Oh! Yes, please!

Normally, I am one of the most terrible decision makers. Simple things like ordering food at restaurants or choosing products at the supermarket could be very difficult and time-consuming for me. However, there is one thing I'm defintely sure of. That is I would never say no to Champagne. I can say, without a moment of hesitation, it is my favourite drink. It turns out that I have Champagne tastes and beer income as Rob often says. Sad reality but I can't help but love this bubbly drink so much! Ok, here is a picture of me enjoyoing my lovely Champagne in style. No, not really. Sorry it's just a scanned copy of last Valentine's Day card from Rob. (And yes, I had to twist his arm to get me one.)



A few weeks ago, we had a perfectly legitimate reason to celebrate something with my favourite drink. My friend J had finished her short course successfully. Hooray! Well done, you! So, here is a picture of Rob pouring the Champagne for all of us. I can tell you it was very, very nice.

Sadly, she has gone back to Korea now and I would like to say something to my dearest friend. "Hey, J. Once again, congratulations on your achievement and good luck with your future career! It was so good to have you here with us. We both look forward to seeing you again in Korea hopefully soon."

Friend's visit

J - one of my Korean friends is currently staying with us for a few weeks. We had met each other when we were doing our course at the University here. One of the reasons we became close was that we shared the love of food and the willingness to try new food stuff. For example, she was the only other Korean who liked Marmite apart from me. The main difference between her and me is the size, I guess. Whereas I'm very tall, J is tiny (& cute I may add) and naturally eats only a small amount of food. Unfortunately for me, she now lives in Korea and is only visiting the UK for a couple of months.

Thanks to her, we have been having lots of Korean food recently. Nothing grand or special but just simple dishes. Luckily, this suits fine all three of us. My husband loves Korean food, especially Kimchi or anything spicy. Like most Koreans, my friend seems to prefer Korean diet to western. A lot healthier arguably. Sensible girl! And me? As I said, I am quite happy with any sorts of food and I don't mind cooking either. The only trouble is that I am very very slow and tend to panic if the task looks slightly daunting. As a result, I tend to stick to a handful of recipes I feel comfortable with. Very bad! I know. Good news is that J is a lot quicker and more confident in cooking and with her help, I have been practising some other Korean dishes. I am sure that there will be another handful of Korean recipes in my collection by the end of her stay.

Picture of Kimchi

After my very first post, my husband pointed out that I should have some photographs of Kimchi on this site. I was, of course, fully aware of that myself. The trouble was that I had no pictures of Kimchi nor any Kimchi at home to take a photo of. Luckily I had a chance to have a meal at one of my Korean friends' house the other night. I took my camera with me and took some shots. As I had not told her my ulterior motive, they seemed to look rather too natural without any cosmetic dressing and with poor lighting. But probably the main reason why it did not look great is down to my basic phtographic skills. Anyway, this is KIMCHI (김치), to be precise the CABBAGE KIMCHI (배추김치) and this will do until I could get some decent ones.