After I visited my hometown Yeosu in 2015, one factor I wished to do was cook dinner a scrumptious hometown meal for my auntie. Since she was my mother’s closest good friend, I’ve referred to as her “auntie” since childhood. She’s at all times been a relentless supply of assist for my mother, by her aspect throughout each comfortable and difficult moments in our household. Rising up I spent hours and hours together with her. She taught me so much about cooking and over time she grew to become a task mannequin in loads of different methods too. She was good, resourceful, stylish, had an exquisite sense of design and was very frugal.
I hadn’t seen her in a few years after we filmed this video. I wished to carry her a present, and after some thought I made a decision that cooking her favourite meals can be one of the best. So I deliberate a seafood-themed desk. I went to the native seafood market the place I used to observe my mother after I was younger and picked out the freshest wild abalones, pen shell scallops, and spinach.
It was a drizzly day, however we had a heat and great time, having fun with freshly made abalone porridge collectively whereas reminiscing about outdated occasions. It was great to cook dinner for her and have her benefit from the meal a lot. Later after I returned to the USA and instructed my mother all about this, she praised me, saying I did nicely.
Sadly, my aunt handed away a number of years after we filmed this video. Wanting again, the abalone meal I ready for her turned out to be my first and final reward to her.
I made these Actual Korean Cooking Tales so you could possibly see a few of my life, the individuals I do know and love, and the way we actually cook dinner and luxuriate in meals. After I make recipe movies at residence I’ve lighting and cameras and I do know the place all the things is. In these movies I by no means know what the kitchen can have, and there’s no skilled lighting, we’re simply filming within the second and having enjoyable. I’m glad so many individuals have reacted positively to this sequence of movies and are having fun with them. Under are the recipes for a number of the dishes I made on this video if you wish to make them too!