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Little friend in our garden.

Devil horned lizard(?)

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Chicken porridge when you don't have any appetite.

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Rice ball (주먹밥) for those days when you are too tired to cook. Just mix together leftover rice, seasoned nori, can of spicy tuna and a bit of sesame oil. These are also great to keep in freezer for later meal.

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Bought green onions on sale.

Ones in ziplock bags are to keep in freezer, mainly to be used in soups and broths.

Fresh ones with roots still attached is for stir fry cooking.

And root stems in cups for re-growing.

Making them last at least double the use time.

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Homemade pizza

Before

After

Recipe

Dough:

3 cups flour

1.5 tbs butter

1 tbs sugar

1 tsp salt

1 tsp yeast

Toppings:

Tomato Pasta Sauce

Mozzarella cheese

Mushroom

Onions

Fresh basil leaves

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Caterpillar(?)

Found it at a park. Not sure what it is. A bird dropped it in mid-flight on a pavement. First thought was that it was a gummy worm. Took a long stick to let it climb, moved it to grassy area.

UPDATE: Now I know it is a Lime Hawk moth (Mimas Tiliae)

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Grilled peach ice cream

Heat grill to medium heat.

Wash and halve peaches; take out the pits.

Grill peaches on heated grill cut side down for about 6 minutes.

Turn over and grill another 5 minutes.

Once the peaches are grilled, move to a plate.

Scoop ice cream on top of the peach.

Drizzle honey.

Sprinkle salt flakes.

Enjoy!

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김밥 always takes much time to make.

It took me 3 hours to make plate full.

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미역국 (Seaweed Soup)

미역 (Japanese wakame) contains much minerals in them: kalium, magnesium and calcium. It is widely known in Korea to help cleanse blood vessels by breaking down cholestrols and fats. They also believe that it provides much needed nutrients to mothers who has just delivered a baby as well as producing breast milk. Consequently, it is a Korean tradition to eat 미역국 on every birthdays. It also helps with women's menstruation.

From this:

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Fried Gyoza with soysauce.

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Pan Roasted Filet Mignon

Remove fats from meat and chop into bite size.

Slice bell pepper, onion, green onion & garlics.

In heated pan, cook meat & garlic until the meat STARTS to turn brown.

Add the sliced veggies and continue to roast until onions turn translucent.

Season with salt & pepper.

Serve.

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Spring Rolls with sweet chili and peanut butter sauce

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Dalgona (달고나) Coffee

It's what's trending in Korea now.

"Dalgona coffee (달고나커피) is a beverage made by whipping equal proportions of instant coffee powder, sugar, and hot water until it becomes creamy and then adding it to cold or hot milk. Occasionally, it is topped with coffee powder, cocoa, crumbled biscuits, or honey. It was popularized on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people refraining from going out started making videos of whipping the coffee at home, by hand without using electrical mixer. The name is derived from dalgona, a Korean sugar sweet, due to the resemblance in taste and appearance, though most dalgona coffee doesn't actually contain dalgona." -from wiki.

I tried without a mixer. Can't do it.😥

Ended up using mixer in the end.😁

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Chow mein made from scratch, even the egg noodles.

Who needs panda...

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Mackerel pan fried.

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Sweet Potato sprouted tiny leaves!

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Meatloaf with side of white & sweet potato mash, veggies and corns.