Tuesday, March 20, 2012

KAPS Professional dinner with Ymo's Kitchen @Mar03, 2012.


Hi everyone- 


A few weeks ago, 
Ymo's Kitchen invited a few of KAPS (Korean American Professional Society) members 
and hosted a foodie event- 


For more information about KAPS, 
please visit the official website: http://www.kaps.org/


We'd like to send our special thanks to Min Lee,
who gave us this awesome opportunity to have KAPS
and photographed beautiful pictures during whole dinner time. 

Thank you again, Min! 
























We prepared a goody bag for each guest.

It's always fun to prepare a little gift.

We wished our guest liked a small but surprising white paper bag :) 







 





 








Setting up a table for dinner :) 





















Table setting was simple but cozy. 

Andrew sponsored beautiful flowers for our dinner. 

Thanks Andrew! 





















Nayoung is checking dishes. 

Yes, we always do quality check haha. 

Thanks Min for capturing this awesome moments! 



















lighting up candles and waiting for our guests now.















and
The first dish of dinner was..




<Starter>


명란죽
Mentai Jook
(Rice porridge with pollock roe) 





 













<Appetizer>


떡산적
Tteok San Juck 
(Colorful skewered pancakes with green onion, marinated beef and rice cake)































<Main dish>


과일조림 동파육
Fruitty Donpayuk
(Steamed and braised pork belly in assorted fruits and soy sauce + onion salad with ponzu dressing ) 
































<Siksa (Rice dish)>


훈제연어 비빔밥\
Interesting Salmon Bibimbab 
(Rice dish with smoked salmon, salmon roe, caper, avocado and vegetables)




























Dessert time!

You know the classic is always the best.

There is no exception for dessert as well. 




<Dessert>

초컬릿쿠키 + 홈메이드 아이스크림
The perfect chocolate chip cookie + Homemade ice cream
(Fresh baked warm chocolate chip cookies + served with a scope of homemade ice-cream)
(Revealing Nayoung's fav chocolate chip cookie recipe) 
























Many hugs and thanks to our honored guests.

You graced us with your presence that night. 

Hope to see you guys again shortly :)






































and some leftover cookies.. yum! 

Who wants cookies ;) 
















Saturday, February 4, 2012

Test run : MENU - 5 course Prix fix dinner 012912


The very first our test run on Jan 29, 2012
Here's the menu :) 



Test run : FOOD - 5 course Prix fix dinner 012912


Dear friends- 
.
Food is our passion, art and life. 
We are neither professional cooks nor good at business. 
We just love entertaining, cooking and making good memories with friends 

Nayoung and Gia recently started a fun project: Ymo's kitchen  
and last weekend, we did our very first test run! 

.

Here's food shots :)

Starter : Sweet Pumpkin Jook (porridge)

Appetizer : Three Color Mandoo (dumpling)

Main : Galbi-jjim
- Korean BBQ sauce marinated beef stew -
served with White Kimchi

Siksa: Mentai Ochzke
- Tea rice with preserved pollock roe -

Dessert : Cinnamon Walnet Dduck (rice cake)






TADA!
Today's highlight, Galbi-jjim
- Korean BBQ sauce marinated beef stew -
served with White Kimchi







Three color mandoos :) 







Main dishes are served- 







and desserts-

Rice cakes and a piece of sweet pumpkin 
with a cup of green tea!




Test run : TABLE SETTING - 5 course Prix fix dinner 012912


Dear friends- 

.


Food is our passion, art and life. 
We are neither professional cooks nor good at business. 
We just love entertaining, cooking and making good memories with friends 

Nayoung and Gia recently started a fun project: Ymo's kitchen  
and last weekend, we did our very first test run! 




a few shots for table setting and atmosphere


we had only two days to prepare the party, so we couldn't prepare everything properly.
However apparently everything turned out great and 
we hope all guests had a fun time with our food :) 






a cup for water and another cup for wine. 

We really liked wax flowers :) 





Hi everyone!




Our test runners gave us a lot of great feedbacks
on the food and service. 
Thank you so much everyone who came and cheer us up :) 



Test run : PREPARATION - 5 course Prix fix dinner 012912

Dear friends- 

.


Food is our passion, art and life. 
We are neither professional cooks nor good at business. 
We just love entertaining, cooking and making good memories with friends 

Nayoung and Gia recently started a fun project: Ymo's kitchen  
and last weekend, we did our very first test run! 







We made Mandoo (dumpling) from scratch 
even wrappers adding three colors 

: red with beet
yellow with pumpkin 
light brown with wholewheat 












Yup, doing prep work! yo-ho!

Gia is removing all chestnut skins for Galbi-jjim 






Cute Ochazke balls aw :) 






Look at these veggies for Galbi-jjim!

How cute :D 






Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Ymo's Kitchen starts, yay :)