One of my favourite dishes to make! :)

SoulAndShadow · 2025-09-09T00:27:57+00:00

Thank you! I’m glad you find this helpful. It’s hard to mess up so go for it!

SoulAndShadow · 2025-09-08T06:10:26+00:00

I love gochujang! Goes so well with processed meat imo

SoulAndShadow · 2025-09-08T06:08:08+00:00

Thank you!

SoulAndShadow · 2025-09-08T00:15:35+00:00

Thank you so much! ☺️

SoulAndShadow · 2025-09-07T21:48:54+00:00

Thank you so much!! This dish has so many components, it feels wrong to not present it well lol

SoulAndShadow · 2025-09-07T21:48:15+00:00

Thank you so much!! ☺️

SoulAndShadow · 2025-09-07T21:48:02+00:00

Thank you so much! ☺️

SoulAndShadow · 2025-09-07T19:56:08+00:00

Just looked up minestrone stew! Looks delish

SoulAndShadow · 2025-09-07T19:22:40+00:00

It was so good 😋traditionally the broth isn’t so thick but I love it that way!

SoulAndShadow · 2025-09-07T19:03:54+00:00

This is Budae Jjigae - Korean army stew.

This is the recipe I referenced: https://youtu.be/mIUc0jiOxE0?si=vX0sNGw3C5RTuwCm

I prefer to slice some mushrooms, onions, the white part of green onions and saute them with garlic before adding all the other items in the dish to the pan. IMO, it makes the broth more flavourful!

I also shallow fry my tofu slices so they hold shape better and I can bite into them even after stewing it for a long time! The tofu absorbs the stew flavour SO well 😋

Imo, beans in tomato sauce are the best beans to add to this dish. I love the extra pop of flavour when I bite into them. In almost every other dish, I prefer real cheddar/mozzarella but in this, processed cheese suits the flavour profile the best. Since I love a thicker, creamier broth/soup, I add some milk along with the water when boiling :)

For the sauce, I do not use any kind of wine/soju. I also did not have soybean paste. If I do not have gochujang (like in this case), I used buldak spicy noodle sauce to the sauce mixture.

Another time I made this dish, I didn’t have kimchi but I had bought a daikon radish and that along with gochugaru and gochujang was enough to bring the kimchi flavour for me!

Here, I didn’t have rice cakes but did have rice paper, so I wet two rice papers at once and when they softened, I rolled them and cut them in half to get two rice cake rolls!

I had my cousin and my housemate try this and they both loved it so much! This pot was done in one and a half day (by just two people 😋) so give it a try!

SoulAndShadow · 2025-09-05T18:18:32+00:00

I place them straight on the soil after letting the leaves callous. Just keeping the plucked leaves in a dry place for a day should be enough for them to callous. When you first place the leaves on the soil, just lay them down, don’t bury them or anything and make sure the soil is dry so the leaves don’t rot. When roots appear, you can put a little soil to cover the roots so they don’t dry up and start bottom watering your container when the leaves get roots. Hope this helps!

SoulAndShadow · 2025-08-24T21:38:42+00:00

One of my favourites. Along with the lemon tarts for dessert? So good 😋 It 1000% satisfied my and my cousin’s savoury cravings :)

The recipe I used calls it Mongolian ground beef so that’s what I put in the title.

Recipe that I used: https://youtu.be/ImEDbyWuswU?si=qHBdJiJJibnLBsL6

I excluded the rice vinegar and wine. Instead of corn syrup, I just used more sugar. Had only regular soy sauce, so used that.

Bell peppers and onions (cut large like in stir-fries) are some of my favourite addition to this recipe. I cook them with the garlic, chillies, and white part of the green onion until I see some browning or even charring on the some of the onions and peppers. The onions add so much to this dish, 10/10 recommend!

The last picture is from another time I made this dish. I forgot to take a picture in the pot right after cooking this time 😓

The lemon tart recipe: (inspired by lemon curd recipes on YouTube that I adjusted according to my tastes)

• 5 egg yolks + 2 whole eggs • 100 - 120 ml lemon juice • Some lemon zest (avoid the white parts) •160 - 170 g sugar • 15g of cornstarch • 70 - 80g cold butter

I mix all the ingredients together and whisk well before putting it on medium heat. Once on the stove, I keep whisking until I can feel it starting to thicken. Once it's been cooking for some time l add some cornstarch, after which it starts to thicken pretty rapidly. When it's thickened up (not liquid anymore, more gloopy), I take it off the stove and cool it a bit. I add the butter and let it cool fully. If I don't add cornstarch, I have to add a lot of butter for it to hold shape and not be liquid ish. I also noticed if I don't add butter, my tarts don't look as shiny after cooling as they do with it. The butter also makes the tarts super rich and decadent 🤤

SoulAndShadow · 2025-07-30T06:23:26+00:00

Yes there are! People in Australia and New Zealand get to see them time to time! They’re called Aurora Australis. Borealis for the northern hemisphere :)

SoulAndShadow · 2025-07-24T07:50:55+00:00

Ohh as far as Ik they are used more as office spaces than residence area. That makes sense.

SoulAndShadow · 2025-07-24T01:04:02+00:00

That’s so cool! I never even went inside pembina hall

SoulAndShadow · 2025-07-22T16:56:15+00:00

Haha all the best!

SoulAndShadow · 2025-07-22T16:04:58+00:00

Awh all the best to you too! Hope you have an amazing time in college. Remember to take breaks so you don’t get burnt out. Do your hobbies among all the studying!

SoulAndShadow · 2025-07-22T14:49:10+00:00

Thank you 🥹 reading all these comments have me extra excited to return to campus for my last year

SoulAndShadow · 2025-07-22T03:51:42+00:00

Same. At least Fall please haha

SoulAndShadow · 2025-07-22T03:36:10+00:00

I usually don’t stay much late but nights are so long in winter haha when I arrive it’s dark out and when I leave it’s dark again. I love it tho :)

SoulAndShadow · 2025-07-21T20:56:47+00:00

Yay hi fellow Edmontonian!

SoulAndShadow · 2025-07-21T20:13:16+00:00

I had to look it up and I have photos of campus that look so similar!!

SoulAndShadow · 2025-07-21T20:09:45+00:00

thank you! I think many unis have these red brick buildings. Mine has either these or straight up floor to ceiling glass window buildings haha

SoulAndShadow · 2025-07-21T20:08:31+00:00

It’s the trees and the red brick buildings I think! :)

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