Cycle 16 – Item 188
POST 5,667
12 (Sat) July 2025
Ribeye Steak in Marsala Sauce with Scallioned Mash
3.5
by me
at home
-Changgok, Sujeong, Seongnam, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea-
with W
Got our annual potato tribute. This year, however, I won’t document the effort to use them all up (see THE GAMJA PROJECT).
In fact, for the time being, I plan on cooking less. Partly because IZ is now in deep into puberty, and so he’s being an asshole at every opportunity, especially when I’m there: several times last week, we got into full-on shouting matches over lunch/dinner, and I had to resist the urge to start throwing plates at the wall (or at him), and stormed off to my room to cool off, meal wasted (for me). But of course I can’t cook something and refuse to let him eat, so I’d rather just not cook.
Tonight, both boys were out doing something with his friends. And I had a steak on ice that needed to be cooked. Plus the potatoes.
With distant yet distinct memories of the most amazing soup that I’ve ever made (but for some unfathomable reason never made again), involving potatoes and leeks (technically, the recipe calls for leeks, but leeks aren’t available in Korea, so daepa is the closest thing) (see generally 3.137 Potage Parmentier), I prepared mashed potatoes with scallions as the primary aromatic (rather than, say, garlic or truffle paste).
It was good. Even more scallions next time.
(See GLOBAL FOOD GLOSSARY)