February 2012
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Sweet and Spicy Pickled Yellow Radish (단무지무침)
Charles is always wanting more Korean side dishes for supper, and suddenly remembered this one from his childhood! I resisted trying it, but when I did found it to be DELICIOUS!
About 300g Yellow Radish (Almost one line)-단무지
1.5T Red Pepper Powder-고추가루
1T Brown Sugar
1T Vinegar
1T Sesame Oil
1/2 tsp minced oil
A few chopped green onion pieces
A sprinkle of sesame seeds
Slice the raddish...
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Guilt-Free Yummy Fudge!
We tried another recipe from www.chocolatecoveredkatie.com. It was SOOO good, and husband approved. Here it is!:
2Tbsp Peanut Butter
2Tbsp Coconut Oil
2Tbsp Cocoa (you may want to use a tiny bit less)
1/2 Medium or 1 small VERY RIPE banana
Blend all ingredients together and put in a container (like a plastic sandwich container, or pie tin). (If it’s not sweet enough for you, you can add...
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(healthy) Ultimate Chocolate Fudge Pie
There’s a blog I’m CRAZY about called “Chocolate Covered Katie” (http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com) FULL of healthy alternative recipes. I tried this one last night and it was really good! We agreed that half a slice is plenty to be happily satisfied. Make it! You’re gonna love it! Here are the directions copied exactly from her blog followed by pictures of our own...
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Party Chicken Casserole
Like I’ve said before, I really don’t like to cook! I can never think of anything for supper, and I don’t have much time with a baby on my hip to whip up something fabulous. Until now! This is another great recipe that my brother and sister-in-law gave me. It’s so easy, it literally takes 5 minutes or less to prepare. My husband and I LOVE it, it feels like a party every...
January 2012
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Spaghetti Squash
My brother had been telling us about “spaghetti squash” and how great it is. We had it for supper one evening at his house and he was right! Tonight we cooked it at home for the first time. It was so easy that anyone could do it! It really tastes like spaghetti, I could barely notice a difference. You can buy a spaghetti squash at the normal grocery store with the other squashes. :)...
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Kettle Corn at Home
My mom brought home a bag of kettle corn from somewhere, and it was SO AMAZING GOOD FANTASTIC DELICIOUS ADDICTIVE. So, I thought, I’m sure we can figure out how to make it at home! Easy!
INGREDIENTS
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup popcorn kernels
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon coarse salt
DIRECTIONS:
In a large pot with a tight-fitting lid, heat the oil over medium-high heat. add the popcorn....
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Spicy Korean Mushroom Soup
I’m trying to be better at cooking Korea things so I started easy with a mushroom soup. I made it so spicy that I couldn’t eat any of the liquid. Oopsy. Next time it will be better!
Bring to a boil:
Half a medium sized pot of water
1-1.5 tbsp Hot red pepper paste
1/2 Tbsp dashida
1/2 tbsp garlic (minced)
Make sure you turn down the heat after it’s boiled or the foam from...
December 2011
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Your House Can Smell Like Christmas
I LOVE a house that smells festive and inviting. I’ve tried candles and incense but nothing has ever worked as deliciously as this! And so simple :) I’ve been burning the same pot for a couple of weeks, I just keep adding to it. Make sure to continue adding water so it doesn’t boil dry!
A few cinnamon sticks
A couple bay leads
Some whole cloves
A splash of vanilla
Whole...
November 2011
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Crock Pot Beef Stew Meat Meal?
This is the third slow-cooked meal of the week. We weren’t crazy about it, but it wasn’t that bad!
Ingredients:
4 medium red potatoes
1-1/2 lbs. beef stew meat
1/3 cup Whole Weat flour
salt and pepper to taste
14 oz. can diced tomatoes, undrained
2 cups water
3 carrots
Crushed Chilli Flakes
Preparation:
Scrub potatoes and cut each into quarters. Place in bottom of 4 quart...
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Slow Cooked Pork Tenderloin
This is the second slow cooked meal I made for us. I really liked it, but my husband was so-so on it.
ngredients 2 – 8 oz pork tenderloin 2 cups low sodium vegetable broth 1 large onion, chopped 3 cloves minced garlic 1 large sweet potato, chopped 2 tsp cayenne pepper 2 tsp curry powder 1 tsp cinnamon 2 cups chopped carrots 2 cups broccoli, chopped
Instructions Combine all ingredients. ...
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Apple and Rosemary Pork Chops
Like a lot of people, the most annoying question my husband and I ask each other almost every day is “What’s for supper?”. We throw our hands in the air, get frustrated, hate to even think about what we could possibly have. This week, I decided to find some new (and EASY) recipes, that I could do. I have very very little hands free time. Bobae loves to play with mom, be...
