Cong You Bing

Last week I made onion pancakes with my friend D, an Italian assistant who lives in the town where I teach. It was my second attempt, and this time I actually looked up a recipe (turns out they are made from dough, not batter! Oops).

Pretty successful, I would say! Considering I used a roll of aluminum as a rolling pin. Next time I would make sure to only use the green part of the green onion, so that I can roll out the dough thinner and not worry about the bits of onion sticking out and breaking the pastry. And less salt. In general I need to become better at realizing how salty salt is.

I also made questionable borscht this week, because I am still trying to get rid of a head of red cabbage I bought like two weeks ago. All I can say about my borscht though, is that it turns out it is not poisonous.