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FRIDAY FAKEOUT RECIPES Authentic Korean
Vegan Korean Rice Bowl
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INGREDIENTS
• 160g cooked jasmine rice • 5 red radishes, sliced
• 80g of pan-fried tofu • A few slices of cucumber
• Blanched broccoli florets
• 1 tbsp Sun Hee Kimchi • 2 tbsp Sun Hee Gouchjang paste • 2 tbsp light soy sauce • 2 tbsp water • A few pinches of black & white sesame seeds • A few pinches of Korean chilli flakes INSTRUCTIONS
In a medium hot saucepan, add the Sun Hee gochujang paste, water and light soy sauce, mixing it well to form a runny sauce. To assemble the rice bowl, first add the cooked jasmine rice at the bottom. Then arrange the sliced red radish, pan fried tofu, sliced cucumber and broccoli florets on top. Sprinkle over some Korean chilli flakes and the white and black sesame seeds.
Serve with a dollop of the sauce you made earlier, and the Sun Hee Kimchi.
Korean Style Beef Burger
INGREDIENTS
• 200g minced beef • 2 tbsp Sun Hee Korean BBQ sauce • 1 tbsp ginger & garlic paste • 2 burger buns • Salt & pepper • ½ brown onion, chopped • A few slices of cheddar cheese
• 1 red onion, sliced
• 1 tomato, sliced
• Handful of salad leaves INSTRUCTIONS
Preheat your over to 180o degrees Celsius. In a mixing bowl combine the beef, ginger & garlic paste, salt, pepper, Sun Hee Korean BBQ sauce and chopped onion. Mix together well and press it into two burger patties. Place the patties on a tray and cook in the centre of the oven for 15 minutes. A couple of minutes before the end, place the sliced cheddar cheese on top of the patties to melt.
Meanwhile, slice the red onion and tomato. Lightly toast the burger buns and add a few salad leaves to the bottom. Once the patties are cooked, add the burgers to the bun along with a couple of slices of red onion and tomato. Drizzle over a generous amount of Sun Hee BBQ sauce, pop the top of the burger bun on and enjoy.
Korean Bibimbap Guksu Bowl
INGREDIENTS
• Half a carrot, sliced julienne • 4 spring onions, sliced lengthways • Handful of bean sprouts • 70g sautéed mushrooms • Handful of green beans • 100g minced beef • 200g boiled rice noodles • 1 egg • Sesame seeds to sprinkle • 2 tbsp Sun Hee Doenjang • 1 tbsp Sun Hee Gochujang • 2 tbsp light soy sauce • 1 tbsp mirin • 1 tbsp cooking oil • Water • Sun Hee Kimchi • A few pinches of black & white sesame seeds • A few pinches of Korean chilli flakes INSTRUCTIONS
Add the oil to a medium hot pan before adding the minced beef, Sun Hee Gochujang paste, mirin and salt to taste. Cook for 2 minutes then sprinkle over some water. Cover and cook for another 7-8 minutes. Set aside once cooked.
To make the sauce, in a medium hot saucepan add the Sun Hee Doenjang paste, light soy sauce and two tablespoons of water.
Mix together well until it forms a runny and set aside for later.
To assemble the bowl, add the cooked rice noodles at the centre and add the carrots, spring onions, bean sprout, sautéed mushrooms, green beans and cooked beef mince around them.
Fry the egg and place it in the centre, on top of the noodles. Serve hot with the sauce you made earlier, and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Serve alongside a dish of Sun Hee Kimchi.
Korean BBQ Chicken
INGREDIENTS
• 2 tbsp Sun Hee Gochujang • 2 tbsp Sun Hee Korean BBQ sauce • 300g of chicken of your choice (wings, breast, or thighs) • 1 clove garlic • 1 tsp chilli flakes • 200g plain flour • 220ml buttermilk
• 2 tbsp honey • Salt and pepper • Sesame seeds to sprinkle • Handful of chopped chives • Cooking oil INSTRUCTIONS
To make the sauce, heat some oil in a medium hot pan and add the garlic. Then add gochujang, chilli flakes, Korean BBQ sauce and mix it together well. Next add the honey, give it a quick stir and add salt and pepper to taste. Season the chicken with salt and pepper before soaking it in the buttermilk for five minutes. Add the flour to a separate bowl. Once the chicken has soaked, remove it from the buttermilk and coat each piece in the flour. Heat some more oil in a frying pan and shallow fry the chicken until it’s cooked through. Once cooked, toss it in the sauce and serve with a garnish of chopped chives and sesame seeds.
