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Bourbon Sauce in a jar next to greenery and a plate of pretzels. A spoon drizzling chocolate sauce back into jar
Desserts, Recipes, Southern Recipes

Chocolate Bourbon Sauce (Boozy Chocolate Sauce)

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Welcome to December! It’s the season to be jolly! Have you started to prepare for the holidays by cooking and baking? This year, I’m starting the holiday season with chocolate bourbon sauce. This sauce is a versatile addition to your holiday cooking–you can use it to top ice cream, dip pretzels, mix with steamed milk to make hot chocolate, and more! 

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Two oysters sitting in the someone's hands
Lifestyle and Culinary Tips

How to Clean Oysters Before Shucking

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Every year, our family would buy fresh local oysters from a store that would get them directly off the boat earlier that day. While they were the freshest oysters you could possibly get, they were not cleaned like those you would find in the grocery store. These oysters had all the bottom mud coated on them. Here, we will go through step-by-step instructions on how to properly clean oysters.

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Rice in triangle kimbap
Lifestyle and Culinary Tips

Korean Rice: Mepssal

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Like many countries in East Asia, traditional South Korean meals predominantly center around a bowl of rice. The significance of rice in Korean food culture cannot be overemphasized or dramatized. Not only is it a daily stable served at most meals, but it is also part of the cultural identity of South Korea stemming from hardships, survival, and social resilience. If you wish to learn about Korean culture, it is important to know about rice. Here, I will write about ‘mepssal,’ the type of rice used most commonly at a Korean dinner table.

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An over heat shot of a Korean grits bowl--grits topped with spinach, kimchi, ground pork, green onions, and sesame
Breakfast, Entrées, Korean Recipes, Recipes, Southern Recipes

Korean Grits Bowl (Southern-Korean Fusion Dish)

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We love making Southern-Korean ‘grits bowls.’ Instead of the usual southern grits topping options such as ‘shrimp & grits’ or ‘breakfast grits,’ we top this Lowcountry southern comfort food with typical Korean flavors. Here, we give a recipe for one of our favorite fusion ‘grits bowls.’ We combine grits with some Korean marinated ground pork, soy sauce sauteed spinach, and friend kimchi! 

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Seaweed sheets sitting in a blue bowl next to chopsticks
Lifestyle and Culinary Tips

Dried Seaweed Sheets Used in Korean Cuisine

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In much of Asia, people use edible dried seaweed sheets in much of their cooking. You may recognize that people use these sheets to make Japanese sushi or Korean kimbap. In America, we often use the Japanese term ‘nori’ to refer to these dried seaweed sheets. That being the case, if you are learning to cook Korean food, you will often see the seaweed referred to as ‘gim’ or ‘kim’ (김) in Korean recipes.

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