Really Joyful and Positive Food

Pictures of my meals from the past week. 

Snail, snail broth, salad with peppers, tomatoes and cucumber so fresh it doesn't need dressing, side dishes of pickled onion in soysauce, gatkimchi, and seubogi kimchi. 

Snails, with rice, and a salad consisting of  cucumber just harvest from the garden, green and red gochu peppers, and bell peppers. 

Snails, served with rice, cabbage kimchi, snail broth, a salad of wild garlic shoots, tomatoes, peppers,and whatever else we picked that day.  

Snails, served with rice with a runny egg on top, seobogi kimchi, snail broth, and perrilla kimchi. 

Do you notice some themes? The foods we are eating are variations of the local ingredients here cooked and served in a Korean style.

The variety  for protein and other things  will be limited when everything is local except for the rice.  There is not a lot of beef and pork to be had here.  That's what it is to eat organic and local though. Still I have eaten some of my best meals in Korean because they ingredients have been soo fresh and delicious. 

Some we pick ourselves and others we are given to by farmers in the area. 

JH picking chamwe with me to eat before we weed the bean field. In this heat, eating a lot of fruit keeps us happy and strong. 

Or caught. Catching snails is easy! And twice this week we have snorkeled for snails which is so much fun. Their little bodies hug the rocks of the coast and we scoop them up in the shallow waters. It was soo much fun. 

 Learning how to cook the local ingredients is just as important as local ingredients. There is a bitter taste that I've learned to remove for Y's taste.

Here are some highlights for me. 

A dipping sauce to go with the pajeon below. 

Wild Garlic and fresh from the garden pepper pancake which I made today on my day off for something a little more indulgent. 

Soft boiled egg on rice. My tribute to J of culinary linguist. She likes runny eggs.

Mango from the garden that was a bit overripe and eating in our hands. 

JH makes Korean food but the farm needs help to develop healing foods that are delicious  for westerners too!


Everytime I eat the organic food here I feel so much positive energy. I want to share this.
Earth Elements my intensive hobby is going to be developing recipes for the farm to use that are delicious.  Since I try to take a fast food and make it healthy it makes sense to use the local peanuts to make a peanut butter recipe first. 

local specialty: Cold soup with raw fish. In this case squid.  오징어  물회

All together we are eating corn, watermelons, chamwe, wild vegetables, peppers, peanuts, squid, snails.  Our challenge is to create variety for eat item and change a little. Actually, its not that hard when you have to do it. Next week we might get eggs and some butter from happy animals to make some western stylized foods.

I'm really excited to develop great healing foods for people to make stronger bodies. However, it's not just food but also a lifestyle in which people can remove stress and nergative energy. Being on the farm and following a schedule of meditation and gumdo before I start the day clears my mind and I feel positive. That's important too. 

JH and I chucking corn for meals in the field and taking the beards of to make corn beard tea. 

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