Carrot-Banana Cake.

Ingredients (in the order of appearance):

• 3-ish super ripe bananas
• 6 oz of oil (8oz, of course, is a regular-sized cup in the US, so that’s 0.75 of a cup)
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1.5 cups flour (I made flour by blending oatmeal in the blender; it worked wonderfully)
• 1 tsp of salt
• 1.5 tsp of baking soda
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• grated carrots: between 0.75 to 1.5-ish cups <– Usually grated while waiting for the oven to preheat to 350.
• poppy seeds (optional)
• dried cranberries/raisins/whatever (optional)

1. In a mixing bowl, pour the oil over the bananas and sugar and mash until they’re acceptably unchunky-ish. (I don’t have an electric mixer, so I get a little lazy and leave some small banana chunks. The resulting bread tastes fine.)
2. Add the eggs and mash that in too.
3. Stir in the flour, salt, and baking soda, and stir in until the clumps are gone. Adding flour a little at a time while stirring the mixture makes the process go a little faster.
4. Add the cinnamon and stir into the mixture. This is a separate step and not part of step 3 only because you might enjoy seeing the cinnamon swirl around in the mixture. Or not. I am easily amused.
5. Add those grated carrots and mix it up some more.
6. Add the poppy seeds and cranberries if you like.
7. Bake at 350 for, like, 40-ish minutes or so, until you poke a hole in the center of the bread with a chopstick and it comes out clean. (I use a chopstick… what do families in non-chopstick households use?)

Korean Bulgogi marinade.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 cup of soy sauce
• 0.5 cup lemon-lime soda <– acid softens meat, sweetness makes it taste good.
• 0.75 cups cooking wine
• 0.75 cups water
• 1 tb sesame seeds, if you like that stuff
• 1 tb red pepper flakes
• 1 tb sesame oil!
• a kiwi
• 1 chopped up onion
• lots and lots of chopped up garlic

Mix. Marinate. It’s not that hard. I’m told the marinating process could take two days, although I suspect if you left it overnight or prepped it before going to work, that should work as well.