Pancakes with maple syrups on top

Do you have any memorable experience with hotcakes?

Do you like hotcakes? I guess my readers maybe have more often eaten it than me. Anyway, I have a good experience with it. In my primary school years, my friend’s mom made me hotcakes and I ate it for the first time in my life. That’s when I first came to know this food but soon I forgot it. It didn’t impress me that strongly. I just felt it was like one kind of cake or bread. And then, in the winter of 2008, when I first went to United States, I visited one authentic traditional restaurant. It was a brunch restaurant. They served mashed potato, scrambled egg and hotcakes as brunch menu. At the moment the hotcakes left me very deep impression. I think it was because of not only the taste of the hotcakes but also because of the posh and gorgeous US traditional brunch meal itself. After that, around 2016, I visited one hotcakes restaurant in Apgujeong area of Seoul and ate authentic American style hotcakes again. Now I feel hotcakes is quiet familiar to me by now. Sometimes there are times I really want to eat it.

My self-challenge to make homemade hotcake

After I started to work at home, I started to actively cook and tried making hotcakes for the first time by purchasing hotcake mix. I thought it would be difficult to make but actually, the recipe was pretty easy and simple so I was little bit shocked. All I needed was milk, eggs, and mix powder. You can add maple syrups on the pancakes as well which is really good combination! Also you can drink a cup of milk or coffee as a brunch enjoying happiness of the moment. I think it’s better to eat soon right after pancakes is made than eat the cooled pancake, because the hot pancakes is tastier.

Korean pancake, Hotteok

Whenever I eat hotcakes, I wonder when you guys usually eat hotcakes. If you have a good memory with hotcakes, please leave a comment. I appreciate it. I know hotcakes originally came from America, right? I don’t know exactly it is true or not, but I guess so. By the way, In South Korea there is a street food called Hotteok. It’s literally street food. Some street vendors make and sell it on the street. But recently I could more scarcely see Hotteok-selling vendors. Instead, now we can easily buy Hotteok mix powder at the mart. Hotteok is kind of Korean pancakes. But it’s stuffed with brown sugar which is different from American hotcakes. After putting quiet much oil on the frying pan, turn on the heat and heat the pan and after about a minute, you can start to bake the Korean pancake, Hotteok. Then brown sugar in the Hotteok melts inside which makes its unique taste. These days, people also put seeds with brown sugar in it. Alright, then maybe you already know, but I will introduce how to make pancakes, anyway!

Recipe

Preparation (1 serving)

2 eggs, Milk 200ml, hotcake powders 4–500g

1. Put oil on the frying pan and turn on the medium heat

2. Put 2 eggs, 200ml of milk and 4–500g of hotcake powders into a bowl and mix it well.

3. Put the mixture on the frying pan and heat it for about 5 minutes and flip the hotcake.

4. Bake the hotcake for 5 minutes and reduce heat to low heat and bake it 5 minutes more (You can adjust minutes as you want)

5. You can make 2 hotcakes by these ingredients.

Good side dish music

1. Climb every mountain — The Tabernacle Choir

2. A child is born — Bill Evans

3. Mylin — Make it on my own

4. Hilary Duff — So Yesterday

5. Mandy Moore — Candy

6. Mandy Moore — Walk me home

7. Joe — All the things (Your man won’t do)

People’s music recommendation

If you add a comment for your own recommendation songs, I will be appreciate it. And if you don’t mind, could I add your songs with my list too? Also please share your precious memory with pancakes or hotcakes. TIA (Thanks in advance)!