potatoes pancake


ingredients:
- 4 medium to small potatoes, diced
- 1 onion
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 tbsp flaxseed powder, optional (just increase omega 3 and 6)
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp salt
- pinch of black pepper
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup rice flour
- 3 tbsp corn starch
- 1/2 tsp baking soda, optional
- 2 packages of roasted seaweed, optional

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- 4 medium to small potatoes, diced
- 1 onion, chopped
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 tbsp flaxseed powder, optional (just increase omega 3 and 6)
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp salt
- pinch of black pepper
- 1/4 cup water

1. Blend potatoes, onion, garlic, flaxseed powder, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, black pepper, and water together until smooth.

- 1/4 cup rice flour
- 3 tbsp corn starch
- 1/2 tsp baking soda, optional

2. Add rice flour, corn starch, baking soda, mix until thick batter.

3. Preheat a non-stick pan on stove top at medium low heat.

- 2 packages of roasted seaweed, optional

4. Spread the batter on the non-stick pan, add roasted seaweed on top, cook around for 3 mins or until golden brown.

5. Flip over and cook another 3 mins or until golden brown.

6. Serve immediately for crispy texture.

note: Rice flour and corn starch create teh crispy texture.  But also can substitute by all-purpose flour or korean pancake mix.

korean marinated sauce for meat


ingredients:
- 1 apple, or half apple half pear
- 1 onion
- 6 cloves garlic
- 1 shallot
- 1 or 2 slices ginger
- 1 green onion
- 1 tsp or more black pepper
- 1 to 2 tbsp corn syrup, or more to taste
- 1 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 2 tsp vegemite (optional)
- 1/4 cup cooking wine
- 1/4 cup water, or more during cooking
- 1/3 cup of magi, or more to taste
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 small potato or 3 tsp cornstarch 
- 1 tbsp red pepper powder, optional

1. Blend everything in blender until all smooth.

2. Use it to marinate beef, pork or chicken, store in refrigerator at least 8 hrs or overnight. 

3. Cooking day, slice favour vegetable, e.g. onion, mushroom, zucchini, bell pepper, garlic, shallot, etc.

4. Stir fry onion, garlic, shallot.

5. Add the marinated sauce, others sliced vegetable.  Cook until the vegetable is soft.

6. Add the marinated meat, continue cooking until well done.

7. Add cooked glass noodle if want.

8. Anytime can add water if the sauce is too thick.

9. Add salt or magi, corn syrup to taste.

korean brasied potatoes


ingredients:
- 2 potatoes, chopped into 1" cubes size
- 1 onion, chopped, optional
- 2 - 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tbsp maggi seasoning or soy sauce
- 1 tbsp corn syrup
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 cup water

1. Leave the chopped potatoes into the water for 30 mins.  Rinse.

2. Preheat the non-stick pan to medium heat.

3. Cook the potatoes until a little translucent.

4. Add onion and continue to cook, until onion nearly done.

5. Add minced garlic and continue cooking for few seconds.

6. Add maggi seasoning or soy sauce, corn syrup, sugar, and water.

7. Keep stirring and simmer for about 10 mins. or until the liquid is evaporated.

8. Ready to eat.  It can keep in refrigerator up to 1 week.

ref: https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/gamja-bokkeum

imitation crab meat crepes


ingredients:
- 1 egg
- equivalent amount whipping cream or milk
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp mustard powder, optional (for coloring)
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp tapioca powder, optional
- 1/2 cup cake flour / all purpose flour or more
- around 4 sticks imitation crab, cut it half
- mayo

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- 1 egg
- equivalent amount whipping cream or milk
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp mustard powder, optional (for coloring)
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder

1. Beat egg, whipping cream or milk, sugar, mustard powder baking soda and baking powder together.

- 2 tsp tapioca powder, optional
- 1/2 cup cake flour / all purpose flour or more

2. Add tapioca powder and mix well.

3. Slowly add cake flour / all purpose flour, until the batter texture a little thicker than gravy.

4. Preheat the crepe maker pan or non-stick pan at medium low heat.

4. Spread the batter on the pan.

- around 4 sticks imitation crab, cut it half
- mayo

5. Add imitation crab and mayo.


6. Roll up the crepe.


7. Ready to eat.

easy kimchi with 7up


ingredients:
- 1 napa cabbage, chopped into big pieces
- 2 tbsp coarse salt
- 1 green onion, chopped
- 4 - 6 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 sliced ginger, minced
- 1 tsp japanese dashi stock powder or more
- 3 tbsp korean hot pepper flakes
- 1 1/2 tbsp fish sauce or more
- 500 ml 7up

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- 1 napa cabbage, chopped into big pieces
- 2 tbsp coarse salt

1. Rinse the chopped napa and coat with coarse salt.

2. Stir every 30 mins, rinse it after 2 hrs.

- 1 green onion, chopped
- 4 - 6 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 sliced ginger, minced
- 1 tsp japanese dashi stock powder or more
- 3 tbsp korean hot pepper flakes
- 1 1/2 tbsp fish sauce or more
- 500 ml 7up

3. Add the rest ingredients together and mix well.  Adjust the taste with dashi stock powder and or fish sauce.  If too salty, can add some sugar.

