The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
I would have grilled the steaks but my husband insisted that he do the cooking. He likes pan frying the steaks in butter to give it a slightly burned crust with the center still very rare. My participation was limited to cooking the rice (in an automatic rice cooker hehehe), opening a can of whole corn kernels and preparing the gravy…
An updated version of an entry originally published in July 26, 2003. … »»
An escalope is a piece of boneless meat made uniformly thin by pounding … »»
Inspired by a drink concocted by Bob Blumer in his Surreal Gourmet show, … »»
Call it a journey to re-discover rice. Living in Asia, we've somehow taken … »»
So, I mentioned the other day that I made a huge pot of broth by simmering … »»
I've been dreaming of making this for weeks. But since we started making … »»
If I had access to kale, I'd have used a bunch in lieu of white cabbage. If … »»
In a post I published four and a half years ago, I mentioned that everyone … »»
There are two earlier version of this recipe for steamed fish with tausi … »»
Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
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In 2003, a time when I hadn't heard of the term "blog", I started a recipe website at cooking.houseonahill.net using a now defunct content management system that ran on ASP. Ok, never mind the geek talk, I'm sure you're not interested in that. The contents easily multiplied and, in 2004, I moved the food site to pinoycook.net. Always unhappy with the fact that the dot com versions of houseonahill and pinoycook weren't … (click here to read all »)
Okra has a bad reputation in our house. So bad a reputation that I'm the … (more...)
When I first came across this spinach recipe in The New York Times health … (more...)
This is an updated version of a recipe originally published on September … (more...)
In the Philippines, melon usually refers to the cantaloupe or rockmelon. … (more...)
A one-pot dish that's a breeze to prepare. The sausage meat makes the broth … (more...)
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