Cravings satisfied!
"My mind exclaimed for happiness as I finally satisfy my hunger."
Last Sunday, while scrolling on my phone, I'm a bit starving due to taking care of my children, household chores, and thinking about what could be our viand for dinner. Coincidence it may sound, I have available lettuce and bottle gourd and what's lacking is protein. My mind thinks of a Samgyupsal! Let's see what we can do.
Meanwhile, before the crime of thinking began, I bought a bottle gourd around somewhere in Tabogon. It just happen that we passed by this mini store selling vegetables available in their garden. It weighs 2 kilograms and paid for 50 pesos only.
As I get the vegetable, I keep on asking the store owner. Hehe
Let's get the bottle gourd begin!馃榿
I will make this as a side dish of my Samgyupsal.
First, peeling bottle gourd is a necessity. Cut them into two to easily cut flesh.
It has a lot of seeds. It cannot be eaten, then I keep it so I can sow it when the time comes.
It has sturdy skin that it's impossible to eat or cook. I just throw it properly.
Its soft and white flesh is so easy to cut. Its strong outer serves as protection to its soft inner. How amazing.
Let's start cooking
Prepare the pan and preheat the oil. Then join the minced garlic until it turns brown. It's good to add onion, but I don't have it available.
Put the bottle gourd flesh. Season with salt and pepper then soy sauce. Cover.
Need not put water because it produces water already.
Now, it's done!
Bought 1 kilo of stripped pork. I purposely want this so I would feel like I'm in a Korean restaurant馃. Its belly part brings more oil and no bones. Its thinly sliced looked more delicious when it is cooked. Before laying it on the pan, I drizzle it with salt only.
No Korean grilled pan? No problem! I only use my historical pan馃榿. Preheated the pan and put directly the thinly sliced pork. I did not put oil since pork will produce soon.
Almost cooked!
My available lettuce at home. Properly washed and shred.
Wow! Seems like a real Samgyup huh?
Cutting the cooked pork would be easy for us to eat.
Let's eat! This preparation is for two! While cooking I've done multi-tasking which is I let my kids eat and while blogging. Wait what? Hehe
Zoom in, Zoom out馃い
As I saw from another diner, they pick a sheet of lettuce then wrap it with pork or with other side dishes available then get it in their mouth. That's what I do this time, made me realize that I can do it at home. No need for me to travel far. However, the disadvantage is there are some dishes to wash! Haha.
Well, anyway I enjoyed doing it at home and I can do whatever I want to my leftovers unlike "unli restaurants" that they let the diner pay for their leftovers and then weigh them according to grams, and the experience I have is worth keeping.
That's all for today's foodie blog Hivers! See you next time 馃.