Foot and Fire

Canola oil crushed and minced garlic minced onions 200 grams ground beef salt and pepper  Worcestershire sauce soy sauce 500 grams big bellpeppers (about 125gms each piece) sliced lengthwise little water chopped celery or onion leaves  Saute onion and garlic in oil. Add beef and simmer for at least three minutes. Add salt, pepper Worcestershire sauce and sauce according to taste. Place the bellpeppers and little water if needed. Let cook a bit. Top with celery before removing from fire.

By GERLIE M. UY Pinoy's Special salad: Salted eggs with onions and tomatoes 6 salted eggs (red-painted ones in the Philippine Market) 6 medium-ripe tomatoes 2 red or white onions 2 pieces dalanghita (or 6 pcs calamansi or any citrus) 1 T soy sauce (optional as the eggs are salty already) coarse pepper Peel and slice the salted eggs. Arrange in the platter. Slice the tomatoes and onions, round or chopped for easy bite. Add in the platter. Squeeze the citrus and make sure that the seeds are not going to the preparation. Add soy sauce and coarse pepper.. Serve as side dish or on top of hot boiled rice.

By GERLIE M. UY Here is another way of enjoying spaghetti when one ran out of tomato sauce... The simple garlic and oil sauce. Just added a local canned tuna called Century Tuna Inasal flavor on top so as to interest the palate of my conventional eating pack at home. A serving for Julie-Ann  Ingredients: 1/2 kl spaghetti 9 cloves of garlic, sliced thinly 1/2 cup olive oil salt and  ground pepper dry basil leaves (if fresh herbs such as parsley or oregano are available, use them) Century Tuna Inasal flavor (smoked) How to: Heat olive oil in pan.  Add garlic slices and spread on the pan. Adjust heat to low until garlic turns medium brown.  Add the spaghetti pasta and mix together. Put dashes of salt and ground pepper to taste.  Add ample amount of dried basil leaves and mix. Remove from fire. Place tuna on top and mix together just before serving. The sliced (not minced) garlic If you use the extra virgin olive oil, the better. Aglio et olio Century Tuna Inasal F...

By GERLIE M. UY Okra Tempura is ready to serve with your fave sweet-chili ketchup! More of the okra tempura... young okra sliced in half!!! 2 cups flour with turmeric powder and ground pepper my fave duo... beaten eggs  the batter the batter with the bread crumbs the batter and the okra... not-so-deep fry... my idea of deep-fry up close and personal with the batter mixture About 20 pieces young okra, sliced in to vertically into two 2 cups flour 1 T turmeric powder A dash of ground pepper A dash of fine iodized salt 1 cup bread crumbs 2 eggs, beaten 1/2 to 1 cup water 1 cup canola oil Sweet Chili ketchup, Plain ketchup or homemade thousand islands dressing In a bowl, add flour, turmeric powder, pepper and salt.  Add bread crumbs and eggs. Add water and mix thoroughly.  Add okra slices. In a small sauce pot, add the oil. When hot, add pieces of okra, one at a time.  Cook for a minute on one side and another minute for the other side.  Remove with slotted spoon a...

By GERLIE M. UY My first attempt to a Miso Soup is a success!  Our japanese soup server was initiated with this Veges and Miso Soup! Sans the flash, this is how it looks. Super Soupy soup... My soup today! It was a luck that Robinson's Bacolod has this stock of Korean Miso Paste! Here's another photo of the Korean Miso Paste I bought... 3 stalks celery, coarsely chopp 3 stalks Baguio leeks, coarsely chopped 1 medium potato, coarsely chopped 750 ml to 1L water rock salt ground pepper 2 T butter 100 gms Soy Bean Paste (Miso) In a soup pot, place water and add celery and leeks. Season with salt and pepper. In a high fire, bring to boil. Continuously boil for 5 minutes and remove from fire. Let cool a bit Separate the stock and the vegetables. Blender the vegetables. In a soup pot, place butter. Add the blended vegetables. Simmer for 2 minutes in medium fire. Add the stock. Dissolve the Miso paste with a little stock and add to the mixture. Bring to boil. Serve hot.

By GERLIE M. UY The lemon temper the peppery taste while the garlic accompany the  ensemble well. Sampling the Steak... The lemon slices grilled beside the steak... Four pieces of T-bone steak with lemons on the side is ready for serving! 1 kilo T-bone Steak (4 pieces) Marinade: 2 T ground Pepper 2 T Pepper powder 4 T ground Garlic 2 T Garlic powder 2 T Onion powder 2 T Coriander powder 2 T rock salt 2 T white sugar 4 T canola/olive oil 1/2 cup water oil for brushing the grill slices of lemons Place the T-bone steak in a large baking tin. Mix the marinade ingredients. Pour a a fourth of the mixture in one piece and place apiece in the plastic bag. Continue until all steaks are coated and placed in a bag. Pour the rest of the marinade in the bag and seal. Refrigerate overnight. Slice the lemons in circle serving pieces. Heat oven top grill until very hot. Brush grill plate with oil. Place the steak one at a time. Grill for 3 minutes on each side depending on the thickness of the se...

By GERLIE M. UY BAM-I with scrambled egg and calamansi. Squeeze the calamansi juice into the mixture and enjoy the noodle special, with or without toasted bread.... The Bam-i on the platter. 2T canola oil 3 cloves garlic, crushed and minced 1 medium onion, minced 100gms beef, cut into 1/2 inch bits salt and ground pepper 10 pcs. baguio beans, sliced diagonally 2 medium carrots, julienned 250 grams dried pancit canton 100 grams bihon (or vermicilli) 5 T soy sauce 1 to 2 cups hot water 1/2 cabbage, cut into strips 1 t canola oil 3 eggs, beaten salt and pepper calamansi, sliced into two For preparation: Cut up the beef. Sprinkle with salt and refrigerate.  Then strip the vegetables. Set aside separately. In basin, put the dried  pancit canton and the bihon, pour water. Let stay for a minute and drain. Set aside and rip apart the bihon noodle into pieces once pliant. Mince garlic and onion. Cooking proper: In a medium to high heat, saute garlic and onion in oil until brown a...

The caramel pork in clay pot -- Carlene's dinner later. <p><p><p> </p></p></p> Another favorite of the Vietnamese aside from the fish sauce is the caramel in their fave meats. Since I am not a pork person, I asked the chef for the alternative and he suggested chicken and warned that beef will not be suitable for the recipe as beef gets dry... Well, I am going to try it on chicken and fish meat for sure. here's the recipe to this popular claypot dish. 100g boneless pork legs, sliced (chicken breased or legs ma...

By GERLIE M. UY 1 kilo eggplants, cut lengthwise into two  and cut crosswise into 6-inch long Italian dry herbs (oregano, basil etc) 1 T ground pepper 2 T rock salt 1/2 t chicken powder (optional) 1/2 cup canola oil for deep frying  Toppings 1/3 of small block of shredded quickmelt cheese ketchup  In a bowl, mix the first five ingredients. Let stand for five minutes for flavors to sit in.   Heat oil and fry the eggplants, at least 1 minute on each side or until well done. While frying another batch of eggplants, spread cheese and ketchup over fried eggplants arranged in the platter. Cheese. Cheese and ketchup.   Place atop the first batch of fried eggplant the second batch and spread cheese and ketchup again. repeat procedure until all eggplants are fried.  Make sure to put cheese and ketchup on top of it all for presentation.  Serve hot in pair with boiled rice... related post. eggplant salad.