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Momma's Milk Cookies
I’ve been nursing Bobae exclusively since she was born. She is now 5 months old, and I thought I would try to find a fun way to keep my milk supply strong. I started taking “More Milk Plus” drops which seem to be working, and also found this recipe for milk supply cookies! And they are yummy. I baked 60 cookies, and left almost half of them in my mom’s freezer. My dad...
October 2011
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September 2011
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Sweet Baby Sleep
Most of you know that I haven’t had the best luck with sleep these last few months. For the first 3.5 months, Bobae was up almost every hour-2 hours in the night. In the evening she would get SO cranky. It’s funny.. it took us quite a while to actually realize that she was so cranky because she wanted to go to bed! oops! Sorry baby. We would try to start bedtime at 7:30. She would...
August 2011
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it will happen
There have been so many things recently that I felt would NEVER actually happen, but miraculously it always does! Here are some of them.
When I was pregnant, I listened for her heartbeat with the at home fetal doppler I bought. I would press it into my stomach, moving all around, gel all over the place trying to find the heartbeat. Then FINALLY after weeks of searching, I heard that beautiful...
July 2011
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birthday blessings
It’s only 3:45 and it’s already been an amazing, peaceful birthday! Here are the wonderful things that have happened already :) :
After I woke up to feed the baby at 5:30, her daddy took her to sleep with him in the living room for 3 more hours! 10+ hours of sleep for me! WOW!
Daddy made breakfast: Bacon, eggs, toast, potatoes, juice and a latte! YAY!
Bobae played in the swing...
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Six weeks of beautiful Bobae!
Six week update: Wow~! Things sure change a lot in 6 weeks don’t they? Most of the things that were so difficult and unbearable have gotten MUCH better! A lot of this has been made easier by the wonderful support of the smart ladies who became Mommies earlier in the year. I really cherish every piece of advice and encouragement from all of my mom-friends. When ever I start to freak out, I...
June 2011
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Bobae's Must haves~ First three weeks
Bobae is a week and a half old now. Wow~! Way to grow baby girl!! Before she was born, we bought every thing we thought we would need to welcome our precious treasure into our lives and homes. Some things have been extremely useful so far, and others are still waiting in her room for us to use them (maybe?). I just want to let other moms know what we personally have found very useful so far!...
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The First Two Weeks
Before Bobae was born, I knew I’d be an excellent mother. I knew everything would come naturally for me, and I would be so happy! Well, I’m definitely happy, but things sure didn’t come easily for me!!! The first two weeks have been quite hard. When I see my other friends’ post about motherhood they all seem so well adapted and natural about taking care of their precious...
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Bobae's Birth Story
WARNING:! There are some details about child birth that you may not want to know!!! I’m going to be completely honest about my labour and delivery~ details and all :) Consider yourself warned.
After we arrived home from the hospital I wrote an email to my friend who is also a new mom to tell her the details of our baby’s birth. I thought I had better put that story somewhere so...
May 2011
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Cloth Diapering~ really?
Well, we have made the decision to try cloth diapering with our baby. My due date is 5 days away, and I think we are pretty prepared! When we first started thinking about cloth diapering, it was so overwhelming that we almost gave up before we started. We searched diaper shops, talked to local moms who cloth diaper, researched blogs, and thought about it until our heads were spinning....
April 2011
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Ireland Honeymoon!
After a year and a half, I FINALLY have typed up our Honeymoon Diary!! I’ll add some more pictures later too :)
September 17th, 2009
We got to Ireland! Honeymoon time ^^
We got off the plane in Shannon, handed in our boarding cards and got our bags. Bought bus tickets from the vending machine to Galway (15E each), went outside and go on the bus at the first bus shelter.
*later*
We got to...
February 2011
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Slow Cooker Whole Wheat Mac N Cheese
This was supposed to be regular Mac N Cheese but I changed it to Whole Wheat. I think next time I would use half and half or maybe rice noodles? The WW pasta was just too sweet! Also, do NOT over cook it! I fell asleep and it turned out a little dry. Charles liked it tho because it wasn’t too cheesy for him at that point :p
2 C milk
1 Can evaporated milk
1 Tsp worcestershire...
January 2011
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Avalon Bassinet Review
Originally we had planned to use the cradle my dad made for my brother and I when we were babies. I was worried they might not have time to fix it up before the baby suddenly arrives, so I decided to purchase a bassinet. We bought this on sale at Zellers for 49$ originally 99$. I don’t LOVE it, but I don’t dislike it either.
PROS:
Rocks, vibrates, plays music
Has wheels
Very...
