Korean DIY snack

There are lots of Korean people in New Malden and I've been trying to take advantage of the very interesting looking ingredients in the korean supermarkets.  I even got a Korean cook book from the library!  I recently made Pajon which didn't actually use any unusual ingredients at all but was delicious.

I'm not sure how popular DIY is in Korea, but I reckon they'd have this as a snack.   I kept popping back to the fridge for a piece the day after I made it, inbetween coats of paint in the living room.  You should try it! Don't get paint in the dipping sauce though!

Pajon (Korean pancake)

1. In a large mixing bowl, add 125g flour to 3 large beaten eggs and mix to a stiff paste.
2. Marinade 250g thinly sliced sirloin steak in the marinade (see below) I left it for an hour and that was plenty.
3. Cut up about 15 spring onions into 5cm pieces and split in half if they are really fat ones.
4. Add the spring onions and meat to the pancake batter, it will seem really stiff but mix it with your hand and it goes sloppier.  Add some chopped chillies if you like.
5. Fry ladle fulls  in a pan about 5 mins each side until properly brown.  
6. Serve chopped into squares with the dipping sauce (it is very nice cold too).

Marinade
2 tbsp soy sauce
0.5 tbsp sesame oil
1 clove garlic crushed and chopped
1.2cm bit of ginger peeled and chopped
1/2 tsp toasted sesame seeds
freshly ground pepper


Dipping Sauce (Chojang)
3tbsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp vinegar
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp toasted sesame seeds
1 spring onion finely chopped

a chill wind doth blow

Winter is definitely here and it is the first week I've had the heating on.  I ignored the junk mail advertising new boilers and smugly adjusted the thermostat on my "old faithful" boiler.    The carbon monoxide alarm went off about 24 hours later coinciding with dinner being ready and it being time to go and pick Sadie up!  I wasn't sure who to ring! I put aside wistful visions of firemen coming to my aid.  John the gas man arrived (late) and, after waving his magic stick (that is not a euphemism) at our poor old Potterton Flamingo, pronounced it "dangerous to life and property".   At least I think that's what he said, it was hard to hear over the shrieks of Sadie and Harriet.  I would need a new boiler, he could give me a quote. Were the pound signs flashing in his eyes my imagination?

We had hoped the old thing would hang on until we were ready to renovate the kitchen.  We can't put a new boiler back where the old one is.   John's solution involved removing the oven, some cupboards and most of the floor.  However, thanks to Dad and his super research a better solution has been found via the glow worm boiler website, where I swear I only had 5 goes on the boiler calculator (well I don't get out much).  Now we can nearly put the new boiler where the old one is and can get rid of the water tank in the girls' room.  It will mean running pipes along the outside of the house requiring access from the flats next door so my next project will be winning over the old biddies next door.  Of course I haven't got the quote yet, ripping up the floor might seem an attractive alternative yet.

Next time.......applying lining paper and where not to put the brush