About Me
miyoung at market in seattle
I’m Mi-Young Kim from Korea. I’ve been living in Washington DC since 2005. I was planing to study English only for one year and then go back to Korea. Somehow I ended up working as a webmaster in DC. Most of my friends still say “I cannot believe that you live in America! You hated English!”
Besides it is surprising that I’m writing my own blog about cooking and food. Of course I cook, but I don’t like staying in the kitchen more than 20 minutes in deed.
Let me look back. Cooking was more like a surviving game to me. 2005 and 2006 was so tough years through entire my life. Because I had no money except the tuition fee for the language school I went to. I had to work in some sushi restaurant as a host. I only earned $500 – 600 a month at that time. So before I went to grocery shopping, I had to make a perfect plan so that I wouldn’t exceed my budget for only grocery. I also tried to use all ingredients I bought. I never threw away my food and ingredients.
For example, if I buy a cabbage, I cook some cabbage soup, cabbage rolls, and cabbage salad etc. Until I finish the cabbage, I don’t use new ingredients. This has been my grocery shopping routine. I’ve accustomed to this routine and I realized that It saves money and not waste of food.
So now I’m so used to cooking with just little ingredients and short time. This is how I enjoy cooking for myself.
Here is my point for you why you may need reading my blog.
if you hate staying in your kitchen too long but have limited budget to eat out, you may try my recipe.
If you are curious to cook exotic Asian food, try!
If you are vegetarian and want to try different recipe from usual veggie food, try mine!
And I want everyone to have delicious Korean food at least one time in your life with easy and cheap ingredients by yourself instead going to expensive Korean restaurants.
Feel free to ask me if you have any questions about my recipe.
Lets go to H Mart and get ingredients for future posts. I’m hungry!
Sure! Schedule it before I visit Korea.
Mi-Young, I’m so happy to have found your site. I make your jap chae recipe with sweet potato noodles for me and my kids! And I LOVE H-Mart. It would be so fun to go there with you one day. I’ll buy you all the red bean doughnuts you can possibly eat.