Korean Beef Bulgogi and Family Night
We tried a Korean beef bulgogi recipe for dinner this afternoon, which is available online for free and is incredibly easy to make. This would be a great first recipe for someone who didn’t know how to cook so if you’ve been thinking about getting started in the kitchen or on the grill, give this one a go. The entire thing cost less than $5 per person, had less than 600 calories per person, and was delicious with the lettuce and rice we used as wraps. We’ll definitely add this to the virtual recipe box for the future.
The first step of creating the marinade for the Korean beef lettuce wraps was simple and took only a few minutes.
We made Korean Beef Bulgogi and wrapped them in lettuce leaves with rice. They were delicious. Next time, I want to make some of the Korean beef short ribs marinated in plum wine, and maybe a certain noodle dish that caught my eye.
If you want to learn to cook, starting with Korean Beef Bulgogi might not be a bad idea … it’s easy, inexpensive, and great.
It was supposed to be part of a Korean drama night with family (I’ve gotten nearly all of them hooked on them so we schedule a few nights a week where they come over, we make dinner, and hang out catching up on adventures from 6,500 miles away.) Unfortunately, my dad wasn’t feeling well and my mom felt guilty going ahead without him. Instead, everyone sort of did their own thing, which was still a lot of fun. My youngest sister came over and is cracking up as she watches Season 4 of RuPaul’s Drag Race in the living room after someone said something about it at college (the uncontrollable laughing coming from that area is making me lose it because it’s contagious). She brought over a video game she wants me to play called Ace Attorney. I have no idea what to expect but she loves the series. You’re a defense attorney and have to find evidence to win cases in court.
My brother and sister-in-law went over their Berkshire Hathaway discount order for a home renovation project with me as I played Civilization on the MacBook at the kitchen counter. I’ve managed to play a game as Egypt, Morocco, and Poland to refine my strategy, which needs work. I excel at small, focused empires and have a very high win rate when using them but can’t seem to build spread empires. I’m too much of a perfectionist and I want every city to be flawless, which you can’t do. This is not SimCity. The objective is victory, not the well-being of my people. Overcoming my own bias towards magnanimity is proving to be difficult.
I have to stop by Omaha tomorrow to finalize some orders and maybe do some shopping while the discount prices are in effect at Borsheim’s and Nebraska Furniture Mart. This next week or two is going to be a bit tight because we have a lot that needs to be completed before we fly out to California.
Reader Comments (4)
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innerscorecard
May 4, 2014
No thought of going to the shareholders' meeting this year?
Joshua Kennon
May 4, 2014
Replying to innerscorecard
The meeting itself? Nope. I swing by for the discounts at this stage in life. I saw your message from inside Nebraska Furniture Mart when I checked my site on the Samsung Tablets, and am now a couple of blocks from Borsheim's . The meeting itself is monstrously large and I don't get anything from it I can't from the 10K and annual report. The question and answer session are available through live blog transcripts and most of that isn't useful to me as they are mostly broad, general exchanges about discount rates or monetary policy or whatever other topic someone doesn't understand. I wish they had a separate meeting for the analysts or financially inclined. I'd much rather go to a panel where the BNSF executives are discussing freight tonnage, the retail group heads are answering questions about sales per square foot and inventory turns, and the energy folks are giving their opinion on the sustainability of natural gas prices and what that means for the industry. The whole thing has turned into a cult of personality that puts the businesses secondary when it is the businesses that interest me most. It makes me extremely uncomfortable. The last time Aaron and I attended, we looked at each other in disbelief ... that level of irrational adulation is unseemly. I don't understand why people behave that way or the whole celebrity culture in general. They're clearly getting something out of it that I'm not, so more power to them. It's been almost a decade since I attended regularly.
innerscorecard
May 5, 2014
Replying to Joshua Kennon
Buffett seems to love the attention, just like Schroeder said in the Snowball.
Kevin
May 5, 2014
Mmm bulgogi... There's also a Japanese Ace Attorney movie, which is quite possibly the best videogame based movie ever made. Not saying much, but still. It is very funny, and I've never even played the game.