Boonie Baker Blues

Hello! My name is Amy and I live in the boonies of Korea. I love to cook, eat, bake, and … eat… Haha…

If you aren’t from the midwest of the States, “boonies” might be a foreign concept but at home it simply means the rural area of any given state/province. Since I originate in the boonies of Wisconsin… I’ve adapted pretty well (or so I think!) to the boonies of Korea.

Because I love to bake, I’ve devised some methods of dealing with a toaster oven and given the holiday season, I wanted to share some tips and tricks to baking and cooking in general while living out in the boonies of Korea.

These are some pictures of cookies I’ve baked for the holiday season. Christmas is fast approaching and if you’re interested in dusting off that toaster oven that you didn’t know what to do with, check out my blog for the recipes, tips, and tricks to baking!!

The classic sugar cookies!! (yes, these are actually possible to make with a simple toaster oven!)

I hosted a chocolate-chip cookie baking lesson at my apartment for the lady teachers. This was the delicious result:

Linzer cookies! See my blog for the story on these lovely beauties!

My blog is here: http://navigatingcultures.blogspot.com

I hope to add much more that will help those of you who find yourself hours from civilization and still with a hunger to enjoy the good things in life!

About the Author

Daniel

Daniel Gray is a Korean adoptee that returned to Korean in 2005 because he wanted to try and find his birth mother and to learn about Korean culture. He started a restaurant review blog in 2007, www.seouleats.com, that became a local and international hit. He and his blog has been featured in the New York Times, Monocle Magazine, The Kimchi Chronicles, Bizarre Foods, Rudy Maxa, Olive Magazine, Euronews and much more. He now is a partner at O’ngo Food Communications (www.ongofood.com), which is a culinary tourism and consulting company that offers Korean cooking classes and restaurant tours to travelers. Their food tours and cooking classes are ranked as one of the top attractions in Seoul according to tripadvisor.