OKONOMIYAKI

A recipe by Kyoko Haibara

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Total cooking time: 20 minutes

Ingredients
2 cup all purpose flour (okonomiyaki flour)
1 1/4 cup dashi soup stock or water
4-6 eggs
1 cabbage
6 tbsps chopped green onion
2/3 cup tenkasu (tempura flakes)
12 - 18 strips of thinly sliced pork or beef

For toppings:
Green seaweed
Okonomiyaki sauce (or tonkatsu sauce)
Mayonnaise

Preparation:
Pour dashi soup stock in a bowl. Mix the flour in the soup stock.
Rest the batter for an hour in the refrigerator. Chop cabbage finely.
Take about 1/2 cup of the batter
(to make one batch of okonimiyaki) in another bowl.
Mix chopped cabbage (about 1/4 lb), chopped
green onion (about 1 tbsp), and tempura flakes
(about 2 tbsps) in the batter.

Make a hole in the middle of the batter and add an egg in the hole.
Stir the batter.
Heat an electric pan and oil slightly.
Pour the batter into the pan. Fry meat or your choice of toppings on the side.
Cook for 5-7 minutes and place meat (toppings) on top of the okonomiyaki.
Flip the okonomiyaki and cook for 5-7 more minutes.
Flip the okonomiyaki again and spread okonomiyaki sauce and mayonnaise on top.

Sprinkle green seaweed over the sauce.
Sprinkle dried bonito (bonito flakes) and beni-shoga (red ginger) (optional)
Serve.

Itadaki maasu!

Made in Dagenham (Movie review)

“Made in Dagenham” is the drama based on a true story in 1960’s. It is about a group of women who works for the huge Ford Company where they do not have appropriate working conditions and go on strike to have an equal pay as men have. The main characters Rita O'Grady (Sally Hawkins) and Connie (Geraldine James) change the story of their lives between their household life and the battle with their employers.

The girls work in a tight place where they are responsible to make the car seats. One day Rita and Connie join Albert to have a meeting with Ford’s representatives to discuss the woman’s salary. The result of the discussion is unsuccessful; as a consequence the girls make a boycott that means stopping the manufacture affecting all the process to car assembly. From this moment they start to have a lot of important protests reaching their objective, an increment of their salary. Their efforts help to get equal conditions in UK.

We would recommend this film to all cinema goers because of its well-made quality. It shows a real history about the development of the women in the UK society and how important to listen to our heart, follow our dreams making effort to succeed.

Written by Anastasia, Andrea, Mitsugi.

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I would love to see some international recipes posted here. We have so many wonderful, impromptu international lunches when we all go 'mmmmmmm!' repeatedly, while tasting the many different dishes on offer from diverse countries. So, let's have them please!

Below I have posted some photos of Miyuki's delicious sushi which she prepared for her graduation day lunch.