The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Recipes for plain, sweet and savory home-baked bread; creative taco fillings; sandwiches; savory muffins, pancakes, waffles, omelets, congee and other dishes commonly associated with breakfast.
Still experimenting with alternative methods of cooking, after using the pressure cooker for a couple of recipes, I now turn to my slow cooker. It’s probably not the most energy efficient cooking method but the convenience of being able to leave the dish to cook by itself for hours and hours — no stirring nor ... (more)
In a post I published four and a half years ago, I mentioned that everyone in my family has a unique favorite bread. Alex’s favorite is focaccia. That hasn’t changed in four and a half years. What has changed is the price of focaccia. My goodness, you’d think special equipment are used for baking the ... (more)
I caught a bug. First, an annoying ache just below the back of my neck that spread to the shoulders. Then, a persistent stomach ache. Then, fever. Yep, some kind of flu. But, these days, because the flu virus has mutated in so many ways, it was hard to tell at first. Or, maybe — ... (more)
Long-time readers know my penchant for making broth by simmering scrap bones with vegetables, herbs and spices. While the best are scrap ham bones (sold per kilo by ham makers Majestic and Adelina), they are not always available. Not only are the nearest outlets of both Majestic and Adelina quite far from our house, supply ... (more)
A perfect breakfast dish that you can enjoy any time of the day. It’s the classic sausage-and-egg dish cooked with a twist. The sausages are sliced and browned in a skillet, onions, tomatoes and fresh basil are added, meat and veggies are pushed to create craters, eggs are cracked into the craters and cooking continues ... (more)
Spending time on Tumblr has its benefits (yes, I do have an account there). I come across food blogs I’ve never seen before, get acquainted with other food bloggers and discover dishes that are totally out-of-this-world terrific. For instance, although I have read and heard about “Super Bowl” recipes before, I never knew exactly what they ... (more)
The 4th Earl of Sandwich did not invent the sandwich as the practice of placing meat between slices of bread is much, much older than him. In the English language, however, the first time the meat-between-bread food item was mentioned in writing, it was attributed to the 4th Earl of Sandwich who preferred to eat ... (more)
A play on the rice dish that Filipinos call arroz a la Cubana, these tacos are filled with beef and sausage stew, raw onions, cucumbers and tomatoes, and ripe mangoes. On the side, a fried egg, sunny side up, and slices of golden saba bananas. We had this for our late lunch while watching the ... (more)
Speedy and I have a weird social life. Our together social life consists mostly of family. We go out and party with his family or my family or, sometimes, with both families together. When it comes to friends though, we have separate social lives. He goes out and parties with his friends; I go out ... (more)
If you’ve heard of the Filipino dish called arroz a la Cubana, this is a variation. Instead of rice, the ground meat stew, fried egg and bananas are served with flour tortillas. The meat stew is cooked spicy, chili style, and, in lieu of the traditional saba bananas, I used the lakatan (lacatan) variety — ... (more)
Adobong pusit is a familiar dish, popular and rather common Filipino dish. … »»
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Rumor has it that I'm pregnant. I'm not. I just get cravings at times. Two … »»
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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