Kimchi

Result – a five year enjoying the serious spice and the seven year old reacting like the clown he is making a funny fuss. After a talented mother convinced her kids to eat my kimchi. Apparently a super food I had wanted to make this since trying it as a 24/7 snack in japan. I watched a youtube demo and gave it my spin. Chop cabbage bite sized and soak in heavily salted water for a few hours. Sauce, half apple and pear, lots of garlic, good amount of ginger, some onion, agave syrup, a little 5-10 grams good sea salt (used instead of fish sauce),  plenty of chili flakes
Put in blender starting with salt and chilli flakes.
Chop a few scallions, green or spring onions (why does this one have three names, surely two is enough names that is) a radish I used a half a diakon, a carrot or two.
Wash cabbage in fresh water well. 3 times.

Mix all together and add sesame seeds and leave to ferment.

I left on kitchen bench for about 6 hours then the fridge for a few days.
Now I just served this tonight to accompany a vegetable stirfry but found some mini burgers in the freezer and thought about the kimchi tacos I want to try in LA and had myself a bbq kimchi slider, then two more. Now I am thinking of making some braised ribs and turning them into paddies, sesame roll, kimchi and braising liquid bbq sauce.

Bbq paddy
Baby back ribs, season well with salt and fresh cracked pepper, into a deep roasting dish. food process, a quarter onion, a thumb of ginger, some chipotle (can in adobe), smoked paprika, rice vinagar, mirin, sake, lime lemon and orange juice, pomegranate too maybe, tomato of some sort…. possible lime leaves, a bay leave, thyme
Cover and cook until falling off bone, leave to cool in liquid. Pick down and press

Bun
It got to be one of those steamed buns – from either Ipuddo or Momofuku
Dunno how to do this….anyone?
Ok the way I can do it, Indian bread…. Maybe a sesame naan

500g flour white and a little wholewheat,  300ml goat milk(buttermilk and baking powder might be good), a pack yeast 7-8 grams

Yeast into warm milk a little manuka honey in here too,

200g thick goats yogurt, a egg, some avocado and flax oil 50ml, miso, black and white sesame seeds.

Mix both into flour. Couple of hours, punch and kneed into 10 to 20
Shape and cook with a blazing castor iron grill pan and hot as you can oven.

This has evolved well away from the mini burger I thought I was making. This going to be, Bbq pork naan with kimchi