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About chefkelly

Leveraging a lifelong passion for food and combining a unique cultural mesh of korean cuisine, robust flavors of Texas BBQ and California cuisine, Chef Kelly brings her own signature style to delectable perfect bites exploring complex and often surprising interplay of flavors, textures and colors. She has honed and shared her craft through her experiences from five star restaurant kitchens to private cooking instruction to her self-written food blog at chefkelly.com all made with 2 tablespoons of love; love for food, love for life.

korean sushi, gimbap or kimbap (translation – “seaweed rice”)

cooking three days in a row!  Yum~ Yum~ 7 ingredients 1. egg 2. carrots 3. cucumber 4. gobo (japanese burdock) 5. spinach 6. yellow daikon 7. kalbi marinated beef Rice & Roasted Seaweed  

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Odwalla Berries GoMega snack bar review

The same peeps who make the all-natural juice has come out with new snack bars, on sale at Vons and Wholefoods that prompted me to try it. Hit with an afternoon hunger pang, I opened up a Berries GoMega. At … Continue reading

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Chicken or the egg? What to eat when you’re feeling sick… Tamago Mari & Chicken Soup

Been celebrating, post-detox and our wedding anniversary – whatever excuses to dine out at new places, many of which were just plain awesome~  Most of which I’ve reviewed on Yelp including Lucques, Osteria Mozza, Il Pastaio and around the other side, … Continue reading

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Simple and easy decadent breakfast sandwich recipe – Croque California

What is it about white bread?  The bad-rep’d Wonderbread kind, that calls your name now and then, no matter how much you try to disconnect any association with this fluffy, squishy refined white flour invention?  Maybe it’s nostalgia growing up with … Continue reading

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Korean Kimchi Recipes and Ideas – What to do with leftover kimchi

After a week of liver detox (no – it’s not part of AA – as one vendor at the Farmers Market asked…), and no cooking – I found a whole pickled kimchi in the back of the fridge that was … Continue reading

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Liver detox is finished! We caved to Korean beef noodle soup (sul lung tang) @ Hanbat in K-town and it was GOOD!

We’re human after all…we almost got to the finish line (just had one more meal of fruit for dinner).  It’s a Monday and for 5 days, we’ve been doing nothing but drinking water, herbal teas, fresh fruit and veggie juices … Continue reading

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Annual Detox, liver cleanse with Dr. Schulz = no food for 3 days…

I’m not the “hard-core” kind of a person to be detoxing, eating raw food, wearing birkies, hemp clothes and becoming a vegan.  But I do think that for all of the times you’ve had something you knew was bad for … Continue reading

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One pot Korean recipe – Mushroom risotto (made in rice cooker)

               Last meal before my annual detox, in mood for some comfort food, I pulled out the rice cooker and put together a super easy and tasty recipe for a mushroom risotto, korean style.  … Continue reading

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Fruit sushi – show time for the neighborhood get-together.

fruit sushi, catering-style~ Lesson learned today.  Don’t underestimate how much more energy and prep it takes cooking for more than 4-6 people, even if it’s not “true cooking”.    Decided to impress the new neighbors by my culinary creations of … Continue reading

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Fruit sushi this Sunday…at "meet the neighbors" get-together. What's fresh and in season?…

Going to the Farmers Market this weekend to pick out some beautiful, sweet fruits to make fruit sushi again.  I need some high impact goodies to make first impressions on meeting the neighbors.  Last time I checked, peaches were getting … Continue reading

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