• 2 lbs pork loin roast
• 4 T soy sauce
• 1/3 cup koch'ujang (hot red pepper paste)
• 1/4 cup rice wine
• Koch'u karu (red pepper paste) to taste (I use 1 T)
• 3 T sugar
• 2 oz fresh ginger, grated
• 6 cloves crushed garlic
• 4 green onions, white and light green parts, chopped
• 2 walnuts, chopped
• 2 T sesame oil
• 1 T sesame seeds

Enjoy.

Dear Steve Carell. It's about to rain. A lot. Please build an ark and save the animals. Sincerely, God.

ESPN gets credit for this week's theme. And ok, I suppose we should give credit to a certain Evan Turner as well. After all, he makes it rain too...

So with that win, as well as the double overtime escape over the Fighting Illini (that's Illinois, for those less NCAA inclined), the Ohio State Buckeyes have advanced to the Big Ten championship game, where they will take on.....our very own Golden Gophers!

...wait....what....???

Yes indeed, there is one Minnesota basketball team making some serious progress. In what is Tubby Smith's biggest accomplishment here in Minny yet, the Gophers will play in their first Big Ten championship game ever, after knocking out the NCAA's golden boy of 2009....Kalin Lucas....and Michigan State, then running roughshod over Jajuan Johnson and the Purdue Boilermakers today. Granted the Boilermakers were missing a rather significant player by the name of Robbie Hummel, without whom Purdue lacked enough length to fight off twin towers Ralph Sampson III and Colton Iverson (hint hint Timberwolves...) But it is what it is.

So how about that Evan Turner?

Well, there's a rather big college basketball tournament coming up soon. March Madness. Maybe you've heard of it? And for fans of an anemic team like the Wolves...well, watching the potential future is a lot less painful than watching the present.

So this week is chock full of college-y goodness. There's still plenty of NBA news to cover...and we'll cover it....but with visions of Evan Turner in Wolves white and blue, all your eyes are on the college kids these days, I'm sure...

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Seeing as how Kentucky and Ohio State are both on TV right now, I thought I'd start this as sort of an open thread for people's comments/thoughts on these three players.

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I don't really have anything to say about last night's game.  Lots of non-efforts, crappy play, boring ball, and...is this season over yet?  I have a bad feeling I'm going to need a new Korean cookbook before it's all said and done with. 

Today's recipe is chapchae.  It's one of my favorite Korean noodle dishes.  If you don't like the taste of sesame oil, this dish is not for  you.  The hardest part of preparing the dish is getting the right mix of veggies within the noodles.  The noodles that are used in this dish are sticky and hard to stir.  This is a great one-dish meal that is especially tasty after a night out on the town.  It's a full course affair as well as a big bowl of drunken noodles.

Until later.