The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Burritos — a Mexican food that consists of flour tortilla wrapped around a filling that can include beans, beef, vegetables or all of them. When we go to Taco Bell, we often choose the one with ground beef and potato filling. We’ve tried others (the pork barbecue is… well, just skip it) and we’ve always ... (more)
Sunday. At the house on a hill, that means it’s the man of the house’s turn to cook. And my turn to play paparazzi. I turned on the lights (Speedy’s such a cheapo he actually cooks without turning on any lights. Duh!) and started taking photos. I was happy with the details I was getting, ... (more)
… let’s talk about rice noodles, the most common noodles used in Asian cooking. There seems to be a disagreement about the nutritional value of rice noodles. Some say it has little nutritional value, is mostly starch with little dietary fiber, and mung bean noodles or vermicelli, sotanghon as we call it and the kind used in Korean japchae, is not much better.
Another site, however, practically declares rice noodles as the ultimate health food because it contains zero saturated fats, zero cholesterol and zero sugar.
If there is one thing that most people agree on, however, it’s the fact that rice noodles are gluten-free…
Chocolate and mangoes do go well together. And I probably wouldn't have … »»
About two Sunday's ago, we had lunch at Mr. Kurosawa at the Eastwood mall … »»
I've mentioned before that we have this Sunday arrangement -- my husband … »»
In the Philippines, this dish of grilled skewered pork marinated in … »»
I can't resist a good recipe when I come across one. I was browsing food … »»
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 … »»
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.
This is a journal of how we live, eat, learn, play and have fun. Work? Work is part of playing and having fun. Seriously.
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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