Being a father means that I have to be a chef/nutritionist/entertainer. Of course I would love to feed them all veggies and healthy stuff but sometimes you just have to get fuel into the tank. The Yakut yogurt is a staple...sigh. I have made my own organic yogurt drinks for the kids but it went to waste. The macaroons are for color and the grilled cheese is cut kid size. The cheese is organic so I guess that is ok. At least they ate it all and later I snuck veggies into their rice and soup. Afterwards Hazel and I played a game of chess and she is starting to understand the rules.  #chess #dadslife #afterschool #cookingforkids #seouleats #koreafood #love #instagood #beautiful #food #korea #instafood #instatravel #travelgram  #goodeats #foodblogger #푸드스타그램 #맛스타그램 #맛있어 #좋아요 #냠냠 #데일리 #맞팔 #데일리 #맛있다 #먹스타그램

Hello Interwebs, I know. It's been a while. Sorry, but I have these things called kids and blogging and dining out at nice places just don't mix. Yeah, I'm the guy trying to hold one kid while feed the other while the wife cleans up some spill or another from one or the other kids. It's fun and chaos. I don't know how my parents did it. My parents were great and they raised us well and they talk us all the right things, they were principled and patient. We got into arguments but mainly because my sisters and I were just jerks. When I found out I was going to be a parent, my wife and I talked and set rules and thought out how we would raise them. We were going to read them books, play classical music, travel with them, cook all their meals and all that other stuff. We tried all that but at the end of the day, we just got by doing what we could. You get into a pattern of survival. A book could keep a kid entertained for about 15 minutes and then they migh...

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Cute Kids Once a month I volunteer at a halfway house for Korean children. This isn't an orphanage, but a place where the kids are supposed to stay temporarily until their parents come back to get them. However, some of these kids have been here for about a year. If the parent's decide not to get them, then they will go to a real orphanage where other options are considered including adoption. Don't you just want to take him home? May 5th is Children's Day in Korea and it's a day where most kids wait in bated anticipation for. Most kids get presents and then spend the day with their parents going to amusement parks, zoos, or movies. These kids won't have that opportunity so it is a very sad and depressing day for them. This year we'll be going to the orphanage on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 at 10am to cook lunch for these kids and to help clean the building. The station is down by Beomgye (Line 4 towards Oido). We'll be cooking Korean barbecue and diff...

Once a month, I volunteer with a group to go to an orphanage to cook lunch for the kids. The kids are super sweet and I really enjoy cooking for them and playing with them. It's also fun to see what kinds of food Korean children like and dislike. This time, we decided to do something a little different. Here it is: the deep-fried, rice-battered hotdog It is sorta like a corndog, but instead of a flour and cornmeal batter, you have rice that has been flavored with bits of carrot and red bell peppers. This rice is packed around the hotdog that has been impaled with a chopstick and rolled in a panko breading before deep fried. Here's a ring of them. It's not bad. It's like fried rice on a stick with a meaty center. The kids loved them. The inventor of this food is my good friend Hoya. You can read her blog (in Korean) at  http://www.hoyacooks.com/ Dan