How to Feed a Friend

What's great about pancakes is that no matter how hungry your friend might feel, you could always make more and more until he or she gets satisfied.








Ingredients:

1.An egg
2.Wheat Flour (Or mixed with white flour)
3.Onions (important; giving a great taste)
4.Garlic & ginger
5.Other vegetables (such as potatoes, carrots, and green peppers)
6.Seasonings (for me, including salt, black pepper, kumin seeds, chilly powder,curry powder, and sesame seeds)

Step 1

Talk your friend into cutting vegetables for you...
And cut ginger, garlic and Onions into small pieces.

Cut potatoes, carrots, and green peppers into small pieces.
(In order to save time while cooking, the smaller the potato pieces are, the better.)

Step 2

Break one egg. Mix it with water and wheat flour.

If the liquid could form a line as the picture shows, the texture should be good.

Step 3

Add salt, black pepper, kumin seeds, chilly powder, curry powder, and sesame seeds.

(The amount of salt depends on how many pancakes you make. Personally, I put 2tbsp for 4 pancakes.)

Step 4

Add vegetables and stir.

Step 5

Use medium heat to preheat the pan for one minute or two.

Step 6

Pour 1 1/2 tbsp oil and spread it over the pan. Let the oil heat for around 30 seconds.

Step 7

Pour the mixture into the pan and use a spoon to flatten it.

Step 8

After the outside ring changes its color, lift the edge, and make sure the pancake does not stick to the pan.

Step 9

Lift the pancake to see whether the bottom get cooked (become crispy).

Step 10

Flip it over when the bottom gets slightly burnt. (Or do it earlier if you don't like slightly-burnt pancakes.)

Step 11

When both sides become cooked, you can take the first pancake out, and start the second one.

Step 12

Change to a lower heat, add oil, and repeat the previous procedure.
(If you want to cook more quickly, and do not mind making your pancakes a little bit more burnt, feel free to cook over medium heat. But sometimes it does happen that the pancake outside becomes too hard while the inside tastes a little bit raw.)

Here they are! Four pancakes!

If made well, the pancakes would taste soft inside with its outside part slightly crispy.
Salty. Onions got fried with the hot oil. Oh god, it's yummy.



And don't forget your friend, who may sit at the table, watching you and waiting...

If Making Pizza is Easy to me, it Can't be Difficult to you

My List of Ingredients:

For the Dough:

1.Wheat& White Flour (Or just wheat or white)
2.An Egg
3.Milk (Water will do as well)
4.Vegetabel Oil (If you have olive oil, go for it)
5.Honey (You can choose suger instead)
6.Salt
7.1/2 tbsp Baking soda/powder (Actually you can give it up if you don't have, but be sure to make the dough into a very thin layer, and be sure to use at least one egg.)

For the Topping:

1.Tomato Sause
2.Mozzarella cheese (And any other cheese you prefer)
3.Vegetables (Onions are important, and I like to add garlic and ginger,too)
4.Pineapple trunks (You HAVE TO add them if you can! Good with spicy flavor)
5.Seasonings (My list inlcudes crushed red pepper, kumin seeds, black pepper and salt)

STEP 1

Mix egg, milk, oil (2 tbsp), and honey (2 tbsp for me )

STEP 2

Put wheat flour, white four, salt(3 tbsp for me) and baking soda (1/2 or 1 tbsp) into a bowl, and shake.
(PS. You could try adding black pepper in this step.I haven't tried yet, but I will.)

STEP 3

Pour the liquid mixture into the dry ingredients. Stir and knead until the dough is not sticky. (In order to make it less sticky, you could try leaving it for 5 minutes. It also becomes more smooth).

STEP 4

Sprinkle some flour over the plate on which you are going to put your pizza base.

STEP 5

Flatten your dough into a thin layer. Make the base edge extra thin.

STEP 6

Sprinkle cheese around the edge.

STEP 7

Fold the edge over the cheese.

STEP 8

Spread tomato sause on the pizza base.

STEP 9

Cut vegetables and mix them with spices like crushed red pepper, black pepper, salt, kumin seeds, etc. (Personally, I like to make the vegetables salty and spicy. Vegetables could include onions, green peppers, tomatos, potatos, sweet potatos, cauliflowers, or anything based on your personal taste.)

STEP 10

Add your vegetbables on the base. Press them with a spoon.

STEP 11

Add Mozzarella cheese and pineapple trunks on top.

STEP 12

Preheat the oven and put the pizza in for 40 minutes.
After it's done, take it out, cut it in 4 or 6 pieces, and taste it. The pineapples would add a sweet and sour taste to the salty and spicy vegetables beneath.
The taste combined makes me wanna...well, why don't you have a try?

I was Trying to Make an egg Pancake

Friday noon, I suddenly felt like making an egg pancake, and I decided to make it in a new way I learned from Gordon Ramsay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wj-T_PIEGY&index=1&list=WL
The old method was to mix everything together, and then pour them all into the pan. However, this time, I decided to try adding the egg&flour mixture later. The differences were that I did not need to cut potatos in very tiny pieces and try so hard to make the texture right. And most of all, the inside part of the pancake would have

much more flavor.

So I began. The only things I could find in my fridge were potatos, squash, milk, and eggs. But if you are cooking, you certainly could add whatever vegetables and meat you like, as long as they go with each other.


MY RECIPE

Step One: Cut onions, garlic, potatos, squash into small pieces.

Step Two: Break two eggs into a bowl and stir them well. Then add milk, wheat flour, and black pepper& salt, and stir.

Step Three: Stir-fry Garlic & Onions with Potatos & Squash. Add spices like cumin seeds, red pepper,black pepper,and curry power. Add half tea spoon of suger and appropriate amount of salt based on your personal taste. Add several spoons of water when it becomes too dry.

Step Four: When you feel that the oil on the bottom is almost over, add the milk,egg& flour mixture slowly into the pan.

Step Five (Crucial!): Unlike making other pancakes in which we only spread a thin layer over the pan, the egg pancake here is quite thick. So in order to make a perfect pancake, we need to put it in an oven for around 30 minutes. It will turn out like this:

However, if nobody is around you and you will eat whatever you make alone, I think you may consider skip the last step. Cover the pan with a lid, and wait for around 10 more minutes for the eggs to be (mostly) cooked. And when you eat, it looks like this:

Should I say, it tasted even better?  Okay, I know, my recipe is for the laziest. But It doesn't look that bad.