Mackerel

[rice cracker]

Dear Mackeral,

I think I just have to come out and say this: I love you. I love everything about you. You're just so damn good. When I think back to my youth, you seem to be such a prominent fixture in my developing years. Many a day I would come home to the salty tang of your crisp flesh floating in the air. There was nothing I liked better than sitting down to a plate full of your charred bodies, glistening, waiting for me to eat them around big mouthfuls of fresh white rice. Even though all the kids teased me because I was fat and had acne, you never judged me. Ever. You were always there for me.

Hey, remember back in the day when I found out I could buy you for 100 yen at the corner grocery mart? That was one of the best days of my young life. You and me, Mackerel, just you and me. Halcyon days of beer vending machines and frolicking with my delicious saltwater friend.

Isn't it funny how I've grown up and put so many childish things behind me, yet you remain? I guess funny isn't the word. It's just so natural, Mackerel, how you've grown with me. All these different sauces I've put on you, all the variations with which I've eaten you, and now, here I sit, with my plate of fried Mackerel and a bowl of fresh white rice, just like the old days. I never want you to leave me, Mackerel, that's why I eat you. So you can stay inside me forever. Forever.

Love,

Your bosom buddy Kim

[BeTheReds]

Kodungeo rules!

[rice cracker]

Originally Posted by BeTheReds

Kodungeo rules!

Back off my fish, biyatch!




PS,

I do not really know what kodungeo means.

[BeTheReds]

Originally Posted by rice cracker

Back off my fish, biyatch!




PS,

I do not really know what kodungeo means.

Mackrel

[yoMAMA]

Mackrel?

i thought you were talking about easy macs.....;)

[rice cracker]

Originally Posted by BeTheReds

Mackrel

Coo, thanks. *eyes her Mackerel love rival warily*


Picture of my friend, Mackerel:



So shiny, crisp, and delicious. *smacks lips*


But as much as I love my fried or broiled Mackerel, I can't help myself when this sassy, silky, exotic minx Saba is in the room, sashaying around with a wiggle in her step and a glint in her eye

[BeTheReds]

Originally Posted by rice cracker

Coo, thanks. *eyes her Mackerel love rival warily*


Picture of my friend, Mackerel:



So shiny, crisp, and delicious. *smacks lips*


But as much as I love my fried or broiled Mackerel, I can't help myself when this sassy, silky, exotic minx Saba is in the room, sashaying around with a wiggle in her step and a glint in her eye

Kondungeo jigae is always good too.

[rice cracker]

Originally Posted by BeTheReds

Kondungeo jigae is always good too.

Do you have a recipe, old buddy, old pal?

[yoMAMA]

wow....looks good....

[BeTheReds]

Originally Posted by rice cracker

Do you have a recipe, old buddy, old pal?

Not an exact one. Usually I make it by throwing whatever ingredients I happen to have at the moment into a pot, but I'll give it a go.

Lets see...

Get some napa cabbage and chop it into pieces the size that cut kimchi usually is. Soak them in water with a high salt concentration.

Open 2 cans of Mackrel (prefereably if you bought it at the Asian grocery store, 2 cans are the same size as 2 cambells soup cans) (If not, then it would be the equivalent of 3 flat cans of mackrel which you got from your local American chain grocery store.)

Pour the contents, of the cans, oily mess and all into a pot and add a little bit of water to account for evaporation.

Add garlic if you like that sort of thing.

Bring the water to a boil, then turn the heat down to simmer.

You can add a block of tofu but it isn't necessary. It makes it a little more filling tho, if you're not the fan of eating lots of rice with it.

Crucial parts....

Get some gochu-jjang and add enough that the simmering broth will change to an orange-ish color. Too red and it will be too spicy, but too orange and it will be too bland. If spice is your thing then add some gochu-karo too.

Strain the napa that was in salt water earlier, making sure that none of the salt water (except for that inside the napa itself) gets into the soup. This soup can be totally ruined by adding the salt water.

Add the napa and some diagonally chopped spring onions.

Wait until the napa is less crispy, but not so long that it turns to mush. By now, the canned mackrel should have been partially broken up by the movement of all the ingredients, permeating small pieces of it thruout the soup. Tho big mackrel chunks will still be there for your delight.

Lock the cat in another room.

Eat with rice.

Warning! This is by no means "Authentic Korean Cooking" because it comes from me watching my dad and trying to correctly guess what goes into it. He'd probably be very angry that I'm forgetting something or adding too much of something else. At any rate, it tastes good to me so it can't be all that bad.

[rice cracker]

You are my beloved oppa, muah muah.

My recipe for canned mackerel was always: Dump into pot. Add soy sauce and garlic, water if needed. Boil. Pick the fish bits out and eat with rice.

Best thing about canned mackerel is that the bones are really soft so you don't have to pick them out and wind up with smelly mackerel fingers.

I apologize to my friend Mackerel. While I find your smell delightful, I have to be honest (and that's what relationships are built on, right? Honesty?) others may find your mouth watering aroma a little too fishy.

[BeTheReds]

Originally Posted by rice cracker

You are my beloved oppa, muah muah.

My recipe for canned mackerel was always: Dump into pot. Add soy sauce and garlic, water if needed. Boil. Pick the fish bits out and eat with rice.

Best thing about canned mackerel is that the bones are really soft so you don't have to pick them out and wind up with smelly mackerel fingers.

I apologize to my friend Mackerel. While I find your smell delightful, I have to be honest (and that's what relationships are built on, right? Honesty?) others may find your mouth watering aroma a little too fishy.

Others are frickin retards!

[rice cracker]

Originally Posted by BeTheReds

Others are frickin retards!

TESTIFY!

[applehead]

Originally Posted by rice cracker

But as much as I love my fried or broiled Mackerel, I can't help myself when this sassy, silky, exotic minx Saba is in the room, sashaying around with a wiggle in her step and a glint in her eye

kim you're such a loon!
have you ever had the canned ones
in kimchi gigae?
i used to make that all the time
but now, for some reason, the thought
of canned fish grosses me.

[sandra]

why is mackerel holy?