the little stone

This tea is magical. Whenever I feel a cold coming on, I drink a cup or two of this tea and the next morning, I feel significantly better and refreshed. It’s really easy to make. You just have to make sure you add enough ginger. The ginger is what gives that healing zing to the…

This will be the last recipe for the first installment of the Omma’s House series! The series will return at the onset of fall, and I’ll share some of my mom’s soup recipes with you all! My mom calls this easy kimchi because the process entails chopping the cabbage before mixing in the sauce and…

Keeping it simple for this week’s recipe! Next week will be the last recipe for the first installment of the Omma’s House series. The series will return at the onset of fall, and I’ll share some of my mom’s soup recipes with you all! Back to this week’s recipe. You may have seen these egg…

My mom has been cooking this side dish a lot over the past couple of years because it’s become one of my favorites! It’s key to use dried mushrooms, not fresh. Once rejuvenated with water, the dried ones have a meaty, chewy texture to them that the fresh ones lack. My mom usually cooks the…

Kickoff dish for Omma’s House series is cucumber kimchi! If you want to know why I started this series, check out this post. My mom, like many Koreans, doesn’t measure her ingredients, so we played everything by eye and tried our best to estimate amounts. Ingredients: Salt (2-3 tablespoons) Korean cucumbers (We used 8 and…

12 salmon rolls for under $30?? Sounds too good to be true, but it totally is true if you make your rolls at home! The trick is to get the sashimi from a Korean supermarket. I bought .81 lbs of salmon for $13.76. This could’ve made 12 rolls!! (I only made 11.) This is the…