To you who is striving to live your life cherishing your own life
Novelist Gong Ji-young shares 27 life-changing recipes with her daughter, along with super-easy recipes.

Novelist Gong Ji-young has published a book titled "Recipes for My Daughter," which contains 27 super-easy recipes and warm and honest encouragement about life for her daughter, who is trying hard to live each day.
The author shares easy recipes that can be whipped up in 10 to 15 minutes to encourage her daughter as she embarks on a life path that may never go as she wants.
While the dish is being prepared, the author tells us one by one the story of his life, which he lived gratefully while overcoming long periods of life that he felt physically and mentally regretted.
Sometimes she scolds her daughter to face reality, and other times she encourages her to be strong, telling her that she must love herself and share that love with others, and that to do so, she must live bravely, overcoming countless mistakes, failures, and trials.


The author tells us how to take care of our bodies and minds when we are in dire straits: when we are depressed and miserable, when the world feels unfair, when everything is a mess, when we are seeking freedom from money, when we are sick and tired.
They also say that being self-reliant includes making your own food, and that the ability to make your own food is an important factor in maintaining human self-esteem.
In the author's case, he said that when he kept trying to buy something to eat instead of cooking or was lazy, it was because his life condition was low.
It is difficult to get your mind up when you are feeling down, so I recommend that you first take care of your body and get it up.
Taking care of your body is not about getting plastic surgery or wearing extravagant things, but about hanging out with good friends, wearing nice clothes, listening to good music and words, smelling good scents, thinking good thoughts, and most of all, eating good food.


Through "Recipe for Daughters," the author delivers a wonderful message of encouragement to believe in one's own life, a heartfelt plea to never forget that this one moment is your whole life, and warm encouragement to all of us to have a great day together today.
We are all worthy, valuable, and decent people.
This book contains truly solid and special recipes for life that you can only understand after eating the food cooked for you.

Weining, that's how life is.
It's like walking.
Just walk.
Just live in the moment.
Just make that moment the most faithful, the most meaningful, the most beautiful, the most good, the most fun, and the most rewarding.
You can't live your whole life meaningfully, beautifully, kindly, fun, and rewarding.
But 10 minutes can be meaningful, beautiful, good, fun, and rewarding.
Yes, those 10 minutes are the first step to climbing the Himalayas, and life is made up of hundreds of millions of them.
So, just live like that for now.
--- p.27

I need to practice.
Practice keeping your distance.
You have to be silent, speak little, and distance yourself emotionally.
Now, I think that sometimes, moms should do the same to their children who are sometimes misbehaving.
It's a difficult task.
But it is something that must be done.
If you don't, they will become infinitely annoying.
We must realize that we are guilty of allowing it, neglecting it, and even encouraging it.
You are the master of your life.
You can't stand on the street and watch people mock and insult you as they go about their lives.
So, let's cheer up.
--- p.38~39

Dear daughter, Honey Banana, is washing dishes easy? Put the clean dishes back where they belong and let's crack open a book tonight.
Autumn is deepening
Go.
We don't really know how many days are left for Mom, how many days are left for you.
But one thing is certain.
That this moment will never come again.
If you waste this moment, your life will pass by so vainly.
--- p.75

Wining, my mother was once like this.
I hated it.
My eyes, my height, my feet, my voice.
At that time, the whole world hated me.
I can now be sure.
But now my mom doesn't hate me.
He said he loved me and tolerated me, even though I was foolish, always careless, and fickle.
Otherwise, we wouldn't be having such a fun holiday with this kind of soup.
I don't know anymore.
That I love my eyes, my height, my feet, my voice.
And now the whole world loves me.
Nothing is taken for granted.
Just as I lived without knowing how to make this simple spinach soybean paste stew, soup doesn't exist before it's boiled.
No matter how easy or simple it may be, what exists is not there before it exists.
Now I try to treat myself to good food.
I no longer eat food made with cheap ingredients that have been left to collect dust for a long time and then mixed with synthetic seasonings.
This holiday, why not clean the house and try this magical soup? Why not try some janchi guksu (noodle soup) for lunch and brown rice with spinach and soybean paste stew for dinner? --- p. 108-109

My mom loves this pasta very much.
The more you eat it, the tastier it gets than any other pasta.
But in reality, it is the most eaten food in Italian households.
A junior who came back from studying abroad in Italy told me about pasta.
I think the simplest things are the ones that don't get boring.
Maybe people, maybe relationships, and finally even life itself, are best when they are simple.
Like, I just like it, or I just want to save it, or something like that… … .
--- p.121

“So, one day, my mother also realized a very painful truth.
'The only person you can change is yourself', you realize this once again.
Tell your friends.
In fact, if we truly experience how difficult it is for humans to change even one thing about themselves, even with countless justifications and noble values, we will not waste precious time, energy, and precious relationships trying to change others.
--- p.131~132

Becoming an adult means learning to distinguish between what is true and what is not true, between fact and delusion, between fact and obsession, between fact and illusion.
all.
Becoming an adult means having to sort out the facts from all these phenomena.
It also means that the work becomes more and more delicate, as if a skilled surgeon were cutting, detaching, joining, and sewing together not only the aorta and vena cava, but also the blood vessels.
Do you understand? I'm saying that love that knows how to distinguish delicately is powerful.
--- p.180~182

For a person to truly become independent, for a person to truly become an adult and take responsibility for themselves, it is as simple as making food for oneself.
Included.
It's a very important factor.
I recently met a social worker and was talking to him. He said that the despair of an elderly man living alone who has never taken responsibility for his own food and now cannot even think about it is a significant factor in his suicidal impulses.
It made sense.
So he said that we should give cooking classes to the elderly who live alone, teaching them everything from how to cook rice to making simple side dishes and soup.
--- p.239

Mom says she thinks about death sometimes.
At this age, you have to prepare for death.
Actually, it's been like that since I was young.
Since I don't know when I will die, I am writing this and preparing food to eat and laugh with you when you come.
Because I don't know when I will die, today is more precious and beautiful to me.
My beautiful daughter, yes, live one day at a time.
There is only today.
That's all there is to life.
If all you see on the bus to meet your mother is spring, then your life is all spring.
Mom will now walk out to pick you up.
Even on the morning of the day I die, I want to look in the mirror and say:
“Of all the days you have lived, today is the most beautiful day you have ever lived.”
--- p.251~253

Winyeong, but despite all that, what Mom really wants to say is this.
Even if you're so busy that you have to live off of ramen for days, even if you're so poor that you can't cook a single fresh meal in the distant future when your mother is gone, you're still precious.
You must never stop loving and cherishing yourself.
Whatever food is placed in front of you, eat it with gratitude, enjoy it, and smile.
Look at life from a broader perspective and don't take things too seriously.
Just as my life doesn't go badly wrong just because the food I ate today wasn't very tasty, or because the dish I chose wasn't very good,
Isn't that right? If you're still not happy, you should think about it.
What am I obsessed with, what am I always comparing myself to?

--- p.312~313