Soon dooboo Jjigae - 순두부 찌개

아녕하세요!
Hello! What's up? Nothing- really? Oh-my I've been busier than a bumble bee!
So you ask "why?", Because I made soon dooboo Jjigae! It means soft tofu stew in English.
I looked the recipe up on the Internet yesterday and found two completely different recipes that I both liked, but I came to this conclusion "why can't I have meat and lot's of vegetables in my stew?!" and I mixed up the two very wonderful recipes to make my Soon dooboo Jjigae!
The original recipes are from the two lovely blogs, thanks so much Christina Kim, and Dr. Ben Kim! (I'll post the original recipe websites at the end of this post. :) )
Some of you Might be wondering why did I make this; what drove me to make this delicious stew?Well, I've had this stew be for at friends houses and I have always love how it comforts you in a way- what I'm trying to say is that when it could outside and your in your nice comfy lion slippers and your hungry, there's nothing better then a warm soup to heat you up. except for Soon dooboo Jjigae! It's aroma just warms you, and it's not only the fact the the soups hot. It's the fact that the soups slightly on the spice side so it warms you up and gets you blod-a pumpin'!
Now enough chitter-chatter! let's get cracken'!

You will need:

* Red chili powder
* White onion
* Garlic
* Sesame oil
* Kimchi
* yellow or white flesh potato
* carrot
* red and green bell pepper
* zucchini
* oyster mushrooms.* (OPTIONAL)
* spring or green onion
* miso (or soybean paste)
* one egg (any color can be brown or white.)
* 1 or two packages of silken tofu


TIP: If you use two packages of silken tofu I do not recommend adding the egg.
Only use the egg if you are using one package of tofu.


Let’s start buy adding 4 tablespoons of sesame oil, to a medium sized pot. then dump in some red chili powder about 2 tablespoons, stir this around until the chili powder becomes a slightly darker red, just Before it starts to burn. Then add a half a large white onion (chopped!) and about 1Tbsp of minced garlic.

After letting this cook for about 4 or 5 minutes, or, until the onion be
comes tender.


Then add about 3/4 cup of chopped kimchi (with the juice!!) to the mixture. *Yummy!!*
After letting this cook for 2 minutes, let’s get ready to add some fresh vegetables!

You should have one zucchini, One yellow or white flesh potato - whichever you prefer will do. One small carrot and *a good handful of oyster mushrooms.* (OPTIONAL) One spring onion, about half a red bell pepper, half a green bell pepper. And good handful of broccoli. Chop all this to medium sized pieces. (like in the picture above)

TIP: when you are frying the onion garlic and kimchi all together you can put the heat on low and cook it for 7 mins and this way you have more time to prepare for the next step!

Now add 5 or 6 cups of water and add the zucchini, broccoli, red and green bell peppers, (and mushrooms if using) to the mix - let things boil on for another 5 minutes or until the zucchini is tender.


Now it’s time to add the miso( or soybean paste.). For about 5 cups of water, you'll need a heaping tablespoon of miso. And when I say heaping, I mean heaping!
Then add one or two package(s) of light silken tofu.

Bring to a boil and cook for about 5 mins.

Then add a beated egg. You want the egg to look like in the example below.
Then stream in the egg and cook for 4 mins with frequent stirring.

Let cool until at a comfortable temperature, serve, and enjoy!

Serves 4 or 6.

(Depends on how much soup you serve to people.)


Thanks for reading! To visit the sites of the original recipes go here and here.


Some of the picture here are from the original recipes. I could not have made this recipe if it weren't for the original recipe’s creator’s Christina Kim, and Dr. Ben Kim!


If anyone has any questions at all feel free to post them!


