Jeon- Korean style pan cake

Hello, I hope you have spent a nice new year season with your family and friends.

We had a cold weekend in Eastern Asia because of the high pressure system from Siberia. It was minus 17.8 degrees C in Seoul for the first time in 10 years and even in Busan was minus 12 degrees C!

It seems that natural disasters show up all over the world more often than before. As soon as Europe finished the horrible cold-wave disaster, the flood has come in Australia, Brazil and Sri Lanka. Everything happened just in a month!

All we can do now is always think about how to reduce the impact of our life-style on the earth's eco- system, otherwise I am afraid that the future could be more unexpected in a negative way...

Ingredients:

egg (1)

flour (1/2cup)

potato starch (1/4cup)

water or chicken soup (1/2cup±)

salt

sesame oil

soy sauce

vinegar

sesame

kimchi

green leek

*you can add another vegetables as well.

1- Mix the egg, flour, potato starch, half a tea spoon of salt and water together.

2- Cut the kimchi finely and green leek into 3cm pieces.

3- Put 2 into 1 and stir well.

4- Place some of 3 thinly on a heated pan with sesame oil and flip it over when one side is cooked.

5- Make the sauce with soy sauce, vinegar, sesame and sesame oil.

6- When 4 is cooked, please cut it into small pieces and eat it with the sauce.

Itadakimasu.

Okonomiyaki

What is fast food in your place? Burgers? Chips? I will introduce some Japanese fast food called okonomiyaki today.

Okonomiyaki is very popular in Japan. There are two main types from Osaka and Hiroshima. Osaka okonomiyaki uses a thick flour with a lot of cabbage and another ingredients like pork. Hiroshima one has a thin flour but also a lot of noodles. However, recently you can find many different types of okonomyaki with cheese, mochi (rice cake), kimchi etc.

Today I will cook three types of simple okonomiyaki. They are normal, egg and kimchi. Of course you can put anything you like on the okonomiyaki. This could be meat, sea food, vegetables or spices... because 'customization' is the best thing about okonomiyaki!

Ingredients:

flour (3tbsps)

water (3tbsps)

dried soup stock

salt

cabbage

chinese chive

(kimchi)

(egg)

1- Cut the vegetables finely and mix the flour, water, salt and soup stock.

2- Mix 1 together. Heat some oil on a pan and fry the mix.

3- When the bottom side is cooked, flip around and fry it until it's all cooked.

For the kimchi okonomiyaki, please mix the finely cut kimchi with 1 (picture above). For the egg type, you can put an egg in the pan after the bottom side is cooked, then flip the okonomiyaki on it.

Itadakimasu.