Foot and Fire

SALAD DAYS start now because indian mangoes abound!!! Egg Salad: Indian mango, grated Onions, sliced Pepper Salt Boiled eggs, quartered Dressing: Mango, mashed flesh Fish sauce Banana Vinegar Agave syrup Salt Mix aĺl dressing ingredients in a bottle and shake. Place all salad ingredient in a bowl. Add the dressing. Mix well, adjust taste with salt. *** Fish kinilaw: Deboned Fish Vinegar Ginger, grated Indian mango, grated White onion, chopped Chili Pepper Salt Soak deboned fish in vinegar for 30 minutes. Drain and set aside. In a bowl, add all grated ingredients. Add the fish and the spices. Add vinegar and adjust taste with salt. #goalachieved

Vincent and Theo The Van Gogh brothers By Deborah Heiligman Hardbound, 2017, 454 pages Interrupted by a Margarita sesh while I was nearing the end,  finally I finished it all down to the last page (yes, including the appendices). This book was a slow starter for me that I initially regretted getting it but once I progressed past 50 pages I guess, I couldn't get it down and finished it in three days (not without interruptions, of course).  The world indeed would not have  Vincent without Theo. Vincent 1853-1890; Theo 1857-1891. The author looked at Vincent through his love, hate, turbulent relationship with his younger brother Theo. Love, respect, admiration, belief, interdependence between them prevailed... and extended to Jo, Theo's wife. Like Vincent's Starry Night which I looked at from my point of view, reading about Vincent in  this Deborah Heiligman book, I saw Theo and Vincent with extraordinary relationship. Their brotherhood is a masterpiece by itself. ...