Kimchi, also spelled gimchi, kimchee, or kim chee, is a traditional fermented Korean dish made of vegetables with a variety of seasonings.This is Korea’s national dish, and there are hundreds of varieties made with a main vegetable ingredient such as napa cabbage, radish, scallion, or cucumber. Kimchi is also a main ingredient for many Korean dishes such as kimchi stew (김치찌개; kimchi jjigae), kimchi soup (김칫국; kimchiguk), and kimchi fried rice (김치볶음밥; kimchi bokkeumbap). I first ate kimchi in New Malden, where there are many Korean restaurants. Kimchi is so addictive that I had to have some at home. […]
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Rare roast beef is hard to cook using traditional roasting methods. When I cooked beef at a high temperature (160°C-180°C), in the past, it cooked quickly. However, if I monitored the core temperature and stopped cooking when it reached 60°C, only the inner core was rare, the outer third of the joint was well done, and it was medium rare in between.One day, I went to a major hotel for Sunday lunch and saw a big joint of roast beef that was all rare apart from a thin, well-done crust. I tracked down one of the chefs and asked […]