Yesterday was the end of our juice fasting and starting today we are going to introduce food into our stomach, fruits and vegetable soup.

So when my husband and I shopped at Lotte Super tonight, we bought our weekly supplies fruits, vegetables and few other items that we need to make soup, when we arrived home we started to make soup. Yes we cooked together and here’s our simple vegetable soup.

Our ingredients are carrots, corn, zucchini, bakchoi, onions, garlic and vegetable soup powder, and water.  We sauteed the onion and garlic in olive oil then we add the vegetables and mixed them together. Afterwards we add water and the vegetable soup powder. When the carrots are soft enough I dropped the bakchoi and let it boil until it was cooked.

You know when you don’t eat food for a long time it makes you very hungry, so I had four bowls of soup. It was so yummy that it does not last long, we made soup for tomorrow morning but sad to say nothing is left. Lol!

I am not sure but that’s how it looks like to me, I’ve seen two middle school student carrying this cup while I am going to the Nonghyup Supermarket few weeks ago.  It’s new to me so after I bought the items I need I went to the freezer and check what’s new, I didn’t waste my time to try this thinking it is a new flavor of ice cream.

 But I was wrong, its like halo-halo in Philippine, a popular Filipino dessert that is a mixture of shaved ice and evaporated milk to which are added various boiled sweet beans and fruits, and served in a tall glass or bowl. The difference this cold snack consist only red beans, ice and sugar. It seems Korean love read bean so much because it is always included in any bread or snacks.

There are times I am already bored of eating just fried pork and when those time strikes the experimental being on me  strikes too.   This is just one of my special recipe (lol) I fried the pork and when it is already a little brown I dropped chopped Kimch with its sauce., I mixed the kimchi with the pork and continue to fry them.

So here’s the result a yummy salty pork from Kimchi Sauce. Best serve with bowl of rice.

Well like me,  my husband also sometimes experiment on his food like this one, dunno what should I call this. I just called it Nappa Chicken Rolls, because it composed of nappa cabbage, chicken breast, rice and chilli sauce. To prepare very easy just drop cooked (fried or boiled)  chicken and rice top with chilli sauce in nappa leaves, roll it and ready to it.

Today is public holiday here in Korea to commemorates  Gaecheonjeol  or National Foundation Day in English . This holiday celebrates the creation of the state of Gojoseon (ancient Korea) founded by Dangun Wanggeom in the year 2333 BC.

I don’t know that is holiday today when I wake up I am startled why my husband is still sleeping when he has a work in few minutes, so I asked if he has no class. He chuckled while saying I’ve been here for a long time and I don’t know the public holidays are.,

Anyway tonight when I went to throw the garbage bag I’ve seen this big stuff toy, it is still okay just kind of dirty. I think a little kid owns this as there’s a lot of brown spots which I believe from chocolates.  Just washed this and it will looks brand new, dunno who’s going to be the lucky owner, I can’t pick it up because it is too big for a box to Philippines.

Anyway the origin of the holiday, Gaecheon refers to 3 October B.C. 2457, the date when Hwanung  descended from heaven to live with mankind. The harvest ceremony was celebrated in each Korean kingdoms; Yeonggo of Buyeo, Mucheon  of Yemaek, Gyeeum  of Mahan and Byeonhan, Dongmaeng  of Goguryeo, Palgwanheoi  of Silla.

In 1909, Gaecheonjeol was enacted as a national holiday.The festival is held annually. At first, Gaecheonjeol had been celebrated on 3 october on lunar calendar but it has been celebrated on 3 october on solar calendar since 1949.

This is my own version of Afritada, if you have read my blog about the green peas that I bought for 5,000 won  instead  of 3,000 won this is how I cooked  it. As tomato ketchup is not present on our kitchen I just used fresh tomatoes we still have three pieces of tomatoes in the fridge that time.

Anyway this are my ingredients:

• Meat (Pork), Potatoes, Green Peas, Tomatoes, Vineger, Salt, Water, Pepper, Onions and Garlic

My Procedure:

1.  I first boiled the pork in  cup of water and vinegar then I removed the pork from the soup
2. In a clean pan/skillet I saute onion and garlic, when it is brown I added the sliced tomatoes
3. Afterwards when the tomatoes are partially cooked I added the pork, mixed it and cooked it for few minutes
4. Then I add the soup where I boiled the pork, I simmer for few minutes and I added more water
5. To taste I added salt and pepper
6. When it is starting to boil I add the green peas and lastly the potato and let it cooked until its ready

Well that’s how I cooked my own version of Afritada though it looks like Mechado because of the green peas, haha. It is so yummy and I am craving for this food now. You should try to experiment in your food, on the available ingredients you have in your kitchen. You maybe never know what does it taste like unless you cook it.

We went to Seolbang Park last night just to look around, just too bad that we didn’t go during day time and we missed the performance for the celebration of Ceramic Festival. So all I got to do is pose in the board where the performance schedule is posted.

According to what I read online the 25th Icheon Ceramic Festival, the nation’s representative event for ceramic arts, is scheduled from September 24th to October 23rd at Seolbong Park in Icheon, Gyeonggi-do Province under the theme of ‘Journey From Fire’.

The visitors will have a chance to turn the spinning wheel and make their own pottery under the guidance of a professional potter, paint pottery, and make traditional ceramic toys. In addition, the festival will feature a clay crafts and experience center for children, as well as various ceramic exhibitions.

Admission is free.

Mini-store here in Korea are enormous, 24 hours store exactly like Seven/Eleven. In every corner you can find them you are not going to be lost because they are well lighted.  So when you are hungry in the middle of the night all you need to do is run the nearest GS25, Family Mart, Seven/Eleven and so on., they cost $2-3 per instant meal it depends in the food.

This is one of my late meal from GS25 bulgogi, quail eggs, fish cake, kimchi and rice. Just heat in the microwave over and ready to eat.

This is another version of the food I have blogged few days ago the ground pork with barbecue sauce, the difference is this food has eggs, dunno what should I call this. Torta maybe,  I have two bags of ground pork that time and I cooked it on the same time as it is going to expire soon and in order not to feel tired eating ground pork I cooked it in different presentation.

This is also ground pork cooked with barbecue sauce and onions plus egg.

I am quite busy these past few days both online and offline. Instead of going to the gym every night my husband and I decided to take a walk.  So every night if we are not in the gym we are walking around Icheon, and it is a good thing because we discover more place, store and establishment around us like this big Nonghyup Supermarket which already looks like a mall.

We went inside and bought few items like noodles, beets and mouth wash.  As we would like to buy more we can’t because this supermarket is quite too far from our place and we are in diet, we don’t need much aside from vegetables and fruits. I think this is the main hub of Noghyup Supermarket near our place.