Foot and Fire

500g ground beef 6 pcs carrots, chopped 1 sayote, chopped 2 big potatoed, chopped Celery, chopped 6 cloves garlic, chopped 2 onions, chopped Salt, pepper, and soy sauce Oatmeal 2 big Cabbage heads Toothpick Dip: Soy sauce Calamansi Mix all chopped vegetables. Add salt, pepper and soy sauce to taste. Add oatmeal in small amount at a time, just enough to bind the mixture. Scoop the mixture and place in the cabbage leaf, fold and secure with toothpick. Repeat last procedure until the mixture is used up. Ready the steamer with boiling water. Place the cabbage parcel and steam for 2p minutes. Serve hot with the dipping sauce.

Two kilos beef, sliced as in tapa 2 pouches of Clara Ole's honey-mustard olive oil Garlic onion for saute onion for garnish Marinate the beef in the prepared honey-mustard marinade. Refrigerate overnight. Saute garlic and chopped onion in olive oil.  Quick-fry each piece of beef by batch and let the beef rest on the side of the pan while frying the next batch. Repeat until all beef slices are fried. Cover and let cook for 15 minutes.  Turn each piece of the beef and let cook covered for 15 minutes. Add the rest of the marinade and let cook for another 20 to 30 minutes. Adjust flavor with salt and pepper. Serve garnished with onions. *** Stirfry cubed singkamas, potatoes, sayote and carrots.  Season with salt and pepper.  Sprinkle with dry italian herbs. ***

Cook pancit canton as directed in the package. Once boiling, put vegetables like carrots, cabbage, baguio beans and sayote and drain together with the noodles. Add the seasoning. Serve with fried tufo and slices of cucmber on the side. Merienda is ready. Pairing a food guilt with nature's food gifts... :)                                          ***                                   ***

This is the outcome! For chop suey, I used canned young corn and mushroom, ground beef, carrots, potatoes, sayote, bell pepper, cabbage. A little of cornstarch was used to adjust the consistency as the chop suey should not be soupy.   *** For cripsy noodles, I washed the sotanghon or the vermicelli in warm water and soak for a while before draining. Then, I heated a pan until a little smoke comes out of it. I arranged the noodle spreading it out on the pan to get the pan shape. *** For chop suey recipe, pleaes see older posts.

By GERLIE M. UY Pechay Wraps can also be called Bok Choy Wrap! Here's the link on our favorite green leafy vegetable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cabbage I mainly love Pechay when cooked with ground beef clear soup. I will share the recipe with you later as I did not take pictures of such a favorite home dish, as ordinary as it may be for us but I promise, it will enamor you too. Speaking of ordinariness, I decided to put a twist on the usual soup but best buddy: beef and  pechay. Here it comes!  The sumptuous Pechay a.k.a. Bok Choy Wraps after being steamed for 20 minutes. Best served with soy sauce or fish sauce (patis) with calamansi. Since I have no carrots, I used the squash and sayote.  Chop a cup and a half (1 1/2 cup) of each.  Then chop some onions and garlic in desired amount (the more the better. ).  Mix the chopped squash and sayote with 200g ground beef.  Put salt and pepper then soy sauce. Add egg if you desire. Mix well.  He...