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
  or replace by:
      - 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