I was drooling over pictures of patio furniture set that I saw in the weekly store flyers since one month ago. Unfortunately, husband H & I are not focused people. We went to one store, than another, followed by a series of others. We saw this and liked it. Then we saw the others and kept them on the list also. To make the long story short, we ended up not buying any patio set because of so many pros and cons. However, I'm still determined to persuade H to buy one before the short summer ends. My way: prepare more outdoor dinner so that eventually H will think we really need a decent patio furniture to eat rather than seating in a squeaky white plastic chair..
Outdoor dinner number 1: Korean style barbeque.
Appetizer is tofu & nappa cabbage in soybean sauce & pork broth. The delicate taste gave a balance to later spicy & tasty entrees.
For entree, I made rice & fish cake in spicy sauce. I used chinese style rice cake since I only had it on hand. It will be much better if you can find fresh korean rice cake. The one I used was kinda stale and not as gooey as I wanted it.
We're meat lover. So eventhough the rice cake & soup were actually enough for both of us, I still sliced some beef for bbq. I bought the sauce in the Korean supermaket and it tasted like restaurant if not better.. the only improvement I made was adding more roasted sesame seeds.
Dinner was a huge success. But not so my persuasion strategy. We ended up having indoor bbq with our electric grill because of the rain. Put my thinking cap back on: what's the next outdoor dinner??
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