Easter Sunday food

You can always count on some good food in the south during holidays! We always go to Granddaddy's after church. I made grape salad as my side dish. It's delicious. I learned how to make it from my friend Dawn. She made it for a woman's conference at church and I had to have the recipe.

It's pretty simple: 2 cups red grapes (seedless), 2 cups green grapes (seedless), 8 oz cream cheese softened, 8 oz sour cream, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup chopped pecans and 1/2 cup brown sugar. I couldn't find green grapes so I used red - it's prettier with both colors. Melt the cream cheese, sour cream and sugar in the microwave and mix well. Add the grapes and stir. Place in a pan. Let it cool in the refrigerator for a couple of hours to set. Then before serving, add the brown sugar and pecans. I doubled the recipe.

Here is what it looked like when it was done. It was a hit!
Steph made the pasta salad. She uses tri-colored pasta, black olives, cucumbers and grape tomatoes cut in half. She adds italian dressing and mixes. Easy and really good!
Grandaddy always provides the ham. I love salty ham but Nick likes sweet. At this point, I don't mind either.
Suzy made deviled eggs. I've never tried to make deviled eggs and I don't bother trying because Suzy are amazing.
Debbie brought the cupcakes. They are too cute! She said she looked for green edible paper but couldn't find any. I think they are precious!
I didn't try the cookies either. They looked good though. Rhonda made them - she had a couple of prepacked cookies - nothing wrong with that because they are easy and taste great.

Chicken, Broccoli and tomatoes

There are days where I just don't want to find a recipe to make dinner. I looked in the fridge and found some chicken thighs, broccoli and grape tomatoes. I bought them at Publix because they were on sale. I decided to cube the chicken and saute it in olive oil. I seasoned the chicken with salt, pepper, garlic powder and dried thyme. I use garlic powder when I don't have fresh garlic to use. I would rather use fresh garlic!

After browning the chicken, I added the broccoli and tomatoes and mixed the food up. I added a cup of water and covered with a lid to steam the vegetables and finish cooking the chicken. I cooked brown rice as a side. It didn't take much time to cook and it was great! The kids loved it which in itself, is a HUGE deal.

Seoul Restaurant

There is a Korean restaurant off of Greensprings that Nick and I like to go to for Korean food. I really don't know of another Korean restaurant near us. I have a Korean friend from the St. Louis area that said he liked it but they had some items that he wish they had. Hopefully we'll find another one that we can try as well. My favorite is Kimchee. I could eat it with anything!

They start you off with side dishes or appetizers. Pictured are (left picture): Black beans and anchovies, kimchee, turnips and seaweed. (Right picture): Kimchee. YUM!

Pickled cucumbers. I love these. They are pickled and a bit sweet.
Spicy bean sprouts and seaweed. Both are so good. I can eat them by itself but Nick likes to wait for the rice so it will not be so spicy.
I ordered the rice bowl pictured on the left. The rice was placed in a hot pot that made the rice that contacted the bowl crispy. There were pickled veggies, stir fried veggies, some pork on top of the rice and to top it all off... a fried egg. They gave me a chili sauce to put on the rice that was not too hot. It was a spicy sweet red chili sauce that was so good. Nick got the beef bulgogi - stir fried beef, onions, bell pepper and sesame seeds. His tummy was not up for spicy that day.
The food was good overall. I was not a huge fan of the beef because I would have liked it with more spice but I did love my rice bowl. If you go, be adventurous!