Salmon-Vegetable Soup

Delicious + healthy:

Building Site

These pictures span about 6 months, and show the beginning of a vast earth-removal project to its near-end.  The speculation is that this building site (in Sanbon, Gyeonggido) will be a new Lotte Mart (kind of like a Super Target in the U.S.), a department store + grocery + parking (probably underground) + maybe a cinema.

And . . . in 2016 . . .

. . . . a Popeye movie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1FNL_iIp5c

Christmas 2015

Snoopy Movie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XmV3zGifOE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1FNL_iIp5c

Article: Chinese Cram Schools/Tests

An interesting read:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/magazine/inside-a-chinese-test-prep-factory.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Carnivorous Plants Video

Here is an interesting time-lapse video about carnivorous plants (I'm going to show it to students next week, so this post is partly a reminder for me . . .)

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/383907/when-plants-attack-a-time-lapse/

Making Soup

Today was a soup-making day, but I went into super-healthy mode; I keep reading about kale as a super food, so, since I found it at E-mart, I decided to add it, plus my other healthy ingredients, some of which you can see here (I am adding, as an after-note, that the ingredients are for 2 large pots of soup):

 I call it 'acorn squash' but it tends to get call 'pumpkin' here

Yes, I do use a lot of garlic; not only is it healthy but I am of the opinion that garlic in Korea is far less potent than garlic in America (one measurement is this: when I handle garlic directly with my fingers in Korea, the smell goes away in an hour or two; when I do the same thing in the U.S., it takes 2-3 days)

I cook the pumpkin/squash in the microwave before adding it to the soup

Kale, spinach. celery, tomatoes . . .

Dried zucchini . . . very nice texture (not mushy like the fresh stuff)

The finished products: chicken soup and salmon soup; tofu (the squeezable tube kind) was added at the end as an ingredient and to help cool the soup down.  (Missing in the pics are the carrots, 2 kinds of mushrooms, sweet potatoes, spices, and  . . . no onions today, because the two I had saved were not in good condition.)