Koi in the pond. These three photos were taken on different days. The second photo, taken on Family Day in July, 2005, made it to a Canon Photo Exhibit last year at the SM Megatrade Hall.
The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Daddy in the kitchen
Oven-fried potato chips
It wasn't my turn to cook, being a Sunday. Sunday is daddy-in-the-kitchen … »»
Huevos rancheros. Sort of. With spinach. (As corrected.)
What are huevos rancheros? The English translation is eggs ranch-style. The … »»
Honeydew and mint cooler
Inspired by a drink concocted by Bob Blumer in his Surreal Gourmet show, … »»
Fried potatoes with hoisin sauce
My 15-year-old daughter, Alex, recently discovered Shakey's and fell in … »»
Lemongrass and chili stuffed tofu
And so we take a break from the sweets and the meats and all those rich … »»
More cooking, wining & dining
Pasta with crumbled Hungarian sausage and yogurt
A simple, easy and very tasty pasta dish that you can cook in one pan. … »»
Chinese-style braised beef
I can't resist a good recipe when I come across one. I was browsing food … »»
Cooking with bits and pieces
So, I mentioned the other day that I made a huge pot of broth by simmering … »»
Milkshake with dulce de leche mudslide
I've been dreaming of making this for weeks. But since we started making … »»
Creamed sausage, potato and cabbage soup a la zuppa Toscana
If I had access to kale, I'd have used a bunch in lieu of white cabbage. If … »»
About CASA Veneracion
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.
The kitchen staff
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 »)
Recently digested
Agedashi tofu
According to Tastefully Done, age means deep fried and dashi, of course, is … (more...)
Fried breaded okra
Okra has a bad reputation in our house. So bad a reputation that I'm the … (more...)
Oshitashi or goma-ae? Whatever. It’s spinach salad with roasted sesame dressing
When I first came across this spinach recipe in The New York Times health … (more...)
Pancit Molo (or is it Molo soup?)
This is an updated version of a recipe originally published on September … (more...)
Melon, ginger ale and peppermint slush
In the Philippines, melon usually refers to the cantaloupe or rockmelon. … (more...)
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