Foot and Fire

Yesterday, we harvested Upland Kangkong which we grew from seeds and we just had it for breakfast today. It's pretty special because it is the first of the green plants we grew after building a greenhouse in our backyard.  It is so named as upland Kangkong because it is not the usual wetland Kangkong which grows in marshy areas. However, this recipe can be replicated using the wetland kangkong. And while I am typing this blog, my nephew asked me while laughing that other people might not understand what a kangkong is. So, kangkong is also known as watercress, water spinach and wikipedia enumerates, " water spinach ,  river spinach ,  water morning glory ,  water convolvulus , or by the more ambiguous names  Chinese spinach ,  Chinese watercress ,  Chinese convolvulus  or  swamp cabbage , or  kangkong  in  Southeast Asia  and  ong choy  in Cantonese."  I blanched the Kangkong stems in boiling wate...

Cabbage and Radish in Vietnamese Dressing By GERLIE M. UY <p><p><br><br><br><br>VVVV</p></p> If hunger is the mother of kitchen inventions, then variety is the twin of kitchen creativity!!!  This is proven by another way of serving the ever favorite radish salad: cut rounded and thinly and served with tomatoes and onions in vinegar and salt dressing. It was quite a surprise when I served the shredded radish with shredded cabbage and as dressing used the Fish Sauce and Calamansi sauce or the NOUC MAM CHAM or NOUC CHAM the sauce I have featured here earlier fo...

 One day, I forage in the fridge and found two unrelated vegetables, a bundle of string beans and a cabbage. Well, since emergency, aside from hunger, is the mother of all kitchen concoctions, I made a stir-fry from these two never-been-matched-before vegetable. Usually, stringbeans are for pinakbet while cabbage are for chop suey but now I matched them and they blended so well. Here is the STRING BEANS AND CABBAGE STIR FRY. <p><p><br><br>TH<br><br><br><br&gt...