Foot and Fire

AS FOURTH POST FOR THE #foodflixflex which my friends and I will be doing this September to celebrate food and cinema, I present you my My Pear and Apple Pie in the City of Angels. If others have a theme song in their lives, I have a theme movie in my life and it is called City of Angels. I wanted it to be A walk in the Clouds but I just have to give the spot to COA given the storyline. COA has all the factors of being a classic movie given the actors, the script, the storyline, the directing. It is a love story and a celebration of our mortality. Who would not feel loved when an angel gave up his mortality for a human? Okay, there is nothing about pie in that movie but it definitely captured me with something about pear, a favorite fruit of mine. It goes: Seth: What's that like? What's it taste like? Describe it like Hemingway. Maggie: Well, it tastes like a pear. You don't know what a pear tastes like? Seth: I don't know what a pear taste...

The triple combo of avocado, cucumber and corn with strawberry dressing! Cubed cucumber! Cubed avocado and the sweet corn kernel! Triple Treat Salad The Strawberry dressing... My store-bought dressing...a Gourmet Dressing by Quan, a local bakeshop and restaurant. Manufactured by Pueblo Bakeshop, La Salle Avenue, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental. 034-434-1733 Fax 034-434-6481 The ingredient says it's made of vinegar, strawberries, corn oil, sugar and spices. avocado a.k.a alligator pear. It was green when not yet ripe and the peelings turned purple when they ripened. Choose a ripe avocado with firm flesh for this recipe. 3 medium-sized avocado, seed removed and cubed (flesh should be firm but ripe) 3 medium-sized cucumber, seeded and cubed  1 can corn kernel, drained strawberry dressing In a bowl, put the first three ingredients. Drizzle with half-cup strawberry dressing. The strawberry dressing I used is store-bought but a home version can be made from strawberry jam, vinegar, corn ...