We Got New Dishes
Posted: October 22, 2010 Filed under: Korea | Tags: Baking, Convection oven, Cooking, Costco, Dishware, Korea, Oven, Seoul Leave a comment »For many a month we have all felt like we’re just trying to survive here and get settled in. After almost a year, we feel as though we’re more planted in Korea and can start to consider more than just how to survive and start to create a life where we can live.
One of the things we love to do is eat good food and it seems to reason that taking care of things in the kitchen would be a good place to start creating a home. We’ve made two purchases lately that do just that: an oven and a set of matching dishes. Maybe it’s lame to some people but trust me, when you’re in a totally different environment it can really help the psyche.
The oven is not what you’re thinking of, I’m sure. It’s a counter top convection oven that’s big enough to cook a whole chicken but not a turkey. That’ll give you an idea of the size. K loves to bake and it’s something we really miss in Korea as they don’t really bake in the home. You can go to a bakery but it costs us to get to town and isn’t typically worth the trip just for baked goods (though we’ve managed to get over that hurdle in our minds a few times). Sometimes you just want a part of home and bread, cookies, and muffins are that for us.
The second purchase was something K has been wanting for a while — a new set of dishes. The English Village provided some dishes but was completely inadequate for a family — two large plates, two dessert plates, two coffee mugs…you get the point. At one point we had to take some more spoons and forks from the cafeteria to borrow during our time here just so we don’t have to wash dishes every two hours.
We had managed to find some good, but flimsy, plastic dishes at Costco (yes, like in America) but as decent as they were they just weren’t cutting it for us. As we were just in survival mode, they worked fine but lately K has been keeping her eyes out for “real” dishes. So tonight, after I got off work, we went to Seoul and bought a set of good dishes. You can see pictures of them below. We’re all excited to use them tomorrow and have some proper dishware. We also bought a couple more mugs (not pictured) to go with two mugs we purchased last week.
Things are looking up here in Korea. We’re not totally sure about the future, but wherever that is we’ll have some beautiful plates to eat off of!
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