Friday, October 3, 2008

comfort food

I was feeling run down the other day and my stomach was bothering me so I wanted to make something soothing. When I was young, my mother used to make rice with soy sauce and butter. You just take hot cooked rice, melt butter and add a bit of soy sauce. Or, sometimes she would just melt good ol' kraft cheese on rice(In Korea, that's the only kind of cheese you had). YUM! So simple yet so comforting. I turned on the stove, put some rice and lots of water and let it boil. After about an hour or two, it becomes this mushy semi-white consistency(it's called jook). I scooped some on my bowl, added butter and soy sauce and..................

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