Egg rice (Gyeranbap: 계란밥)

The recipe I'm showing you today is so simple! It's gyeranbap, or egg rice, a healthy and flavorful light meal you can make in no time at all. It's basically a fried egg and crispy rice, with some soy sauce, sesame oil, and gim (roasted seaweed). This is my upgraded version of a dish all Koreans...

Korean rolled omelette (Gyeran-mari: 계란말이)

This recipe for Korean rolled omelette is very easy, and it's one of the most popular and common dishes for a Korean dosirak (lunchbox). This is because it's easy to make, looks beautiful, goes well with rice, and can last for hours in a lunchbox and still look delicious and fluffy when you open...

Crunchy balloon bread (Gonggal-ppang: 공갈빵)

I'm so excited to introduce today's recipe to you! It's gonggal-ppang, a cookie-like bread that's puffed up like a crunchy, crusty, hollow balloon, with a coating of melted sweet syrup inside. This balloon bread was created by Chinese immigrants in Korea. I was told that the bread was originally...

Korean custard bread (Cream-ppang: 크림빵)

Today's recipe is cream-ppang custard cream filled bread, one of my favorite pastries at any Korean bakery. Since as long as I can remember it's been one of the most popular items in Korean bakeries, along with a sweet red bean-filled bread called danpat-ppang. When I was a kid I used to eat...

Korean sausage bread (Sausage ppang: 소세지빵)

Today's recipe is for Korean sausage-ppang, or sausage bread, which is a hotdog or sausage baked in fresh bread and covered with toppings and cheese. It tastes like sweet pizza with fluffy dough. I don't know who invented this snack but it's very popular and a common item in Korean bakeries in...

Cornbread

Today I'm going to show you how to make a special Korean-style cornbread that I used to have when I was a kid in elementary school in Korea. The school provided this daily snack to the students just before class was dismissed. We looked forward to it every day, so I have fond childhood memories...

Rice cooked in eggshells (Gyeran-kkeopjilbap: 계란껍질밥)

Today I'm going to show you a fun way to cook rice: in a hollowed-out eggshell! It's called gyeran-kkeopjilbap in Korean. My grandmother used to cook rice in a cauldron over a fire. While the rice was simmering my grandmother would grill fish over the embers or just tuck a potato or sweet potato...

Korean salad bread (Salad-ppang: 샐러드빵)

Salad-ppang are fluffy bread rolls filled with Korean potato salad. They are quick to make and totally satisfying - the perfect pick-me-up when you're craving a tasty snack.

Spicy steamed eggs in an earthenware bowl

Today's recipe is spicy steamed eggs in an earthenware bowl, or maeun ttukbaegi gyeranjjim in Korean. I call it a spicy volcano eggs side dish because it's reddish and gets puffed up like a steaming hot volcano! I actually made a traditional steamed eggs recipe and video all the way back in...

Kkotppang: 꽃빵 (Steamed flower-shaped buns)

Let's make kkotppang this time! Kkot is "flower" in Korean and ppang is "bread" or "buns". I love the cute name: kkotppang kkotppang, I can't stop saying it! : ) I first learned about kkotppang when I lived in Columbia, Missouri in the 1990s. Our Korean expat group used to have a potluck...