Fusion Power

Have you tried Korean barbeque, pasta, and cucumber & pear salad? All for one meal? I have. It was a quite of an odd and interesting combination but it was quite tasty. It wasn't just me, my honey liked it too. He's such a good sport for trying my experimental dishes. I felt the need to exercise my creative fusion power the other day. One, I had marinated Korean barbeque in the freezer that I've been wanting to eat. It's my mom's. :) Two, I had a bunch of parsley that I didn't know what to do with. Three, I felt like having cucumber in some sort of salad form. So I decided to make a fusion meal.

For the barbeque, just pan-fried it. Excellent!


With parsley, I made parsley pesto. Followed a recipe. Never made pesto so I was excited to make it. But I think I like the traditional version with basil better. I incorporated into cooked spaghetti. Turned out pretty good.


Now the cucumber salad. I diced the Korean cucumbers. I think they may be called Persian cucumbers too. Whichever you prefer to call them, they're the smaller ones. Mixed with diced Korean/Asian pear. Okay here we go again with the regional thing...you know these, these are the round ones with brown skin. Tossed with some sesame dressing and a tiny bit of red pepper flakes. It looked pretty and it tasted refreshing.


Oddly enough, everything went well together and we both enjoyed the meal with some sake. Now that's what you call a culinary adventure! Bon appetit!