Halloween Day/万圣节/할로윈 데이

Harvested the pumpkin and carved the eyes and nose in triangle shape, lighted up the candle! Happy Halloween Day , my dear friends~~

Perilla/紫苏/깻잎

Dear friends, share with you the perilla trees from my garden~~
亲爱的朋友们，与您分享院子里的紫苏叶~~
The recipe for making pickle is available at http://kkimchi88.blogspot.com/…/kkaen-nip-jang-jji-perilla-…

Jujube/红枣/대추

Dear friends, here are some of the jujubes at the front front yard of my house~~

亲爱的朋友们， 与您分享院子里的红枣~~

Red pepper powder/辣椒粉/고춧가루

Harvested the red peppers ,dehydrated and ground the peppers, here are are homemade red pepper powder~~

采下红辣椒，风干，磨成粉，做成了辣椒粉~~

"Chuseok"/中秋节/추석

"Chuseok"/中秋节/추석

즐겁고 행복 가득한 추석 보내세요~~

15th of August in lunar calendar, is the Thanks Giving Day in Korea, we call it "Chuseok". Happy Chuseok for all my friends~~

一年复一年，又是共庆中秋佳节的时刻，祝贺大家“佳节愉快”

" Chusok/추석/秋夕" or Korean Thanksgiving Day, one of the biggest national holidays of the year。 For centuries, it has been common to see an entire Korean family sitting around kneading " songpyeon"( a form of tteok or rice cake) while chatting happily,just one or two days before celebrating this holiday.

"Songpyeon/송편/松糕“ is a stuffed "tteok". Depending on the region, some places use potato or sweet potato starch to make songpyeon instead of rice grains. the ingredients used  to stuff the songpyeon also vary from family to family. Some put red beans,chestnut,jujube or sesame seeds.

There are stories that have passed from generation to generation about the making of songpyeon  :

For the mum or grandma， will tell the grand daughter,  " you  will get a beautiful child if you makes the songpyeon in beautiful shape".

For the unmarried, they can find a beautiful wife or a handsome husband when the songpyeon they make has a beautiful shape......

华族赏月饼过中秋，韩族则吃松饼/songpyeon庆“秋夕”（韩国人称中秋节为 “秋夕”/Chusok/추석)，这是一年内最大的节日之一。历经了多少个世纪，依旧可以见到韩国人，在“秋夕”的前一日或二日，家庭的成员们都会围绕的坐在一起，一边做松饼，必变谈笑风生。

"Songpyeon/송편/松糕“是米糕的一种。依地区而异，有些地区的居民用马玲薯粉或蕃薯粉做面团，一般上的家庭都用米粉。 内陷也有差异，有些是用红豆，栗子，红枣或芝麻。

一代传一代，流传了有关“松饼”的故事：老一辈的妇人家，都会对晚辈女儿家说 ”手儿巧，搓个美松饼，将来好生个漂亮的娃娃 “。

对于未婚者，若搓个美松饼，将来会娶个漂亮的媳妇；或嫁个英俊潇洒的郎君。。。

One of the major foods prepared and eaten during the Chuseok holiday is songpyeon (송편; 松편),a Korean traditional rice cake which contains stuffing made with ingredients such as sesame seeds, black beans, mung beans, cinnamon, pine nut, walnut, chestnut, jujube, and honey. When making songpyeon, steaming them over a layer of pine-needles is critical. The word song in songpyeon means a pine tree in Korean. The pine needles not only contribute to songpyeon's aromatic fragrance, but also its beauty and taste

Songpyeon is also significant because of the meaning contained in its shape. Songpyeon's rice skin itself resembles the shape of a full moon, but once it wraps the stuffing, its shape resembles the half-moon. Since the Three Kingdoms era in Korean history, a Korean legend stated that these two shapes ruled the destinies of the two greatest rival kingdoms, Baekje and Silla. During the era of King Uija of Baekje, an encrypted phrase, "Baekje is full-moon and Silla is half moon" was found on a turtle's back and it predicted the fall of the Baekje and the rise of the Silla. The prophecy came true when Silla defeated Baekje in their war. Ever since, Koreans started to refer to a half-moon shape as the indicator of the bright future or victory. Therefore, during Chuseok, families gather together and eat half-moon-shaped Songpyeon under the full moon, wishing themselves a brighter future.
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(source:wikipedia)

"Kko Mak Bibimbin Bab"/血蚶拌饭/꼬막비빔밥

Dear friends, I believe that many of you like the Korean bibimbin bab,have you ever tasted the "Kko Mak Bibimbin Bab/Blood clam bibimbin bab"?
In Korean,  꼬막 " Kko Mak " is Blood Cockle or Blood Clam. The blood cockle is the main  variety raised in  , in Jeollanam Do Province전라남도. 

Tegillarca granosa (also known as Anadara granosa) is a species of ark clam known as the blood cockle or blood clam due to the red haemoglobin liquid inside the soft tissues. 

在韩文，꼬막 " Kko Mak "是 “血蚶”（Blood cockle， blood clam）。位于韩国全罗南道的별교읍 (Beolgyo-eup , 筏橋邑）是盛产血蚶的地方。
泥蚶（Tegillarca granosa, Anadara granosa），又名“血蚶”（Blood cockle），英文俗称Ark shell
(source: wikipedia)

亲爱的朋友们，我相信很多的朋友们都喜欢韩式拌饭，您可曾享用过血蚶拌饭？

"Song Yeon( 송연/松莲)Han Jeong Sik"

Dear friends, share with you the the "han jong sik" at the "Song Yeon( 송연/松莲)Han Jeong Sik" restaurant in Cheonan city.
 "Han Jeong Sik", a full -course Korean meal with a varied array of banchan (side dishes).

Korean cuisine is largely based upon rice, vegetables, and meats. Traditional Korean meals are noted for the number of side dishes (banchan) that accompany steam-cooked short-grain rice.Kimchi is served often, sometimes at every meal. Commonly used ingredients include sesame oil,doenjang (fermented bean paste), soy sauce, salt, garlic, ginger, pepper flakes and gochujang(fermented red chili paste).

Ingredients and dishes vary by province. Many regional dishes have become national, and dishes that were once regional have proliferated in different variations across the country.

(source: wikipedia)

"Han Jeong Sik"/韩定食，是韩国传统套餐，含有各种不同种类的小菜（banchan).

韩国料理中多以米食為主食，另有麵食、蕎麥、菜、肉等，除了炊煮熟食的飯之外，另外常伴隨熱湯同食。而冬天，醃製的韓國泡菜是飯桌上常見的配菜，以白菜、萝卜、黃瓜等各食材發酵而成，種類齊全而成為飯饌（반찬）。

佐料方面，多用麻油、醬油、鹽、蒜、薑等，尤其大蒜的食用普遍。

烹調方面，由於受氣候影響，必須依季節而有調整。冬天寒冷農作物不興，蔬菜難以生長時必須仰賴泡菜、水泡菜、醬瓜等傳統醃製菜，這些醃製菜通常在入冬前被佐以鹽巴、辣椒等塗抹再放在大甕中存放，現代後有些醃製品改用玻璃罐擺在屋內。(source: wikipedia)