Mandu making

We spent the last moments of Christmas preparing for mandu filling and spent the day after Christmas eating mandu for lunch and dinner.  Last year, we started the tradition of making mandu for the Korean new year. But pregnant lady was craving mandu big time so all the elves in our family got to work, including husband for the first time. Turns out he's better in making mandu than I am! No mandu-making is complete without reading 손 큰 할머니의 만두 만들기 by In-Sun Chae and illustrated by Uk-bae Lee who wrote Sori's Harvest Moon Day which is very cheap on Amazon right now. It's an amusing  story about a grandmother who makes mandu every new year with and for the forest animals. This year, she makes so much that it's bigger than a house and the animals and the grandma have to figure out a way to make mandu efficiently.

If you're in the mood for mandu, my mandu recipe is in the archives under "recipes." Can you believe that after having two voracious eaters, my youngest turned up his nose at the mandu? Even though I was an extremely picky child, I loved mandu. Oh well, more for me.