Tuesday, 3/14/17

Another snow day, full of cooking projects. I found the most complicated cookie recipe I could (from Dorie's Cookies): chocolate coconut base, coconut pastry cream, chocolate crumb topping, baked up in muffin tins. These are more like a cross between a brownie and cupcake; very rich and chocolately. I would only make a bit more pastry cream and use a little less coconut.

Then I made some Korean-ish pickles (using Tyler Kord's brine--I found the recipe on the internet), some "Emergency Kim Chi" from Maangchi's blog, and some spinach from there too. The kimchi is too new to evaluate; the spinach tasted terrific (you blanch it and top with scallions, garlic, sesame oil and sesame seeds) but a big bag of fresh spinach cooked down to a comically tiny amount. A few bites, really. We also had chicken bulgogi, from David Liebowitz. I couldn't grill it, but it was still good. Will dial back the gochuchang next time, at Carter's request. Then we watched a bad movie and I call that a pretty good snow day.