Keroro March, Endive, and a Breakfast of Comfort

20210124 Wash your car with great effort, and it rains. Go on a picnic, and a shower rolls in. Rush to catch a bus, and it's headed the wrong way. Get to a crosswalk, and the light's always red just as you arrive. Dear pOOOOOO, so the LG Electronics stock you sold jumped 30,000 won right after you sold it, and it stung? I get how upsetting it must feel to wonder, 'Why does this only happen to me?' LG Electronics' share price has been swinging wildly since the company announced it would soon make a major decision about its smartphone business. But even if you'd known this was coming, there's no way to have known in advance whether it would move the stock up or down. In any case, LG's mobile division has now posted losses for 23 straight quarters. Since the position is already closed, maybe it's best not to look back, and instead turn an eye toward overseas markets. Institutional investors like the National Pension Service already hold a higher share of overseas assets, and by 2023 that ratio (overseas to domestic stocks) is expected to reach about 2:1. And if you're investing for the long haul, the outlook only gets better. Endive is supposed to help with digestion as well as blood pressure, which makes it a good match for an upset stomach. And when you wrap its slight bitterness in salty ham and pile on nutty cheese? Today's breakfast is a French dish called Endives au Jambon. Take a look at this and cheer up~ Bon courage! -Heat olive oil in a pan and sear the prettiest endive in the world on both sides. -Whisk flour, egg, and milk with salt and pepper, then fry into thin crepes. -Lay ham on a crepe, place the endive on top, sprinkle with parmesan, and roll it up loosely. -Pour the cream sauce (made ahead) into a baking dish, nestle the endive-filled crepes in side by side, and top with Gruyère cheese. -Bake at 180°C for 20 minutes, then finish with pepper pepper pepper and a scatter of parsley~ --- #Shall I make you some breakfast? A daughter is down because she worked up the courage to raise her hand and speak up in class, only to be met with laughter. Her mother tells her: 'Congratulations. That's another point toward your failure tally.' She strokes her daughter's small head. 'Once your failure points add up, you get to request tonight's menu. I'll make whatever you like.' — Natsu Miyashita, #LetsMakeTurtleSoup If something bad happened to you today, and your own failure points have been piling up, I think that even though you can't actually taste it, just looking at a breakfast you'd want for yourself might be a small comfort. Especially since, for most office workers, even having breakfast at all feels like an impossible dream. Send me the breakfast you'd like by DM, and Na-Joshik will make it for you. Example: 'Please make carrot rapé!' Oh, and if you have a reference image, feel free to send that along too — after all, this will be a breakfast you eat with your eyes.