The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
This is an updated version of a recipe originally published on September 22, 2003. Whether you call it pancit molo or molo soup, it is the same basic Filipino soup dish — pork dumpling or wonton soup often with bits of cooked chicken in the broth. I’ve always wondered why it goes with a pancit ... (more)
In the Philippines, melon usually refers to the cantaloupe or rockmelon. That’s about the only variety found in the market for ages because it is the variety that is grown locally. It was not only until the last decade that imported honeydews, sugar melons and hami melons started to make an appearance and gained some ... (more)
Speedy grew up with five siblings. He’s the third from the youngest, the age difference between him and the oldest is, I think, seven years. He still recalls how they’d all scramble over “choice cuts” during meals. The bangus belly, for instance. Agawan, as he put it. One of the perks of being one of ... (more)
A one-pot dish that’s a breeze to prepare. The sausage meat makes the broth rich in taste while the vegetables and pasta make the soup very filling. Serve it as a first course and you don’t have to follow it up with a heavy meat dish. Best of all, it’s so rustic and comforting it ... (more)
When we were living in the city next to my grandmother’s house, Sam and Alex spent a lot of time in my grandmother’s garden. Alex was very young then, just learning to talk. Sam was already the most talkative toddler ever and she liked to christen the plants and flowers. Because it was the Disney ... (more)
Alex had been asking for baked salmon with buttered vegetables but we only had a 300-gram or so of salmon fillet and it wouldn’t have been enough to feel all four of us for lunch. So, I deviated from the baked salmon with buttered vegetables by serving the salmon on a bed of very cheesy ... (more)
It kicks. Seriously. Five shots of tequila and one shot of Kahlua, and, well… it should kick. It’s a good thing that I took photos before I downed the glass of Coctel Adelita. If I had insisted on sampling it before taking the photos, I might have had a serious case of camera shake and ... (more)
I’m a mojito girl. After my UP Law class held a reunion / testimonial dinner a year and a half ago, in some of the photos that came out on Facebook, I was referred to as “that mojito chick.” But long before I was introduced to mojito, I was in love with the margarita. Speedy’s ... (more)
There first time I served this salad at a dinner party, my friends were a … »»
When does your weekend start? Like most Filipino families, ours used to … »»
To say that the English translation for suman is rice cake is a bit … »»
Still experimenting with alternative methods of cooking, after using the … »»
If you're looking for the easiest cocktail drink recipe ever, you just … »»
A simple, easy and very tasty pasta dish that you can cook in one pan. … »»
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 … »»
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 »)
If you Google "melon cocktail", you'll find that there are two categories. … (more...)
According to Tastefully Done, age means deep fried and dashi, of course, is … (more...)
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...)
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