Foot and Fire

I am sharing our Japan Food List here. We got everything in our list covered, and more. I tasted fresh fig there at last!  ✅️ sushi from a conveyor belt which we did in Hakodate, Hokkaido ✅️ sushi to my heart's desire from a grocery store in Hakodate, Hokkaido as it is the place with live King Crab and giant clams so I had the freshest salmon, tuna, flat whitefish and mackerel on top of my sushi ✅️ onigiri, that triangle rice with filling inside and a cut of nori sheet outside to hold it, is a life saver everytime we have to catch a train. I love the salmon onigiri. ✅️Dotonbori bowl with raw egg in Osaka is what I want to have more ✅️ Kobe Beef, the tenderest ever, is a bit steep in Ueno, Tokyo ✅️ Lamb but got lamb sausage only in an Izakaya in Otaru, Hokkaido ✅️ Grilled Mackerel which I ate using my survival chopstick skills, Asakusabashi, Tokyo ✅️ Grilled Eel (I thi...

Hahaha! The title is a scam just for fun. I am writing about what I was eating during my month-long vacation in the Big Apple. Well, I can say that I liked what I ate all throughout.  I disliked what I had only on three occasions: I don't like the bread used in the sandwich of Nathan's Cart as well as in The Met cafe. While both are in New York City, the only proper eatery I disliked was in DC where I had Chinese noodles and dumplings in the only-open restaurant at 10 am and the best according to the bills posted on its door. I started this blog with what I didn't like so you won't think that I am no picky eater, and that I have no discriminating palate given that I liked almost everything even the neighborhood Colombian food. Let me group the food I had and let me walk you through the memory lane of my gustatory delight sans the elaborated plating and expensive ambiance.   1. ITALIAN Carnegie Diner and Cafe Having jet-lag is never good as the appeti...

  I cooked this last time that is why I call this Mother's Day Soup in my instagram post . Actually, this was my ambitious attempt to make French's bouillabaisse, Italian's Cioppino or Mediterranean soup. Of course, if the history of bouillabaisse is to be checked, it is not that grand because they make soup out of parts of fish that is not bound to the market.  If I will name this soup, I want to call this.. Farmer and Fisherman's soup Blue Marlin, sliced to matchbox serving size Salmon, sliced to matchbox serving size   onions garlic Carrots Bellpeppers potatoes cauliflower brocolli Tomato paste Tomato sauce salt and pepper spices: turmeric powder, chili powder, cayenne, cumin, paprika dissolved in 1 C water. another cup of water, if needed.   How to: Preheat oven to 180C for 10 minutes. In a dutch oven, arrange the onions and garlic and vegetables and fish add the tomato paste and tomato sauce and a cup of water where the spices are dissol...