Pine Street Kim chi6/28/2011 Ingredients 1 large head of Napa Cabbage Cut into 2" x 3" pieces 1-1/2 cups shredded daikon (optional - I didn't have any on hand for these photos) 2 cups of garlic chives cut into 3" lengths Kosher salt In a large stainless steel bowl add single layers of cut cabbage. Sprinkle the cabbage with a generous handful of salt so that is is a light coating on the cabbage leaves. Alternate layers of cabbage, daikon, and salt until cabbage and daikon is used up. Set cabbage aside for about 3-4 hours or overnight. Warmer temperature will require less time. After 3 hours, rinse a piece of cabbage and taste. The cabbage should be wilted, taste pleasantly salty and the raw taste should be gone. You will learn the taste to look for. If it still tastes raw, then allow to sit longer. When it tastes right, you are ready to proceed. At this point you can rinse the cabbage, drain, return to the pot and add the cut garlic chives and let it sit for another hour or so. ![]() Kim chi seasonings in blender Seasoning Mix Ginger - 2" piece peeled and cut into rough pieces Garlic - 8 cloves peeled Granular Red Pepper Powder - 1/3 cup Jut - 3/4 tsp. (optional)* 1 cup water In a blender add the Seasoning mix ingredients and blend for about 3-4 minutes. The mixture should have the consistency of oatmeal. Add water if needed. If the pepper powder is not too old, the color of the seasoning mix should have a slight orange tinge. *Jut is brined shrimp sold in jars in Korean stores. It is very salty with a strong fermented smell. You may grow recognize and love the slight seafood undertone in kimchi made with jut. ![]() Mix in the seasonings by hand Taste the rinsed kim chi again and add a bit of salt if necessary and mix. Pour about 3/4 of the blender ground seasoning mix over the cabbage and with your hands (use gloves if you want) mix and slightly squeeze the seasonings into the cabbage. Taste. Add more seasoning if needed. In a clean 2 quart glass jar, press the kimchi into the bottom and the jar. One cabbage head should fit into the jar. Rinse the blender container and stainless steel bowl with a little water and add water to the jar until the water level comes up to about midway point of the jar. Cover the jar with the lid. When is it ready to eat? If you want to have some right away, you can season some with sesame oil, mix and serve. If you want it to ferment quickly, let it sit on the counter. It should be ready in about a day or two. Best to wrap the jar in a plastic bag (to contain the smell) and let it ferment in the refrigerator for 3-4 days. It should reach its peak in about 5 days when it still has a "fresh" quality and hopefully - effervescent bubbles. After it reaches this peak, then it will start to go "stale" and you should finish it rather quickly or use it to cook another dish like kimchi fried ric
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Pine Street Paella6/15/2011 ![]() Pine Street Paella Ingredients:6 Chicken Thighs 18 Large Shrimp Shell on - de-veined 18 - 24 Large manila clams or Mussels (or a combination) 2 - 4 links Chorizo Olive oil 3 cups medium grain rice 1 medium onion chopped 1 sweet red pepper chopped saffron - generous pinch chicken broth or hot water Sliced pimentos capers Kosher salt peas Minced garlic chopped parsley capers Wedges of lemon The quantities aren't exact and the all the ingredients aren't essential. Paella is basically a flavored rice. The essential flavor ingredients are sofrito, saffron and other flavorful ingredients. This rich paella includes chorizo, clams, shrimp, and chicken. Advance Preparation Several hours or the night before: 1. Marinate the chicken by sprinkling with kosher salt and pepper, minced garlic and olive oil. Store in refrigerator bringing it out to the counter about 1 hour before cooking to bring it up to room temperature. 2. I essentially make a camarones al mojo de ajo with the shrimp to make the shrimp very flavorful. Prepare the shrimp by pulling off the legs and deveining. (Note: I use Costco shrimp when available. It is already deveined.) Put the shrimp legs into a medium sauce pan and set aside for steaming the clams. Sprinkle the shrimp with kosher salt and let sit for about 30 minutes or more. Pat dry. Mince 6 cloves of garlic. Heat a saute pan with 2 tablespoons of olive oil and add the garlic and shrimp. Do not crowd the pan. Saute the shrimp until they turn pink and the shell is translucent. Under cook the shrimp as they will finish cooking when added to the rice. Set aside. Begin Cooking about 1-1/2 hours before serving
3. Slice the chorizo on a diagonal. Set a well seasoned wok or paella pan on a medium fire and add 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Saute the chorizo for a few minutes. Continue to saute until there are browned edges to the chorizo. Put sauteed chorizo into a bowl and set aside. 4.Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.4. In the same pan as the chorizo, saute the chicken pieces as the chorizo until browned and set aside. 5. Set the sauce pan with the shrimp legs over high heat and bring to a boil. Add the clams and mussels. Turn the heat down slightly and cover for 1 minute. After one minute check regularly. As soon as the the clams and mussels open, take them out individual and set in another bowl. Continue steaming until all live clams and mussels have opened. Clams and mussel that don't open are dead and should be discarded. Drain any liquid from the opened clams back into the broth and strain the contents to remove any sand and shrimp lets from the liquid using a fine strainer or cheesecloth into another bowl. Add enough hot water or chicken broth make about 2 cups of hot liquid. Add about 6 strands of saffron to the hot broth and set aside. The broth should turn bright yellow and will color the rice. 6. Prepare sofrito: Set pan on the medium fire again and add 3 tablespoons of olive oil. Add minced garlic, chopped onion and chopped sweet red peppers to the pan. Saute gently until the mixture is soft and the onions are translucent. 7. Add the rice and stir occasionally. Take care not to burn the rice. Saute until the rice starts to become chalky. 8. At this time the pan will be very hot. Carefully add the hot saffron broth to the rice and stir. Liquid should cover the rice by about 1/2". Simmer for a minute and nestle the chicken thighs and chorizo slices into the rice in a circular pattern. Cover and cook over low heat for 20 minutes. Check the mixture occasionally and add broth as needed and check the chicken. When the last bits of pink in the center of the chick thigh are starting to fade, add the clams and mussels to the top and sprinkle with the thawed frozen peas and sliced pimentos. Put covered paella pan or wok into the pre-heated oven and cook for another 15 minutes.until the liquid is absorbed to the top of the rice. 9. At this time the rice should be cooked, the peas still bright green, and everything should be hot. Take note of the timing of when everything went in. If something is not cooked to the right degree, then adjust the timing of the addition of that ingredient next time. Uncover, sprinkle with the capers, chopped parsley and serve with wedges of lemon. Note: When properly made the bottom of the pan will have a crust of rice. It should be browned, but not burnt. When it sits at the table, it will soften slightly. Some guests love this part and scrape the bottom to get some. Serves 6 AuthorThe view from San Francisco Archive
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