Foot and Fire

Thanks to my airfryer I get to cook sisig. I don't like to deep-fry so I avoid making sisig. I also can tolerate chili so I used some aise from sweet bellpepper. the secret of sisig is in the complex flavor of the sauce, not just salt and pepper hiding in the shadow of sizzling butter and drizzles of mayonnaise. Here, I'm sharing my recipe: 500g airfried tofu 1T olive oil (or butter) 3 cloves garlic, chopped 1 medium onion, chopped 2 bellpeppers, chopped 3 stalks spring onion, chopped 3 long chilis, chopped seed incuded Sauce mixture 1/4 C soy sauce 1/8 C mirin (or any cooking wine) 1T oligosaccharides (or any sweetener) 2T pickle relish 2T fish sauce 1T sesame oil 1T nutritional yeast salt (optional) Airfry the chopped tofu at 200F for 30 minutes to brown it. For softer texture, I suggest 20 minutes and for crispy version, add ten more minutes.  Prepare the Sauce mixture. Set aside. In a pan, add oil and saute the garlic and onion and add the rest of ingredients. S...

Having a firm tofu in the house is a joy because it's easy to cook and enjoy. I also feel the need to review the Season 1 of Culinary Wars because that highlighted the ways on how to enjoy Tofu when the chefs developed several dishes out of it. So far, I did Tofu Sisig and this. If tofu comes in blocks, I can do some White Spoon/Black Spoon kitchen moves.  Tofu and Kimchi Stew 1 T Olive oil 3 cloves garlic, chopped 1 medium onion, chopped 250 g tofu, cubed 1 cup water 3T kimchi 1T Kimchi juice 1t chili paste 1t Oligosaccharide (or any preferred sweetener) 1t Mirin (or any cooking wine) 1 t fish sauce 1T nutritional yeast (optional) Salt In a pan, saute garlic and onion in oil. Add the cubed tofu and brown the sides a bit.  Add water, kimchi and kimchi juice. Let boil. Add the rest of the ingredients and let simmer. Adjust salt according to preference. Serve on top of rice. Serves 2.

Brida  Paulo Coelho Fiction/Novel  originally published in 1990 Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jule Costa hardbound, 212 pages This is my second Paulo Coelho book. I first read The Alchemist and it did not transform me into something after reading it (even just into something next to stone). It was eons ago that I read it, and sadly, all I can even recall now is how I was thinking that everything in it were cliches. After reading Brida, I wonder why I think/felt that way with The Alchemist that I am on a mission to reread it. Perhaps, as a reader I was, in time, transformed too. Not that Brida got me totally. It is just that I gave it a chance as I went on, perhaps because Brida is a woman and this is March, a celebratory month for women. And usually, the equinox happens in March. I should have some mystic vibes so I can be more receptive, I guess. But that is the point of reading, to explore a world, an idea outside our own and somehow finding some connect...