4. Keep in refrigerator up to 1 day for better taste.  Ready to eat.

note: this kimchi can keep longer without sour taste.

air fryer shrimp toast


ingredients:
- 1 pack shrimp paste
- 4 slices of bread
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 4 tbsp or more bread crumbs
- 1 tbsp or more roasted sesame seeds

1. Stir the shrimp paste until turn to sticky paste.

2. Cut the bread for four pieces.

3. Mix the bread crumbs and roasted sesame seeds together.

4. Put the shrimp paste on the bread.

5. Coat each shrimp bread with beaten egg.

6. Coat the the shrimp bread with the bread crumbs.

7. Preheat the air fryer to 340F.

8. Bake the shrimp bread for 10 mins.  Flip over at the half way.

grandma's recipes fried rice


ingredients:
- 6 bowls cooked rice, (3 mugs of uncooked rice)
- around 450g / 1 lb ground beef, or other meat, or ham
- 2 tsp garlic powder, optional
- 2 tsp onion powder, optional
- 4 tsp oyster sauce
- 2 tsp fish sauce or maggi seasoning or soy sauce
- 2 tsp cooking wine, depends on which meat to use
- 2 tsp corn starch
- 2 tsp sesame oil, optional
- 4 tsp oatmeal (for ground meat only), optional
- 6 eggs, beated
- 4 tsp fish sauce or maggi seasoning or soy sauce, for eggs
- 1 onion, chopped, optional
- 4 - 6 garlic cloves, minced
- 4 - 8 green onion, chopped
- 2 leaves romaine, chopped

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- 6 bowls of rice (3 mugs uncooked rice)

1. Cook rice.  When done, set it aside.

- around 450g / 1 lb ground beef, or other meat, or ham
- 2 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tsp onion powder
- 4 tsp oyster sauce
- 2 tsp fish sauce or maggi seasoning or soy sauce
- 2 tsp cooking wine
- 2 tsp corn starch
- 2 tsp sesame oil
- 4 tsp oatmeal (for ground meat only), optional

2. Marinate meat with garlic powder, onion powder, oyster sauce, fish sauce or maggi seasoning or soy sauce, cooking wine, corn starch, sesame oil, and oatmeal.

- 6 eggs, beated
- 4 tsp fish sauce or maggi seasoning or soy sauce, for eggs

3. Mixed egg with fish sauce or maggi seasoning or soy sauce.

- 1 onion, chopped, optional
-  4 - 6 garlic cloves, minced
- 4 - 8 green onion, chopped
- 2 leaves romaine, chopped

4. Start stir fry eggs until 90% cooked, set aside.

5. Stir fry meat, onion, garlic and green onion until almost done, add romaine.  Keep stir fry until meat is ready.  Set aside.

6. Stir fry rice until loose and dry.

7. Add the fried eggs and meat.  Stir fry a little bit more.  Ready to eat.

smoked salmon and ham version

note:  if used smoked salmon or ham (because it's salty), must reduce seasoning.

tuna seaweed pasta


ingredients:
- 4 person portion of spaghetti
- 4 - 6 packs ready to eat seaweed
- 2 tbsp maggi seasoning or soy sauce
- 1 tbsp cooking wine
- 1 tsp japanese dashi powder
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 3 tbsp water
- 2 cans flaked light tuna (skipjack in water)
- black pepper for seasoning

1. Cook spaghetti.

2. Rinse in cold water and set aside.

3. Blend seaweed with maggi seasoning, sugar and water for few sec.

4. Cook the sauce with tuna until it boil, add spaghetti, cook until spaghetti warm to eat.

ref: Korean TV show, Jinny's kitchen Season 2, Ep 5




tuna rice donut (rice pancake)


ingredients:
- 4 bowls of rice (2 mugs uncooked rice)
- 1 carrot, chopped
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 celery, chopped
- 1 green onion, chopped
- 4 eggs
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp mustard powder (optional)
- 3/4 cup Korean pancake mix
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      - 2 tsp salt
      - 1 tsp garlic powder
      - 1 tsp onion powder
      - 1/4 tsp baking soda
      - 1/2 tsp baking powder
      - 1 tbsp tapioca powder (optional)
      - 2 tbsp corn starch
      - 3/4 cup all purpose flour
- 2 cans flaked light tuna (skipjack in water)