WE ARE THE RNLI
THE CHARITY THAT SAVES LIVES AT SEA
When volunteering to join the RNLI, people take the plunge for many different reasons. Whether it’s to help save lives at sea, to give something back to the local community, to make a difference to people’s lives or maybe to learn new skills.
The one reason volunteers don’t join for, is personal recognition. To emphasise that message, the word selfless is actually at the heart of the RNLI values. Congratulate a RNLI volunteer for a job well done and the response is generally, ‘It’s what we do’.
That doesn’t mean showing courage, or long service isn’t sometimes recognised and not always just by the charity itself.
Every New Year, the Honour’s list is published, recognising the achievements and service of extraordinary people across the UK. This year, two stalwarts of the Fylde RNLI voluntary services, David Forshaw and Dorothy Charnley, received the Medallist of the Order of the British Empire (B.E.M.) for services to the RNLI and charity.
David Forshaw started fundraising for the RNLI back in 1979, before moving to a more operational role in 1984 with his local lifeboat station at Lytham St Anne’s. David became Shore Crew and then Head Launcher in 1990. David continues as a volunteer today, still multi-tasking, as both Lifeboat Press Officer and Deputy Launch Authority. In his spare time and when Covid restrictions allow, he will recommence helping to host visits from local organisations and schools.
David recalls helping to start up the Lytham Museum in 1986, which housed memorabilia from the Lytham St Anne’s RNLI stations, which unfortunately had to close in 2004. He has proudly continued to maintain the Lytham St Anne’s RNLI archives and will happily share his enormous knowledge of local RNLI information, of which I gratefully take advantage of.
Dorothy, on the other hand, has volunteered with the RNLI for 23 years, running the very successful RNLI shop at Blackpool. But Dorothy was also instrumental in creating an educational centre at the Blackpool lifeboat station, enabling many thousands of visitors to learn about water safety. You can’t imagine how many lives Dorothy may have saved. She has also mentored more than 100 volunteers and given over 4,000 voluntary days at the shop, leading her team to raise over £1million.
Blackpool RNLI were also grateful for her support, when needing to raise £52,000 for their new D class in-shore lifeboat. There are no signs of 88-year-old Dorothy giving up her voluntary support for the RNLI just yet, either. Inspirational doesn’t come close. Dorothy isn’t the only decorated volunteer at Blackpool RNLI. Keith Horrocks, MBE, recently retired after 53 years of voluntary service with the charity. Joining his local lifeboat station in 1969, Keith started his RNLI career as volunteer Shore Crew, before becoming crew on Blackpool’s Liverpool class all-weather lifeboat. He then became Helm on the Atlantic class inshore lifeboat in 1975. Keith retired from crew in 1998, but continued to support his team from the shore, including leading the station as Lifeboat Operations Manager, Station Support Manager and Mechanic.
Keith has been recognised several times for his seamanship, courage and gallantry, most notably a RNLI bronze medal in January 1988, for a service carried out in horrendous conditions. Keith then became a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to the RNLI, in 1999.
Not that Keith was the only Horrocks at the lifeboat station. Keith’s son Jonathan (Johno) joined in 2005 and as volunteer Helm of the D class lifeboat, received a RNLI letter of thanks for his part in a rescue in 2015. The Horrocks’ family have spent over 70 years saving lives at sea with the RNLI. That’s some commitment and one that’ll be missed at Blackpool RNLI.
One of the more unusual awards given to a volunteer from the RNLI, came from the RSPCA. In 2004, Fleetwood RNLI’s full time Mechanic, Steve Carroll, answered the door at the lifeboat station, to discover two very upset people with a Japanese Akita. They owned two, but one had been cut off by the tide and was missing. Whilst they were describing the incident to Steve and asking for help, Steve’s RNLI pager burst into life and the Fleetwood volunteers were requested to launch to help a
LEFT: David Forshaw BEM, Lytham St Anne’s RNLI RIGHT: Dorothy Charnley BEM, Blackpool RNLI L-R: Keith & Johno Horrocks, Blackpool RNLI
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stricken yacht. Steve expressed his apologies, but the crew were needed elsewhere. He did promise to keep an eye out for the dog, whilst at sea though.
