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[Forbidden-Donut]

After a few months of eating out for every meal, I've decided its time to start cooking for myself. I need some ideas. What are your favorite dishes that you make here?

[semi-fly]

Sorry to sound silly, but why do you need suggestions for what to cook? I mean cook whatever you cooked back home, some ingredients might be harder to come by (depending on your taste) but it's not rocket science.

[rednblack]

Like Semi-fly said, "cook what you would at home".

During the week my wife cooks Korean food, and I cook western food during the weekend.

Including:

various hambugers (cheese, egg, beetroot, chow, steak)
lasagna (with potato salad and garlic bread)
cottage pie
beef stew
roasts (chicken, beef, pork)
stovies
bacon and egg pie
tortillas
steak, eggs, and chips
toasted sandwiches
pizza
stir-fries
potato/vege bakes

No hardship my friend. Get yourself an oven (less than 140,000w for a small one}, and you are away.

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

My fave would have to be Thai lamb red curry, all ingredients available from the Asian Mart in Itaewon

[ciccone_youth]

I only cook easy meals:

-salads w/ grilled chicken and vegetables
-tuna salad, or tuna melts
-grilled cheese sandwiches
-pasta
-soups
-turkey burgers

[sojourner1]

My favorite would have to be lasagna with all the cheeses, but I can't find the stuff to make that. I'm doing pizza with pepperoni Emart sells which is dam good Australian variety.

And kebabs on the BBQ grill. Meat chunks, onion, peppers, pinapple, and cherry tomatoes put on skewers after marinating in Worcestershire sauce has to be one of my favorite foodgasms.

[Easter Clark]

떡볶이

김치 볶음밥

Omu-rice

Grilled ham and cheese sandwiches

돼지 갈비

Pasta

Chicken fajitas

[poet13]

Costco pesto isn't bad, and at 14000 a tub, it gives 3 of us 4 or 5 meals.

You can also buy the thinly sliced pork at the supermarket, marinate it in a drop of sesame oil, soy and some minced chile. Fry it very hot, all spread out and slap it into a toasted baguette with a couple of processed cheese (or monterey jack) slices that melt quickly, and you have a real gut buster of a sandwich. You can throw in tomato slices too, or greens.

Buy a package of chicken breasts. Lean meat is much cheaper than fatty in this country (Gotta love that!). Go online. Marinate them (or just one at a time) in soemthing you like. Citrus, vinegar, wine, spice, herb, etc. Fry it off two or three minutes on each side. Take it off the heat, put it in a small bowl but not sticking up out of the bowl, and immediately cover it with platic wrap. Let it cool completely. Take it out, slice it thinly on the bias (instead of cutting straight down into it, turn the SHARP knife blade about 45 degrees. By covering it, it finishes cooking. By letting it cool, you keep the juices inside.
Use the sliced chicken breast in past, salad, sandwich, even soup...

[cruisemonkey]

Roast chicken
Roast beef
Roast pork
Beef stew
Macaroni & cheese (real, old cheddar cheese)
Clam chowder
Minestrone
Chicken soup
Ham & eggs with fried potatos
Spaghetti
Lasagna

[VanIslander]

I do the following every month as fav default options when nothing else grabs me:

chicken paprikash with dumplings
tuna casserole
steak with onions, garlic and bell peppers
stuffed green peppers
spaghetti and meat sauce with fresh tomatoes
beef vegetable stirfry
omelettes

[cruisemonkey]

[Czarjorge]

I've only been in Korea for a week, and I haven't made any friends yet so I haven't been eating out as I hate eating at restaurants alone. I've been using the rice cooker to make rice then adding various things to it. Last night I put this vingared pepper stuff, kind of like red pepper ketchup, in with some fake crab and mixed it up then ate it with nori/seaweed. It was tasty.

I have no idea what I'm going to cook here as I have no oven. Hopefully I won't get too tired of rice too soon.

[EricaSmile84]

Vegetable soup
Fried rice
Stir-fry
Potato Pancakes
Jalapeno poppers

[bangbayed]

[rayjoy]

Actually, Semi-Fly and others, I've found cooking the way I did at home costly and in some cases impossible. I've had a tough time find things to make that aren't very expensive and/or have all the ingredients here. And I'm vegetarian. And I don't have an oven. And I don't like to "cook" I like foods that take little more than boiling water.

In a month I've managed these few things:
Salads - They've got prewashed lettuce for lettuce wraps--just eat it as salad
Pasta - I've found some good Italian ones in the foreign food aisle as well as some creamy pastas in the frozen food section
Fake Meats - Not at all like at home, but I've found "High Protein Soybeans" at Emart that come in various flavors. Sweet & Sour is great.
Ramen - You can make "Poor man's mac 'n' cheese" by putting cheese in it. I ate it that way at home and my boyfriend thought it was disgusting. Now he loves it.
Mandu is good, it's hard finding vegetarian kind but it's really easy to make.
Omelets - Now that I can find bell peppers and tomatoes, they've been awesome.
Curry - So easy, just boil the bag in water and put over rice.

My friend recommended a lot of the premade soups, which I haven't explored yet.

I have no clue how to cook Korean food that isn't frozen and comes with picture directions on the back of the package.