Let's cook "Banana Pancake."

This picture is a Banana Pancake cooked by me!! I didn't use ready-made pancake flour, so it's totally healthy pancake. Also, I added just a little bit of olive oil-it's not high calorie at all. Why don't you try to cook my recipe? Let's get to start!!

《　Ingredients　》 for person

◇1cup all-purpose flour(I recommend you to use organic flour)

◇3 teaspoon baking powder                                                       

◇1 egg

◇1 teaspoon olive oil or grape-seed oil

◇a pinch of salt

◇300ml milk

◇1 teaspoon vanilla extract

◇3 teaspoon plain yogurt

◆1 ripe banana or unripe banana

Mix all ingredients well except ◆banana. Then prepare ripe or unripe banana(It's your choice that you like sweet one or not.) and cut it into a little thin.

Preheat flying pan and bake pancake to any size you want. Put two or three cut banana on it while you are baking half side of pancake. From here, bake pancake as you usually do.

After you are all done, put a little of maple syrup on pancake and put butter on it as well.

That's all !! It's pretty easy, huh!? I know that looks too much preparation but you have only to mix all ingredients!!

There are many ways to enjoy eating this pancake. Eat it  without maple syrup-banana becomes sweeter after heating.   OR If someone who don't like sweet one, you can put apple on pancake instead of banana. You are able to create your own pancake.

I hope you can enjoy with this!!

Good fortune!!

 From 1:00 to 4:00, I spent my time in a Starbucks while my bf was working. As you can see a picture, this Starbucks is my favorite because all clerks are very thoughtful. In reality, some clerks who work for fast-food restaurant or coffee shop treat international people bad. Whenever I stop by here, I can see they love to talk with customers happily. Well, today's my drink choice was Strawberry lemonade smoothie and I paid $3,50 for it. (I thought that It seems like more expensive than usual.)  It happened suddenly after buying a juice. One of clerks came to my table in a hurry, and she gave me a ticket which you can see in a photo. In fact, she charged me wrong price. That's why she gave it to me. This tickets is for customer who is charged by clerk wrong price and is able to order any kinds of coffee and size for a time. I feel like I got this free coffee tickets by good fortune. I'm really looking forward to buying a coffee with this ticket next time.  I can't choose one coffee!!!!!!!

This was my bf and my lunch today. It's a Makizushi is Japan's traditional sushi. Provably, some of you know  California roll. If you  know what it is, this is one kind of it. Actually, it's a my original Makizushi, so you can't see the same sushi as this picture  in Japan. However, It's true that looking is very much alike to real Makizushi!! It looks so so, but taste was perfect!!

Girl's talking~***

At last, my bf, David, hosted the party for one of our friend's couple!! I did not go to a party for a while, so I was extremely excited. I and David prepared some appetizers such as Bul-gogi which is one of Korean's most popular sweet beef dish, flavor beers, Korean's traditional alcohol, and American snack. At first, there were four people including David and me in the party, but five more people, all of whom are American, came over our house later on. It was getting a noisy gathering eventually and I was really sorry for making noise to next-door.....  It was a so much fun actually!!

BECAUSE I overjoyed that I was able to have girl's talking with my girlfriends, but I can not tell you what we were talking about!!  Girl's talking kkk

Well...  I have nothing to write today-sorry for viewers. I'm about to go to bed☆

The bottom of lefft side picture called Jap-chae is what I tried to cook today.

Perhaps some of you don't know what it is, so let me first introdice about Jap-chae.

Jap-chae   is a stire-fried dish that conbines noodle made from a starch of a sweet potato, various vegetable, and thinly slices beef. There is usually carrots, green onions, spinach, shiitake mushrooms, and green peppers inside. It's a little bit chewy texture.

Well... let's get to start!!

I gotta tell you why I took on a challenge to Korean food. To tell the trueth, my boyfriend Daivid is Korean. That's why I try to cook Krean food lately. Jap-che, which I cooked, is kind of popular Korean food in Japan and the best cooking website among housewife called COOKPAD, which has a variety of recipe from general public's posting, is very helpful more than you'll ever know-I've been great fun of Cookpad since one of my friends told me. I found Jap-chae recipe from there

,but there are a large number of Jap-chae recipe. I was so confused which recipe is closer to real Krean food because most recipes are posted by Japanse. It's a little bit hard to find a recipes posted by Korean, but I found a interesting one posted by one housewife whose husband is Korean. To make my bf happy, I decided to use her recipe!!

It was actually first time for me to cook Jap-chae for my bf, and I was pretty nervous about how he gives me a commet...　(I was cooking before two hours he comes back) 

I had to prepare so many ingredients like above explanation. Therefore, it freaked me out seriously because it took a one hour and half or almost two hours. Look at the result of my cooking below.

It looks excellent!! BUT... according to David "You did well for the first time, but boiled noodle too much. I give you 60% point." How strict grader, he is. Anyways, I'll give 100% point for myself!!

＊*★Coming-age-of-ceremony★*＊

*HAPPY COMING-AGE-OF-CEREMONY*

Oops......  I totally forgot to introduce myself !!  Well, let me introduce about ME lightly!! As I wrote down on profile, I'm Jung Anna which is my nickname from my bf. I'm from Japan, Hokkaido, which is located in the north of Japan, has often snowy weather in winter, and is seriously cold area. My age is ..... can you guess my age!? You will know it pretty soon!!                    

Today is a really important day for people who are twenty years old of both sexes because there is a big event of Japan, which is called Coming-age-of-ceremony, each local regions. All twenty years old people are admited legally by the nation as an adult. therefor, after ceremony, they are all treated as an adult in a bar or some places in which you need a ID.  For this ceremony, most girls beautifully dress up with Kimono, which is a Japan's traditional cloth, and the other put on a suit. Guys also, some dress up with Kimono and another put on a suit as well.

Did you understand by my explanation what Coming-age-of-ceremony is !? Was it too cutdown explanation by any chance...? I hope you guys will understand even a little bit.

You might think a little bit why I'm writing about this.  I'm supposed to take part in this ceremony today, so...  I'm twenty years old. BUT, unfortunatelly, Coming-age-of-ceremony is already over. I was really looking forward to taking part in it from when I was a little, but I'm now in America.  What a pity I am.... kkk  I'm joking !     Althogh I'm not able to join this ceremony with my friends, I had already taken a piture of it dressing up my mom's precioius Kimono when I went back to Japan.

If anyone who takes interested in what coming age of ceremony is, you gotta chack it out though a internet and look for picture of it.  They are all beautiful.