each other lots of chocolate eggs. Yay! Chocolate!

No Flowers

2013/03/19 / Nic / 23 Comments

So basically he judges how good a present is by whether you can eat it or not.

It wasn’t even kimchi in a proper container, it was just one of the refill ones in a plastic bag! I think he was just grocery shopping on the way to the train station, then realised once he was there that he didn’t have flowers or anything for me so was like, “Oh yes, I bought this kimchi especially for you!”

Cold Tea

2013/02/20 / Nic / 27 Comments

So gross! We do actually have bottles of cold tea in our fridge but for some reason he likes English Breakfast tea with milk and honey in it that has been sitting there all day! He does usually have a few sips when I first give it to him but he then forgets about it. When he remembers it hours later he thinks it tastes better.

Personally I like my tea hot.

And yes he has a Tardis mug.