Oatmeal Cookies

Hi! So today's recipe is this delicious soft oatmeal cookies that is quite easy to make. This is not the type of cookie that you can shape the dough with cookie cutter, because when it's not cold, it melts.

Ingredients:
3 cups cooking oats
1 cup (250gr) butter
1.5 cups white sugar
2 cups self raising flour (or 2 cups plain flour + 1 tsp baking soda)
2 eggs
3-5 tbsp honey
approx 1/4 - 1/3 cup raisins (you can add more or less depending on your taste, you can change it with chocolate chips too)
pinch of salt
15-18 almonds, chop coarsely

How to:
1. Soften the butter, then cream it together with sugar (pour the sugar gradually).
2. Crack the eggs, put in honey and raisins, also a pinch of salt, stir well.
3. Add the cooking oats gradually while mixing it. Mix well.
4. Add the flour gradually. Mix well.
5. Cover the batter with plastic wrap tightly (Until the plastic touches the batter completely).
6. Chill in fridge and leave it for at least 1 hour.
7. Spoon the batter and shape it into a flat round shape (or a ball, they're gonna melt and becomes round anyway).
8. Sprinkle the top of the raw cookie with chopped almonds
9. Bake in 200 degrees Celcius for 12-15 minutes (depends on your oven)
10. When they're just come out from the oven, they are really soft, so be careful not to smash them when picking them up.

Tips and Trick:
- Wet your hand and the spoon when you're spooning and shaping the batter, so it won't get sticky.
- I used cupcake baking tray so they form a perfect beautiful round shape.
- It will take approx. 3 almonds to garnish a dozen of cookies, so depends on how many you'll make. I suggest just start chopping every new dozen you shaped, so you won't waste anything.
- If you don't wanna use that much butter, just replace the moist with some milk.

Okonomiyaki

This is actually a Japanese pancake, but changed and adjusted. The real one are using some seafood and mountain yam (also thinly sliced pork belly), but since here in my place, I can't find mountain yam and seafood are expensive (and currently I don't have any pork belly), I just make the vegetable one in my style. :)

Ingredients :
Okonomiyaki batter
3-4 eggs
1/2 carrot, thinly sliced or chopped
approx. 2 cups of sliced/chopped cabbage and leek
2 tbsp plain flour
2 tbsp self-raising flour (you can changed it into 2 more tbsp of plain flour and 1/4 tsp of baking powder)
1 tbsp cornflour
approx. 100 ml pork stock (you can just use water instead)
salt and pepper to taste

Topping Sauce
hint of honey
approx 5 tbsp salty soy sauce

mayonnaise
bbq sauce
Sushi seasoning (you can use chopped spring onion instead)

How To:
1. Sift the flour together, if you don't have sifter you can just mix it thoroughly with fork/whisk.
2. Pour the stock gradually, mix it well.
3. Mix the eggs in. See if it has reach the ideal thickness. It should be slightly less thick than pancake batter.
4. Stir together the cabbage. salt and pepper to taste (if you chopped the carrot, put it inside together to.)
5. Heat the frying pan, spread with some oil. (if you sliced the carrot, stir fry the carrot for a while until they're half-cooked)
6. Pour the okonomiyaki batter to the frying pan, cook it in high heat until golden brown.
7. Flip it over, cook in medium heat while covering it with lid. Cook until golden brown.
8. While waiting fr the Okonomiyaki to be cooked, mix together honey and soy sauce in small bowl.
9. Put the okonomiyaki to large flat plate, spread with the soy sauce mixture.
10. Finish with mayonnaise and bbq sauce. and garnish with sushi seasoning (which contains sesame seeds and crumbed nori, I bought in supermarket)