Foot and Fire

AS FIFTH POST FOR THE #foodflixflex which my friends and I will be doing this September to celebrate food and cinema, I present you my  Calzone or Closed Pizza and Pasta with Meatballs and whole tomatoes with the PIZZA inspired by Julia Robert's Mystic Pizza and Eat Pray Love, and by my childhood-siblings fave Home Alone and the PASTA WITH MEATBALLS inspired by my nephew's fave Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and the whole tomatoes inspired by Japanese film, Little Forest. In real life, I am challenged to recreate  Bacolod's defunct HR Pizza, a little nook famous for their calzone. My first try is not bad but I will definitely make another one soon. I was blessed by my Genovese Basils with lots of healthy leaves and I had more than enough for my pizza and pasta sauce. I also bought tomatoes as I plan to make whole tomatoes for my pasta sauce. White onions abound in our market so I grabbed the chance to buy more for my meatballs and sauce. Here...

Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert softbound, 334 pages Memoir, Penguin, 2006 It is hard to start reading a book when one has a slight negative prejudice towards it. Before I saw the movie, I already skimmed a few pages of it in a bookstore and I was turned off by the very idea that the author wanted to avoid: Another tale of prozac-filled brain in a cold urban jungle of New York City by a woman who divorced her husband and a society filled with sexual permissiveness but devoid of spiritual warmth. As a starter, I really hated too much anxiety-filled drama so that I did not decide to read this one then. But I came to read it this June and I am glad I was ready for it. It was a delightful read as it tackles a personal spiritual journey (or I must say, journey towards selfhood). I got her now than when I was skimming the book in my 20s. There is a point in our lives when we are faced with a question whether we made a right decision all along or just tagged along the linear dicta...