Stopped by Super 88 Hong Kong Supermarkets last night and picked up the necessary ingredients. The difficulty is that I'm working from the Saveur recipe that's is for making 6 quarts... 6 quarts!? That's a gallon and a half of kimchi! I like kimchi, but not that much... especially when I'm making it for the first time. There are, of course, recipes for 2 quarts of kimchi... a more standard and manageable amount (though still a lot!)... but the Saveur recipe has the most interesting combination of ingredients, with things like asian pear and korean watercress. So I guess I'm going to roughly third the Saveur recipe, while keeping an eye on the proportions from the 2 quart recipes to make sure I'm not totally out of whack... and just wing it I guess.
A pretty unprecedented step for me, so I'm crossing all my fingers.
UPDATE: Realized I didn't grab any vegetarian fish paste, so Anna is going to see if Whole Foods has any today and otherwise it's full speed ahead with the brining tonight.
A pretty unprecedented step for me, so I'm crossing all my fingers.
UPDATE: Realized I didn't grab any vegetarian fish paste, so Anna is going to see if Whole Foods has any today and otherwise it's full speed ahead with the brining tonight.
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