Foot and Fire

Asian Dressing 2T Worcestershire Sauce 2T Soy Sauce 2T lemon juice 2T apple cider vinegar 1T Korean Spicy Dip 1T Chili Garlic Salt and pepper Put all ingredients in a jar with lid. Shake to mix well. Set aside. Salad Ingredients 1/8 cabbage, shredded 2 medium cucumber, sliced thinly 1 small carrot, julienned 1 big bellpepper, julienned 1 tomato, sliced thinly In a serving bowl, add all salad ingredients. Add all Asian dressings and massage the dressing to the vegetables using one's gloved hands. Serve chilled. Look at this video on how I gave it some massage. 

  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...

MY #TOMATO STORY. Beware of what you asked for. I was intrigued by tomatoes and chilipeppers. They are the kind which does not grow where you want them to be. They thrive in places where I don't want them to be. So it's my dream to have plots of them.  I plotted tomatoes and potted some. (Chili pepper will be on another post). I asked for tomatoes and a friend sent me mixed seeds of heirloom tomatoes. Now, I am mothering a lot of them.  They are nutrient hungry and they need care from pests. Every two weeks, I gather the eggshells we saved to turn them into calcium phosphate. The pests kill the leaves, the fungus must have wilted the healthy ones. The resilient varieties thrived and fruited well. I feel rewarded each time I pick some cherry tomato and pop them in my mouth. I have a lot to learn but since I asked for this, I am determined to grow them.  Peach and Oval or grape-shaped tomatoes #farmingfairiesdiary #urbangardening #heirloo...

Kyuri Cucumber is my newest produce, along with French beans. I harvest two cucus and a handful of beans this weekend.  Added something to our table and oxygen to the earth is my satisfaction this pandemic. It has been a personal pledge to strive to do this beyond pandemic and wherever I will be in the next years. Travelling, being away from the routine  is a necessary break but it can also be a taxing endeavor for the warming earth. So I found my amends for my travel days in the past through gardening.  I wish the photos of my food garden will inspire you to at least throw seeds where they can grow much and well.  If you can't plant yet, throw fruit seeds in mountainous areas. A few years of having those trees grow add oxygen to mother earth plus food to our birds.

By GERLIE M. UY 2 pcs Steak 1 small pack of Tomato Sauce 1 cup red wine (I prefer Sangria and slightly sweet) 1 t dried Basil leaves salt and pepper Wash the steak quickly and let drain. In a pan with lid, arrange the steak, add the rest of the ingredients for marinade. Refrigerate overnight with lid. Pan Grill or Grill over charcoal until desired tenderness. Serve with remaining red wine.