Die, essays! Die~!
I’ve been flat out with my studies, so haven’t really had much time for cooking or blogging, poor me 
So, in the meantime, I’ve got a recipe from my mom to tide you through till I return! This is divine, and traditionally eaten with lettuce - you get a lettuce leaf, put a spoonful of cooked rice in the middle, then a piece of the pork, then wrap it up and eat it! The lettuce is handy for a few reasons - it adds a vegetable element to this dish, as well as helping to balance out the chilli in this dish as it is veeeery spicy (well, not to me as I’ve been eating chilli dishes since I was 3, but to anyone not quite as desensitised as me it’ll burn just a little!).
The red is not from any filter or mucking around with the photo - the pork really is this red!
Ingredients
1kg pork belly, sliced reasonably thin (usually about 5mm)
5 tbsp caster sugar
5 tbsp korean chilli paste (gotchujjang)
1 tbsp garlic
1/2 onion, grated
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp sesame oil
To Serve
Cooked rice
Lettuce (we usually use red or green oak lettuce, but it’s fine with iceberg or red coral)
1. Mix together all ingredients and marinate the pork for a few hours, or overnight if you can.
2. Heat a non-stick frying pan or grill, place the pork on and cook till the meat is well done.
3. Serve with rice and lettuce leaves to make wraps 
So there you go - quick and easy! It might be a bit of a struggle to find the korean chilli paste, but you should be able to find it at most Chinese or Korean grocery stores
This is the arrangement of a lettuce wrap known as ’ssam’ in Korean - an open lettuce leaf, a smal spoonful of rice, some ‘namul banchan’ (root/stringy vegetable side dishes), a spoonful of gochujjang (Korean chilli paste) and the pork!
Once everything has been placed in the lettuce leaf, it is then carefully wrapped like so and eaten up in one or two bites - delicious, and a guaranteed way of getting the kids to devour half a head of lettuce on their own!
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Comments
Lisa It’s a very pretty shade of red! Sounds yummy, even for someone like me who can’t even handle black pepper. heheee
I remember the essay days.. I feel for ya sweetie! Good luck =)
Now what is going on with the comments on my blog? Can you tell me what’s happening? Better yet can you email me with what’s going on? lamiacucina67@gmail.com
*Hugs*
Ellie Hehehe, cheers gals, I shall continue to strive on - the power of positive thinking! If only life were really as easy as “I think I can” 
Lis, the middle column of the blog wasn’t appearing at all, but it’s back up now - I think I’ll have to speak to my ISP after I hand everything in and see what’s going on as it’s been funny with a few websites (my own included!)
Beautiful! And you kick the asses of those essays!!!