19 May 2010

Bibimbap

Recently, several of my cousins and I headed to a Korean restaurant in a Dallas suburb. Much of my family has lived in various regions of Asia at one time or another and this particular evening, all of us were craving a taste of the Orient. I had the Bibimbap, which is a mixed rice dish of vegetables and beef, though some people use chicken. It is usually topped off with a raw egg, which I gladly passed along to my younger cousin, since pregnancy and raw eggs simply don't mix. Bibimbap happens to be a favorite of actress, Gwyneth Paltrow, who shows us how to "mix things up" with this Korean dish using brown rice and poultry- javascript:void(0)