- Screw ballz/ 나디아

lonely, I'm mister lonely

I'm mister lonely, as sit in my chair, I twiddle my fingers to the sound of despair.
the clock tick's away; as time is not abundant, I sit in my chair;
to watch my youth go by only like a fly.
This is an expression of my sadness, not just a silly poem; this is how a feel, inside-
an hour glass goes, the sand inside as a steady stream of water not to realize how it feels inside; I twiddle my fingers to the sound of that fly.
As I sit in my chair with that bare stare to Wonder why, I think of an apple. It blooms in the spring on a big, bountiful tree only to be eaten; but does the apple care?
It blooms, to be a beautiful flower, and the hour glass goes, it tips; and the stream flows.
The flower ages to fold to a bud, to rounden' to an apple, to be picked, to be eaten. But does the flower care?
The flower blooms to be an apple; the tree chooses to keep the flower alive; dose the tree care?
the tree lives wild and majestic, free of human like burdens. It lives a simple life. It feeds off of things that have long died in the soil; and grows to feed others.
It grows to feed the birds so that they may not feel the sorrow the tree may feel when he has feed to many. The soil dries, and that flower dies.
I ask the fly as it stands by my side "does to soil care?"
and the fly cry's the soil cares, for if it didn't, the birds would have died. the tree died for another tree that grew of it's seed. To keep the birds alive.
So as I sit in my chair to thank the fly, I say " to think that my only sorrow was that of my youth fly by." The hour glass stops and the fly dies.

Written by- Screw ball/나디아.

봄! (spring!)

안녕하세요!
Have you ever noticed that when spring come around people tend to put the books down and start running around or gardening?
They want to be out side and to turn there music off for a little to listen to the animals (동물); the birds (새) especially. I personally have taken pleasure of hearing the joyous sounds of the birds (새); and have taken it upon my self to build a little vegetable garden for my my family and I.
Though It's only going to be 60cm (2ft) long, I'm still excited to build it!
[I'll post about my garden box in my next post.] If it can stop raining for just 3 days my treated wood could dry and I could water proof my garden box, but, because it's been so humid my wood is drying at snail-pace. :( Well, guess there's no used getting mad a the rain so instead I'll take this time to Cherish the season 봄 (spring) and show off my Korean skillz at the same time! ;D

1. 봄 means spring the season in korean. pronounced: p-ou-m
2. 동물 means animal in korean, and is pronounced: toung-mul
3. 새 means bird in korean. It is pronounced: Sae
4. 안녕하세요. means hello and good morning in korean, and is pronounced: ann-young-ha-say-yo.

well, if you guy's noticed all the word I used in this list were in my paragraph, hope you guys enjoy the rainy spring, And liked my educational blog post! d(^^)b (yay! learning!!!)

-screw ball/나디아 out! ☮ – peace

The adventures of Fiber and Feet: Exclusive lion sipper series

Have you ever wondered what my slippers look like?
Well, what I mean is I’ve written about 50; least 50 blogger post in a year and they have ranged from food to sports to accidents to pretty much anything else you can imagine, but one thing I’ve never written about, is my wonderful slippers!
Haven’t all of you just once ever wondered what my slippers look like?
Or have you all just assumed that I didn’t wear any?
Well, Either way I guess I’ll just have to tell you !
To start off I’ll tell you all what they look like. (your oooo’s and awwww’s are greatly appreciated in my descriptive lion slipper series.)
Here’s A clue the title “ Lion slipper series” says a lot; and googleing this will not give you a picture of my slippers!....
Well, maybe two of them but you wont be able to guess which slippers look like mine! (trust me I already googled it to find out if many of the people of the world own my slippers, and apparently most of them do not!)
So, Back to describing my lion slippers!
My oh so hand lion slippers are and absolute fashion do for the winter, and look much like a real lion head.
The lions head is dark cream color, his main is a nice soothing caramel color In the mist of the main there are two small light cream colored ears that look as if land marks among the open safari fields.
Move down about 2 inches and you see there are two wide opened eyes glazed with focus and a color so deep its like a sea of chocolate.
It’s face is characterized by a large nose which is pink like the tips of an Asiatic lilly, there snouts are an off white boldly standing out with penny sized dot of what seems like coal.

Now see if you imagined what my slippers really look like.

screw ball out! night ya'll!