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Avalon 3 Wheel Jogger Review: Stroller
Yeesh, stroller shopping is a lot harder than we expected!! We went back and forth between buying a travel system and separate pieces, but decided to go with separates. We don’t want to end up leaving our baby sitting in a car seat longer than necessary and were really looking for a stroller that would recline fully. This is the second stroller we bought (the first didn’t work out...
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BILY All-in-1 Nursery Review
I’m 24 weeks along now and it’s finally time to start getting the nursery ready! Yay! We had planned to buy our crib online, for about 150$, use our old dresser for the baby, and use the top of the dresser for a change table. Last week, Zellers had a big baby sale, with the BILY All-in-1 Nursery on sale for 199$ regularly 399$! Yahoo! It was available in white and brown. Of course...
December 2010
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Pumpkin Seeds
It’s been 4 halloweens since I’ve been in Canada, so this year I wanted to carve pumpkins. After the carving, we saved the seed to cook.
Ingredients
2 tbsp Melted butter
2 Cups pumpkin seed
Salt & Sugar
Method
Preheat Oven to 300C
Clean off the seeds, get all of the gook off of them, dry with paper towel.
In a bowl, mix the seeds with the melted butter
Place flat on...
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Witch's Fingers
I made these cookies for my friend’s halloween party. The taste was light and almond-y, and would be great with coffee :)
Ingredients
1 cup (250 mL) butter, softened 1 cup (250 mL) icing sugar 1 egg 1 tsp (5 mL) almond extract 1 tsp (5 mL) vanilla 2-3/4 cups (675 mL) all-purpose flour 1 tsp (5 mL) baking powder 1 tsp (5 mL) salt...
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Strawberry Walnut Muffins
As with all things, my husband wanted walnuts in the muffins, so I threw them in and they were delicious! Easy and yummy <3
Ingredients
1/4 cup canola oil
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup white sugar
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup chopped strawberries
1/2 C chopped walnuts
Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) oil an 8...
October 2010
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frozen blueberry muffins
I’ve been wanting blueberry muffins so i decided, why not try to make them?! Easy peasy! They were so quick to whip up, and they were delicious. Don’t worry, the batter will be thick, but don’t over mix! JUST until moistened^^ ~~ yuuuummm
Ingredients
4 cups all-purpose flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
2 cups sugar
4...
September 2010
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Crustless Pizza
Okay, for all of you people who don’t eat carbs, this is AMAZING. I’m shocked at how good this is. I didn’t think that it would be like normal pizza, but honestly it’s better than any pizza I’ve ever had with crust, or even in a restaurant! My husband couldn’t even tell there was no crust! Yowza! Also, I know there are two “1”s but I can’t...
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Rosemary Chicken Stew with Oat Dumplings
It was cold and rainy today so I decided to make a stew for the first time! It was great for me, but my husband doesn’t seem to be a stew person in Canada. I think he may be cranky since he quit smoking today. Anyway more for me! YUM!
Stew
1 tbsp Butter
1 Big potatoe
4 Carrots
2 Big chicken breasts (boneless skinless)
1tsp rosemary, salt and pepper
1 Tbsp Flour
Reduces Sodium Chicken...
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Creamy Lasagna
Wow it’s been a while huh? Well, my husband and I have just moved back to Canada! We’ve been here almost three weeks, but it’s been about 2 months since I’ve had a computer at my house, so I haven’t updated my blog. Yikes.
Okay, since we came home, we’ve been hitting yardsales and picking up cookbooks. I wanted to impress my husband with a nice meal in our...
June 2010
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Joseph's House~ A day with the deaf.
About 2 months ago, my God mother asked me to and my husband to join her for a sign language class in June. We said yes, filled out a form,and forgot about it. Then on Friday, we re-remembered that we had to go there on Saturday, we called to see what time and she said 9am-4pm. WHAT are you SERIOUS? We wanted more than ANYthing not to go, and to just stay home and relax, but we couldn’t...
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Thin Crust Black Olive and Walnut Pizza
My husband was gone for the day for military training, and I wanted to have dinner ready when he got home, but we were out of most foods! No rice, no meat, no vegetables. I realized I had flour and yeast so I could make PIZZA! But.. there’s no toppings! So we still have walnuts from that giant bag from Costco, and I’ve been trying to think up ways to use them anyway, and why not add...
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fingerprint class
every few weeks, we have a unit that has some kind of “experiment” in it. last time, it was making a rainbow in the bathroom (using a flashlight, cup of water, and a mirror) and the kids go nuts for these special days. a few days ago, the experiment was dusting for fingerprints. they were so excited to do this, and couldn’t wait for monday to come. well right before their...
