Weekly Obsessions, part 48 – manchego, Kubo and shorter leash

Last week was all kinds of colorful, in both smaller personal scale and larger global scale. So let’s get down to it. There aren’t many of these left, so if you’re not a big fan of these, just hang in there for a couple of weeks more. 🙂

1. Foodporn Fever – gnocchi, kimchi and manchego

I sucked last week to take pictures of my food, so I’m not going to write in detail about them. I kinda ruined a pack of fresh delicious gnocchis with pesto-in-a-jar, cos it was kinda nasty. Especially when I know my homemade pesto is so freaking good. But the over-all combination was pretty good. I made chicken thighs, baked in the oven with some yellow paprika and green beans. I fried up some spinach and minitomatoes and mix it with the pesto gnocchi. So it really would have been a perfect and healthy and delicious lunchbox only if the pesto was better.

It was supercold last week, reaching almost -10 celcius and whenever it’s that cold outside, my body would crave something hot and spicy and hearty. So I made Korean kimchi stew. Whenever I make Korean stews, I use Maangchi’s kimchi stew recipe as a base and I would change up ingredients. But the soup base, kimchi and paste are the same. This time I added tofu, mini rice cakes, chicken thighs and oyster mushrooms. And I also failed to take a picture this time. Korean stews aren’t the most photogenic dish, but it is oh so good.

Remember how I raved about this Spanish cheese called manchego last week? Well I found it in my local supermarket, which was little surprising. And like I planned before, I got a jar of fig jam. I’m pretty proud of myself, because it went perfectly with the cheese. I also tried the cheese with some good honey I got from a food market earlier. It’s quite good with the honey, but let me tell you, it was divine with the fig jam. I’m glad I didn’t got addicted to some expensive cheese, cos I’m not exactly rich. 😀 I also got a bottle of Spanish red wine that goes well with mild cheeses, and I felt so very adult sipping the wine and eating cheese. XD I also realize that consuming cheese and jam and wine isn’t exactly healthy, but for another month or so I’m going to indulge myself. The reason why? Well, I’m going to talk about it more later in Happy Hubbub.