ok... who gave my dog rancid kim-chi?

[MonkeyFunk]

I feed him a quality dry food. And he's farting like Ernest Borgnine after a Cream Ale bender. Fess up!

[MonkeyFunk]

1. It's a sad, sad day

in the lounge when a dog-fart thread can't get any love.

[Nickster]

2. Rancid Kim-chi, isn't that redundant? n/t

[MonkeyFunk]

4. nuh uh

quality kim-chi is only the EDGE of being rancid.

I spent a couple days in Seoul, and I've never had better food. It's a weird, cold, dismal city, but damn, the food rocks.

[Nickster]

7. Oh I know all about kim-chi. I have a Korean in the household after all. We even make our own.

I don't partake often, but my wife eats it with just about everything, that and peppers.

[MonkeyFunk]

9. cool...

I was amazed when I was there. I thought kim-chi was kim-chi... how wrong I was!

There's breakfast kim-chi, and lunch kim-chi, and dinner kim-chi, and many varieties of each. And every one was great.

How does your wife make it? I'd love to get a recipe. Do I have to bury it in the yard for a year?

[Nickster]

22. That bury in the yard thing is a myth. They don't do that.

Do you have a Korean store nearby? There's a red pepper that you need, nothing else really seemed to work well. If you go to a Korean store, you won't miss it, they have it in huge bags because it's used in just about everything. Hai-Tai distributors is what the bag says on it. It's just described as crushed red pepper.

This is the basic recipe for a small batch.

1 Large head of Napa cabbage. Coarsely chopped.
1 small white radish shredded.
3-4 tablespoons of sea salt
red pepper to taste, really have to taste it as you make it to get the amount of pepper right
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp salt
5 cloves of garlic smashed
1 knob of fresh ginger, about an inch, finely smashed
1 1/2 tbsp of fish oil

Spread sea salt evenly throughout the chopped cabbage and let it sit out overnight

Drain most of the juices that will be drawn from the cabbage and set aside

mix red pepper flakes, sugar,salt, garlic, fish oil and ginger into the shredded radish.

Pour radish mixture with juices into the cabbage and mix well with your hands as you add more red pepper if you like.

Place mix into airtight jar and store in refrigerator.

[MonkeyFunk]

24. ummm

I think I'll just buy it in a jar.

I don't have red peppers, white radishes and my fish's oil is a quart low.

[Nickster]

27. Wuss. :-) n/t

[MonkeyFunk]

28. I ain't a wuss....

ok, I am.

But what the heck is a white radish? The radishes I know are mostly white - on the inside.

And by red pepper, do you mean a bell pepper? A chili?

[Nickster]

29. Everytime I've seen white radish in the store, it's just marked as white radish.

It looks like this. It might be called Chinese Radish in the store.



You don't have to have white radish, you can substitute shredded carrots if you want or leave it out all together. This just happens to be the way that we make it. You could also mix in some fresh chives or chopped up green onions.

Here's what the red pepper looks like. If you find a Korean store, you will not miss this stuff, it's a staple item. They have them in everything from 1lb bags to 25 lb bags.



9/10 of the stuff you will find in a regular grocery store. Most of the stuff I get is at the local Jewel. It's just that crushed red pepper is such a pain to find. I tried to substitute the crushed red pepper from the local Mexican market, and it was no where near the same.

[Little Wing]

3. Yes! Borgnine!

Lounge Thread of the Day!

[Danger Mouse]

5. It was me. My bad. Watch out for Ernest's dutch ovens, by the way.

I've heard that they're lethal.

[MonkeyFunk]

6. oh god

tell me about it.

Ethel Merman taught him that gag, and he's never tired of it.

[Danger Mouse]

11. Nothing is worse than Ethel's dutch treats.

The ovens were bad enough, but she just HAD to take it to the next level.

[MonkeyFunk]

12. She once

cleared out the Wintergarden while straining to hit a high note in Oklahoma.

[Danger Mouse]

13. Sharts are no fun for anybody.

It's like a super skidmark, with a bonus deposit.

[MonkeyFunk]

14. She once

hit a high F-sharp from her non-vocal end. And then she harmonized. She was a goddess.

[Danger Mouse]

25. She also had a disco album.

She provided the bass line herself.
She didn't need a musical instrument either.

[China_cat]

8. A little cottage cheese, active culture yogurt or buttermilk

a couple times a week will keep you from needing a gas mask.

From the owner of 3 who could be deemed a factory for weapons of ass destruction. (It really works)

[MonkeyFunk]

10. ooh

thanks. I'll try that.

He's a good dog. He just gets a little stinky at times. I'll give him some yogurt and see what happens.

[unsavedtrash]

17. thank you.

We have an older dog who makes our eyes water and our noses rot on a regular basis.

[susanna]

23. Interesting that you posted this.

I once marveled at the fact that my late dog never gassed me out of a room. She was a 100-pounder and I figured "everything's eventual." But it only happened once, and that was when she was taking an antibiotic for something or another. I remember thinking how lucky I got on that score (I grew up with several "airy" canines).

The reason I posted that was because I think you are right, in hindsight anyway. Cottage cheese, yogurt, cheeses and buttermilk were "treats" to her. She loved cultured dairy and I would give it to her a few times a week. So now I think that might have been the reason we co-existed so peacefully. :-)

on edit: clarity

[Beaverhausen]

15. oh my god...this thread

:rofl:

[MonkeyFunk]

16. oh sure...

laugh all you want.

I'm trying to get a UN resolution against this. I suppose you found Saddam funny.

[China_cat]

18. You have obviously never lived with a dog (or 3)

who could let off visible clouds of chemical warfare guaranteed to peel paint and wall paper and cause the canary to end feet up in the bottom of his cage.

[MonkeyFunk]

19. eggzacly

my dog is now putting out "audibles'. Something bad got into his belly.

[China_cat]

20. While the cottage cheese/yogurt avenue is definitely

cheaper and easier to give, a lot of people who have my breed (Bouviers) give them Beano 3 times a week with good results.

[Beaverhausen]

21. Actually, I had never heard the word "sharts" before

believe me, I've been around many a dog fart in my day...our dog loved to eat all the hot dogs and burgers that somehow fell off the grille!

[Generic Brad]

26. Thanks for the reminder

I have some rancid kim chee in my fridge I need to throw out. I had forgotten about it.

[spinbaby]

30. Mmmm...wonder how the neighbor's dog is doing

We use our neighbor's dog as sort of a leftover disposal. She's a big shepherd-chow mix with, apparently, an iron stomach. Every evening she wanders by to see what we have in the way of treats.

Last night, she had coconut seafood curry with a topping of leftover cat food.