We leave today to fly home to Doha. I am ready to go back. We had a great time seeing friends and family and enjoying all the wonderfulness and convenience of being in the USA, but God is faithful and has prepared our hearts to want to return to Doha.
This weekend we got to spend time with my husband's sister and brother and niece and nephew. My kids had a great time with their cousins. Our nephew was born the day before our eldest and they always have a lot of fun playing together. We had a wonderful time just hanging out and watching endless Olympics, cheering for the Americans, the Ethiopians, the Koreans, and the Chinese.
Yesterday, we ate lunch at a local Korean restaurant to celebrate hubby's sister's birthday. If you haven't ever eaten Korean food, it is definitely a yummy experience. You cook your own meat on grills on the table. The kids were old enough to cook for themselves, which was a first. We usually get bulgogi and galbi. Bulgogi is thinly, sliced marinated beef and kalbi is short ribs. It is served with rice, of course and a bunch of little bowls of side dishes. Kimchee is another main dish on the Korean menu. It is basically fermented spicy (red pepper) cabbage. I really don't like it very much, but there are other varieties that I do like that aren't fermented, cucumber kimchee and white kimchee. My youngest loves sushi and he is eating a Korean sushi like roll called kim bap. We usually have to order a side of fries for our eldest whenever we eat anything unusual, but he loves bulgogi. In fact we had to order more, that's how much they love it.
One day, I will put my mother-in-law's recipe for bugogi on here, so you can try it at home. In the meantime, here is a recipe for it that I found online. When we make it at home we cook it in a frying pan in a little sesame oil. You can wrap it in lettuce leaves with rice and shredded veggies, but normally we just eat it with rice.