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grandfather park's near death experience
last night, my husband and i went to his parent’s house for a second dinner and soju. his mom was telling my Godmother a story about her father, which reminded my husband that he had never told me before.
when my husband was little, his grandfather got very sick. he was no longer responsive, so the doctors told the family that it was time to take him home and prepare for the funeral,...
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Blender Cleaning Tip
Sometimes it’s annoying to blend things, because then you have to clean the blender right? Here’s a tip! When you’re finished blending, fill the blender half way or so with warm water. Put in some dish soap, and blend for about 30 seconds! Rinse, and finished! Easy? ^^
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대~한민국!! clap clap clap crap!
We won!!!!!
There aren’t many things that truly make my husband excited and deeply happy. He’s a pretty happy guy in general, but not THAT easily excited. Except soccer. Korea is nuts about soccer, as a whole. They love a chance to show national pride, so now that the World Cup has started, and Korea has qualified to play, they are going CRAZY!
Yesterday was the first game for...
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banana ice cream
it’s been so hot here, so i decided that last friday would be cooking day at my school. my friend, meg, sent me a link to this amazing “one ingredient” ice cream. wow~! so fun!
all you need? bananas.
1. First peel the bananas and freeze them.
2. Take out frozen bananas and chop them into smaller pieces. Blend them! They will get chunky at first, but as you blend, they will...
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taco chicken
sometimes.. i wonder what i can do with chicken breasts. then, i figure out i could use the taco seasoning mom sent me in the mail! thus becomes: taco chicken. so easy. just do it ^^
4 small boneless skinless chicken breasts
pack of taco seasoning.
I put the pieces of chicken up into small pieces, covered them in taco seasoning and put them in a tupperware dish over night in the fridge....
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Cake Mix Cookies
My adult class was having their final test today, so they asked me last time if we could have a “book finish party” so i said if they did a good job on the test, i would make them cookies. I’m too busy. But, i found a good recipe, and decided to use a cake mix I got for christmas! They LOVED them! They ate almost all of them before I could take a picture. There was still one...
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manicure you can do!
well, one of my best friends is studying nail art, and she did really cool things to my nails a couple of weeks ago. BUT it was wearing off, so i had to figure out something new! here’s something u can do yourself!
First, put tape on all of your nails, leaving just the ends bare. paint them a pretty color like pink. remove the tape. voila! then when it’s dry, cover with a clear top...
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an outfit
i wanted to shop, but since we’re saving our money, i decided to pretend shop (eye shop?) and “buy” a new outfit ^^
Lace of our Lives Dress etc
This dress is SO cute and perfect for summer! Right? ^^$57.99 www.modcloth.comLace of our Lives DressHow about a bag to go with it?
Steve Madden Handbag, Ruffles Marta Clutch
$48.00www1.macys.comOh! Don’t forget the shoes. i...
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10 things that make me happy
The last couple of months have been so stressful, deciding to come back to Canada, worrying about jobs, dealing with international stuff, so, i want to take a few minutes, and think of 10 things that make me happy :) I’m not including my family and friends, because those things go without saying.
1. Flowers. I LOVE flowers. I love to see them, smell them, receive them, give them, eat...
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Maple Walnut Pie~ with love
My husband’s absolute favorite desserts are pecan and walnut pie (actually I don’t think he knows the difference between the two). He’s had a stressful couple of days, and since he’s gone to play soccer for the afternoon, I decided to figure out how to acutally MAKE a walnut pie, and surprise him! yay~!!
First you have to make the crust (don’t cook it, just get it...
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home is where the food is
WELL as mostly everyone knows by now, we have decided to come home! We will be home probably the middle of August! yahoO~! :) Anyhow, today we started making a grocery list. It has been three years since I could shop at a normal grocery store for normal food, for my house. SO it’s very very exciting. Also, imagining that we will be COOKing this food on a normal stove, with a normal...
May 2010
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Best Oatmeal Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies
Today, our house was really clean, and we were watching movies, and finally had free time, so we decided to make cookies~!!! I had requirements today: coconut, oatmeal, chocolate. PERFECT!
1 1/4 c. oatmeal
1 c. flour
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. brown sugar
1 c. flake coconut
1/2 c. chocolate chips
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 c. oil
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
Mix all dry ingredients together...
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Thin Crust BBQ Chicken Pizza Amazingness
My poor husband had to go plant a rice field on Friday, the holiday we had planned to spend so nicely together, relaxing, meeting friends, etc. Soooo I wanted to make him something dericious to return too~! He unthawed ALL of the chicken breast when I was making pasta the night before, so I had to figure out some way to use it up. Voila!
First: The chicken
Cut up a couple of chicken breasts...