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- 4 bowls of rice (2 mugs uncooked rice)

1. Cook rice.  When done, set it aside.

- 1 carrot, chopped
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 celery, chopped
- 1 green onion, chopped

2. Stir fry all the vegetable, season a pint of salt.  When done, set it aside.

- 4 eggs
- 2 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup Korean pancake mix
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      - 2 tsp salt
      - 1 tsp garlic powder
      - 1 tsp onion powder
      - 1/4 tsp baking soda
      - 1/2 tsp baking powder
      - 1 tbsp tapioca powder (optional)
      - 2 tbsp corn starch
      - 3/4 cup all purpose flour

3. When rice and vegetable are cool down a bit, mix with the rest ingredients except tuna.

- 2 cans flaked light tuna (skipjack in water)

4. Add flaked tuna and mix well.

5. Preheat the donuts maker.

6. Use small ice-cream scoop, scoop a full scoop of rice mix in each donut mold, cover the lib and cook for 5 - 6 mins.

7. Ready to eat.  Serve with seaweed, Japanese worcestershire sauce, mayo and ketchup.



ref: Paik's Cooking log, Make pancakes with left over rice, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qioLJwafP8I&list=PLoABXt5mipg6mIdGKBuJlv5tmQFAQ3OYr&index=1&t=104s

Korean stir-fried glass noodles


ingredients:
- 1/2 bag sweet potatoes glass noodles
- 4 cloves minced garlic 
- 1 sliced onion 
- 1 sliced red or yellow bell pepper
- left over chicken soy sauce 

1. Boiling a big pot of water, cook the noodles for 13 mins.

2. After 13 mins, rinse the noodles in cold water.

3. Stir fry the garlic, onion, bell pepper, until cooked.

4. Add chicken soy sauce and until boil.

5. Add glass noodles, keep stirring.  Cook until the glass noodles soak all the sauce.

6. Enjoy it hot or cold.

lip balm, chocolate vanilla favor


ingredients:
- 10 g organic bee wax, more or less
- 5 g organic cocoa butter
- 5 g shea butter
- 4 tsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 capsule vitamin E, optional
- 6 drops organic vanilla essential oil, optional

1. Spray 70% alcohol in the lip balm bottles, splash out the extra alcohol, and leave them aside, until dry.

2. Melt bee wax, cocoa butter and shea butter in stainless steel bowl on coffee warmer.

3. Add olive oil, vitamin E and vanilla essential oil.

4. Stir it and remove from the heat.  Pour the liquid into lip balm bottles. Can fill about 5 to 6 bottles.

Ratio:  
- 3 part liquid oil
- 1 part solid butter
- 1 part bee wax
- 5 to 6 drops essential oil, optional
-  few drop vitamin oil, optional

stream eggs with silver fishes

ingredients:
- around 80 g silver fishes (or called noodle fishes)
- 1 tsp cooking wine
- 1 tsp maggi sauce (or soy sauce) for stir fry silver fishes
- a tint of ground white pepper (or black pepper)
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 tsp salt or maggi sauce (or soy sauce) for eggs
- 3 eggs weight X 1.5 hot water (by weight)

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- around 80 g silver fishes (or called noodle fishes)
- 1 tsp cooking wine
- 1 tsp maggi sauce (or soy sauce) for stir fry silver fishes
- a tint of ground white pepper (or black pepper)

1. Use 3% salt water to defrost silver fishes.  Rinse it and use paper towel to pad them dry.

2. Stir fry silver fishes for 20 sec., add cooking wine and maggi.

3. Keep stir it until dry up the sauce.

4. Remove from the heat, add ground pepper to the silver fishes, and set it aside.

5. Boil 1" of water in a big pot with streamer rack. (the streamer rack must be hight enough that the stainless steel bowl bottom can't touch the water)

6. Coat some oil in the stainless steel bowl.

- 3 eggs
- 1/2 tsp salt or maggi sauce (or soy sauce) for eggs
- 3 eggs weight X 1.5 hot water (by wieght)

7. Beat well the eggs with salt or maggi sauce in the bowl.

8. Add silver fishes in the egg, and mix it well.

9. Slowly add the hot water to the egg, but don't cook it.  Mis well.

10. When the pot of water is boiling, turn to medium low heat, add the stream eggs with silver fishes, cover with lid but not completely.  Stream for 8 mins.

11. Shake gently to check the stream egg is ready or not.  If not ready, keep cooking every 2 mins until done.  (Once it done, the middle of the stream egg will look like pudding.)

12. Serve and enjoy.

ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FceRX78e5P4&list=PLidVuG7bK6Y8h0EnAfNL0eChw7TfhU6VR&index=70