The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Two weeks ago, I told you about my partnership with Ziplist and how, through its wonderful service, you foodies and home cooks can now create recipe boxes and shopping lists that you can access anywhere via your phone or tablet — yes, even when you’re already inside the grocery! I have a new announcement to ... (more)
Imagine you just came across a recipe on this blog that you really, really like and feel is right up your alley. The next time you’re in the grocery, you remember the recipe you promised yourself you’d make but since you don’t recall all the ingredients needed to make it, you promise yourself that, next ... (more)
The redesign of the blog’s pages is not a whim. It’s a response to technological advances, ever-shifting reading habits and the increasing popularity of mobile internet. If you like to view this blog on a tablet (like an iPad) or a smartphone (like an iPhone), you’ll be happy to know that the pages now render ... (more)
In an old post in one of the subdomains of the food blog, there’s a photo of siew pau taken in Penang. In the accompanying text, I mentioned that I bought a few pieces of siew pau and my friends and I ate them in the taxi on the way back to the pier. Someone ... (more)
Circa 2007. Wooden cooking utensils in our old kitchen which we built as an addition to our old house. Ah, memories…
It takes brains, creativity and imagination to promote a cause without resorting to insufferable propagandism and sloganeering. I’m going to the Antipolo Earthfest 2011. Click on the photo for more details.
So, we’re finally doing videos for the food blog. Speedy is, actually. I just help with the captions. Sam, because she passed her Basic Videography course with flying colors, is the very critical critic. The order of the photos were rearranged after her critique. My camera’s being serviced right now (cleaning!), I’ll get it back ... (more)
A couple of days ago, I was reading aimlessly and I landed on the Philippine Star column of Socorro Ramos where a reader seeks advice regarding his wife who is a Facebook addict. Ms. Ramos advised the reader to talk to his wife and tell her how he feels, and: “… to also open a ... (more)
In an unexpected twist of events, Feast Asia is now on print. No, not as a cookbook — not yet, anyway — but as a food column. Last week, I got a text massage message from the Lifestyle editor of Manila Standard Today (where I write an opinion column Tuesdays and Thursdays) asking if I was interested in writing a food column. I didn’t even need to think about it. I didn’t even negotiate about rates. I just said yes. And when I was asked what I want the food column to be called, I said Feast Asia. My first Feast Asia column came out today.
That said, let me tell you what’s new in Feast Asia, the food blog…
The Antipolo Cathedral, home of the Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage … »»
Surprisingly, there is no pancit bihon recipe in my archives. There is a … »»
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...)
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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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