Pumpkin Spice Yakisoba Pancake

I’ve made a lot of mistakes in life. This is one of them.

Here’s what you will need:

• Dried pasta or noodle
• Pancake Spice Pancake mix (Can be substituted with choice pancake mix)
• Choice of meat and vegetables for yakisoba
• Garlic
• Sriracha Mayonnaise
• Carrot Cake Jam

Start off by boiling and straining noodles. Then prepare pancake batter based on either box instructions or external recipe.

Pan fry garlic, choice meats and choice vegetables.

Pan-frying Chicken and Hash browns

Once ingredients are fully cooked, add in noodles and desired sauces and seasonings for yakisoba.

Yakisoba

Add in pancake batter. It is recommended to cover pan to allow the pancake to fully cook.

Add in pancake batter

After 7-8 minutes, flip pancake and cover again.

Flip pancake

Allow pancake to cook for another 5 minutes. Then plate and add Sriracha Mayonnaise and Carrot Cake Jam.

Sriracha Mayonnaise and Carrot Cake Jam

Generally speaking, I am able to completely finish everything that I cook. This recipe was not the case. The carrot cake jam turned out incompatible with the mayonnaise. The clash of the two flavors did not leave me with a pleasant experience. Sriracha mayonnaise definitely does not belong on a sweet pancake like this. This mistake of a recipe rates at 3/10 as it was inedible.

Squid Ink Yakisoba Donut Hotdog

For my first recipe on this blog, I think it is only natural to post my signature dish.

Here’s what you will need:

• Squid Ink Spaghetti (Any kind of noodle like thing would probably work)
• Your choice of meat – For this post I used chicken sausage
• Your choice of vegetables – I used some ugly carrots, but follow your heart!
• Onion, Garlic and stuff
• Soy sauce
• 1 Long Donut, Google search tells me that they’re actually called Long Johns
• Hotdog/Sausage/Long piece of meat of your choice

First start with the noodle aspect of the dish. Heat up some water to boil the noodles. Boil them for approximately 5 minutes.

Boiled and strained spaghetti

Next, cut up all of the other ingredients for the stir-fry. In a well oiled and heated pan, stir-fry the ingredients.

Cook everything in a pan

Add in the noodles, soy sauce and any additional sauces to the noodles.

Completed Stir-Fry topped with parsley

In another heated and oiled pan, pan fry the donut. The goal is to toast the donut. If a small toaster oven is available, consider using that instead. There is a high possibility that the caramel or frosting will melt and burn in the pan.

Pan Fry Donut

Heat up the sausage.

Cooked Sausage

Now everything is fully cooked, so begin assembling the dish. First, cut a slit in the donut where the hotdog will go. Cutting from the side is suggested as there will be more room later on when adding the noodles.

Turn the donut into a hotdog bun

Put the sausage in the slit.

Hotdog in the handcrafted bun

Note that the dish is based loosely on the Japanese Yakisoba-pan. As such, add the noodles to the top of the hotdog. Top the dish with desired toppings. The example uses Japanese mayonnaise, spicy mustard and roughly chopped chives.

Squid Ink Yakisoba Donut HotDog

Overall, I rate this dish at a solid 7/10. The biggest issue was that I had attempted to fit in too much noodles into my makeshift bun. It was very messy to eat. However, I would definitely consider making this again for myself.