FTB

Breakfast has always been a challenge for me…cause it’s boring and usually complicated with a TON of dishes and pans required.

I am inherently the laziest of cooks there is. If I can use a knife, plate or bowl more than once (safely of course) well it’s a done deal.

give me dinner for breakfast

I will always side with savoury over sweet, so dinner thrown in a pan in place of any traditional breakfast is A-OK with me. Until now.

This recipe challenges millions of years (slight exaggeration) of internet posts stating what a breakfast should be. Shakshuka (eggs baked in a savoury tomato sauce) made everyone sit up a little straighter and take notice and now there’s this Yachaejeon (vegetable pancake).

Having just got these amazing farm fresh eggs (actually from chickens I saw with my own eyes) I found myself deep down the rabbit hole of YouTube searching the very vague term ‘egg recipes’.

30 years of actively pursuing all recipes of all kinds and I only have a handful of breakfast go-to’s and they are usually for entertaining.

the egg volcano

I got wayyyy off the beaten path and found a cool recipe that involved fried rice and silky, twisted eggs. Which I plan to revisit when I have the patience to twirl my eggs with chopsticks.

In the related videos below the volcano I found inspiration.

Yachaejeon (vegetable pancake)

Here was this ageless adorable human being, MAANGCHI, talking about springtime and vegetables.

5.3 million users can’t be wrong. I’m hooked. Maangchi demonstrates Korean cooking and she’s fun to watch.

honorary Korean

The Koreans get it. Savoury not sweet. I would like to be accepted as an honorary Korean please and thank you.

feel good, easy food, one pan

This is my jam. Who doesn’t want to make their life easier and cut down on the vegetables that get thrown out at the end of the week.

Yes you intended on filling all your plates 3/4 with veg but guess what – life happened and your vegetables waited too long. Oh well. Don’t beat yourself up.

This recipe alone will keep anyone’s veggies from sadness.

I couldn’t stop eating it

Very rarely do I hit it out of the park on the first go around of recipe trials.

Especially when I veer off from the original recipe on my own tangent.

But it happened, and after I tried it I immediately wrote down everything I did, all the way through so it wouldn’t get cast off into the land of recipe one offs I can’t duplicate exactly. Yes, it’s THAT good.

There were a lot of words that needed to be said for this recipe so I decided to split the 2 posts up.

Recipe can be found here.

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