Foot and Fire

Sweet Bean (2015) is a Japanese film that is a joy to watch as it slowly unfolds before us. I miss this kind of pacing and I thank Director Naomi Kawase for directing it so well that I found one Japanese film that is so filling, not only visually but also story-wise. Of course, it is an intended pun because An is the soul, the sweet bean filling, of the dorayaki, a spongy pancake. This movie invites us to see possibilties beyond our limitations and do our best in our life through the friendship of a teenager with inconsiderate mother, a middle age man who hates Dorayaki and an old woman who makes the perfect An. Almost every scene is a poetry in motion for me. *** Eat Drink Man Woman Eat Drink Man Woman is a 1994 Ang Lee film that gave us a visual treat of some chinese cooking as backdrop to a story that delights us with all the twist. But as much as I loved the long exposure of kitchen techniques at the start, I doubly loved the scene where the father and daughter had fina...

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...

FOR MY THIRD POST FOR #foodfilmflex which my friends and I will be doing this September to celebrate cinema and cooking, I present to you, Eggs. How do you want your eggs? I want mine cooked in a small amount of canola oil, scrambled with chives, tomatoes, onions or chilis. One of the first cooking I learned was eggdrop soup which I cooked for my siblings when our parents, a policeman and a social worker, were responding to typhoon victims. Heat some water, put onions and tomatoes, and add scrambled eggs and voila, we have a soup. Variations may be to add spring onions or malunggay leaves. My mother taught me that. On top of that, she taught us to mix raw egg in our steaming hot rice. To convince me, she said raw eggs are even good for those with TB as they are advised to drink one from the shell every day. And then, as a kid, I saw Rocky and was convinced that raw eggs can be the breakfast of a champion. And I love everything about The Runaway Br...