"John Kane" > wrote in message
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>
> DWACON wrote:
> > Anyone got a recipe?
> >
> > Just from taste, I gather it contains vinegar, sugar and ginger to
pickle
> > the raw cabbage.
> >
> > Am I close?
>
> If the other posters are correct and it is Kimchee it has those plus
> hot peppers, lots of garlic, the odd bit of squid and ??? what am I
> forgetting?
>
> Any decent Asian shop should have a jar or two.

You can have crab kim-chee, squid kim-chee, fish kim-chee, shrimp kim-chee
AND veggie kim-chee. The main ingredient is cabbage and the spicy liquid.
I had a Korean friend on Maui who used to make it all the time. She'd stuff
a huge jar with the ingredients (secret family recipe, of course) and bury
it in the yard for about 3 months or so. Then she'd dig it out and serve
it. I won't touch anything spicy, but my ex-husband and my best friend back
there declared it the best they ever had. (Hers didn't have any kind of
meat in it at all.)

My husband loves kim-chee, so I called my friend, Yon Hui, up to get her
recipe so I might try to make it. She wouldn't budge. Darn it!

kili