The Tyne class all-weather lifeboat, William Street, launched and quickly found the stricken eight metre yacht, Silver Jade, which was then put under tow back to Fleetwood. As the lifeboat turned near Wyre Light, still nearly two miles out, one of the volunteer crew spotted something in the water, which turned out to be a very exhausted Japanese Akita. Now Akita’s aren’t the leanest or smallest of dogs and it was quickly established that it wasn’t possible to haul this beast onto the high deck of the Tyne class lifeboat. So, Steve gallantly donned a dry suit, plunged into the swirling and cold waters of Morecambe Bay and made his way to the distressed animal. The Akita was obviously delighted to see Steve and clambered on top of him, clearly desperate for a rest, whilst Steve struggled to calm the 13 stone dog. Meanwhile, Coxswain Chris Hurst had requested the Fleetwood in-shore lifeboat launch, to collect both Steve and hid new found friend, the Akita from the bay.
The William Street stood by, both as a guide to the in-shore lifeboat and in case Steve should get into difficulties with the huge dog. When the in-shore lifeboat arrived, the three-man crew, with the help of Steve from behind in the water, heaved the enormous dog to safety, before Steve clambered aboard the in-shore lifeboat himself.
The Akita’s owners were waiting in Fleetwood and had been informed of the sighting and its impending rescue and were absolutely delighted to be reunited with their pet.
For this thoughtful and selfless deed, Steve was awarded the RSPCA’s Bronze Medal for his gallant actions in rescuing the dog.
Occasionally, lifeboats are launched to assist in a serious incident, but because of the nature and severity of the situation, are mainly required to stand by, ready to provide safety cover. Whilst not always directly involved in a rescue, they nevertheless, hold an important role should further problems arise. That doesn’t diminish the vital service they perform and can still result in their efforts being recognised and rewarded.
Such an occasion occurred in 2008. The Ro-Ro vessel, Riverdance, in the midst of a storm-force 10 gale, was hit by a large wave, which dislodged its cargo. The ship listed to one side and drifted onto the beach near Cleveleys. Both the Tyne class lifeboat William Street from Fleetwood and Lytham’s relief Mersey class lifeboat, Margaret Jean, were launched to assist. Several search and rescue helicopters from RAF Valley quickly arrived on scene and it was decided to lift off 14 passengers and crew. Whilst the lifeboats helped the helicopters by illuminating the ship, they also stood by, in appalling conditions, should anything further happen.
Once the helicopters had lifted the 14 from the ship, both the Fleetwood and Lytham lifeboats returned to Fleetwood for shelter. But the storm raged on and early the next morning, the nine members of crew left onboard the Riverdance, decided they needed to leave for their own safety. So once more, the William Street launched to stand by and assist.
The RNLI’s Chief Executive at the time, Andrew Freemantle CBE, later awarded a ‘Collective Letter of Appreciation’ to both lifeboat crews at Fleetwood and Lytham St Anne’s involved in this dramatic service, congratulating them on their first-class seamanship and teamwork, in such severe conditions.
The RNLI doesn’t have the monopoly on recognising bravery at sea. Fleetwood fisherman, Charlie Mewse, originally from Suffolk, met and married Fleetwood girl, Dora and joined the huge fishing fleet sailing out of the Lancastrian port. But just before he moved up to Lancashire, he was Skipper aboard the trawler Grackle, sailing out of Lowestoft.
One day in October, 1946, the Grackle answered a distress call from the Norwegian drifter Renascent, which had sprung a serious leak. Despite valiant efforts by the crew of the Scandinavian drifter, the Renascent was in a perilous position and sinking.
Skipper Mewse handled the Grackle with great ability and a high degree of courage, bringing the trawler alongside the larger Renascent. Despite very rough seas and gale force winds, they were able to take the crew off the stricken vessel, despite the considerable risk to the Grackle. All landed safely at Lowestoft.
For his courage and bravery in saving the lives of the Norwegian crew, Charlie was awarded with the Emile Robin Award, presented by the Shipwrecked Fishermen & Mariners Royal Benevolent Society, in 1947.
This award, named after the French philanthropist, Emile Robin, is given to the British Master and Chief Officer who incurred the greatest peril in rescuing survivors at sea.
Charlie was presented with the award by the Mayor of Fleetwood in 1947 and continued to skipper fishing boats out of the port, including the Harriet, for many years.
The family of Charlie Mewse are rightly proud of their association with both the award and the RNLI, as other family members continued as volunteers with the charity for many years following Charlie’s prestigious award. We thank granddaughter Sarah, for bringing the story and photographs to our attention.
LEFT: Charlie Mewse’s Emile Robin Award RIGHT: Charlie Mewse receiving his Emile Robin Award
