Making Kimchi

If you like Korean food, and you haven't been to maangchi.com yet, do your self a favor and take a look.  Maangchi has great recipes for all kinds of Korean food.  I've tried several, and they've all been good so far.  Today, I decided to try making some kimchi!  I made mak kimchi (the kind that is cut into pieces vs. whole cabbage.  It turned out pretty well.  Here are some pictures from my attempt:

First, I salted the Nappa cabbage.

Next, I made the sweet rice porridge:

Then, I made the sauce and mixed in the rice porridge:

After that, I chopped the veggies:

Next, I mixed the sauce and veggies:

Then, I rinsed the cabbage:

Finally, I mixed it all up!

And ate some for dinner, yum!

We even had some boongabang (뿡아빵) for dessert!

The kimchi turned out well.  However, make sure not to put in more onion than Maangchi advises.  I found out the hard way that too much onion will make the kimchi a little bitter.

Here's here recipe; I omitted the squid.  Delicious!