He's kookoo for kimchi

-We've been quite sick around here. Last week I was bed/couch ridden for two days feeling like I'd been run over by a truck. Mckay nursed me back to health, then he got sick, but with somewhat different symptoms, and then I re-got sick. Now we both have matching nasty, gross colds. Cute.

-I have a pet now. It's a little darling bunny. Okay, it's not really my pet. "No pets!!!" is actually the text I got from Mckay when I told him I had a pet bunny. That was before I clarified that it was an outside bunny-now he's cool with it. So really there is just this bunny that hangs around our yard and I like to pretend it's because she loves me. I did give her three carrots today to buy her love. And named her Rosie the {my} bunny. I chose that name because M has vowed to veto "Rosie" when/if we have a girl babe, sad.

-On Sunday Mckay made me dinner. It was the very first time he's ever cooked for me. (He counts last December when he made french toast for my family while we were visiting Logan, I don't.)  He decided to make Korean food (he served his mission in Korea) and enlisted the help of our good friend Jong Seung.  So I relaxed while they steamed up my kitchen.

Ever heard of kimchi (it's the red, wilted veggies in the pan above)? It's basically fermented cabbage and other vegetables. Korean people LOVE it. More than love, they're a little obsessed.  They cannot live without it. I was listening to NPR a few weeks ago and the price of cabbage had spiked for a few weeks and people were paying $10.00/cabbage. If you live in Korea you eat kimchi every single day (!!!???).  Not kidding.

Our finished product.  Here we have Mckay's favorite Korean dish, kimchi bokumbop or kimchi fried rice if you will. It was a fantastic dinner.  I was hesitant and worried that I wouldn't like any of it, but I actually ate everything off my plate. The meat was my favorite, it was incredible. The rice was good, minus the kimchi was a little strong, but it's an acquired taste, so they tell me.  The pancake looking thing is a potato smashed and fried with green onions, yum! Also some pot sticker type thing. Impressed? I was.

It was fun to learn so much about Korea and hear a few of Mckay's mission stories.  The only thing I wasn't crazy about was the smell of fried, fermented cabbage that filled our home for a few days. Next time we'll cook at JS's house. Yep.

-Lastly, I came home to an Autumn themed package from my Mama. It was so wonderful, totally brightened my day.  She sent us a jar of her canned peaches (a fave), apricot jam, fall colored dish towels, microwave pop-corn on the cob (cute!), and some pumpkins for decorations. She's the sweetest.