The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
When you need to reduce the amount of salt in a dish, what do you do to make sure that the flavors don’t fall flat? You add things that are rich and flavor and aroma so that you don’t miss the salt at all. In an earlier version of this pearl potato salad / side ... (more)
Does a salad always have to be served on a salad plate and eaten with a salad fork? If bread forms part of the salad, does the bread always have to be in the form of croutons? As far as I am concerned, the answers are no and no. I like variety. So, a couple ... (more)
If you ask me what my favorite salad green is, I’d tell you it’s arugula. If you ask me what my second favorite salad green is, I’d say lettuce. If you ask me what kind of lettuce, I’d tell you any kind except iceberg lettuce. If you ask me what other vegetables I want in ... (more)
It’s called birthday salad because it was made by three people who celebrated their birthday last month — Buddy, Laura and myself. Just like my complete salad from 2008, this one is savory and filling as it has everything in it — meat, vegetables, fruit, egg and even nuts. Laura prepped the veggies, Buddy grilled ... (more)
Last Monday, when Sam was craving for a bacon fix and was asking if we had bacon in the freezer, Speedy and I told her about an extraordinary way to cook bacon that we saw on TV. Bacon tempura. Thin, thin strips of belly bacon dipped in tempura batter and deep fried. It’s crispy bacon ... (more)
Last night, we had dinner guests. Well, not really guests because they’re family. My brother-in-law, Buddy, and his best gal, Laura, came over and they brought everything needed to make a salad. Laura made the salad with lettuce, apples and toasted almond slices; Buddy, in the photo, made the salad dressing — a very simple ... (more)
A salad made from salvageable items in the fridge and tossed in a home-brewed dressing. Summery, fruity, citrusy and light. If you don’t have quail eggs, you may substitute hard boiled chicken eggs, sliced or cut into wedges. The yellow pepper rings are totally optional. You may even use your preferred salad dressing. First let ... (more)
I’m not particularly fond of blue cheese but Speedy saw a wedge of blue cheese in the supermarket earlier and he was eager to try and do something with it at home. I don’t know too many recipes with blue cheese as an ingredient but I do know how to make blue cheese salad dressing ... (more)
In case you’re wondering why the photo shows a salmon fillet when the title mentions no such thing, it’s because the salmon is merely incidental to this entry. This is about what’s beneath the salmon — the bed of veggies that you see in the photo. It’s a very simple salad that you can prepare ... (more)
Yum Pla Dook Foo was one of the dishes we tried at a Thai restaurant recently. I so loved it that I vowed I would learn how to make it so that we can enjoy it at home. It’s not an impossible task. It’s not too ambitious a project. There was a time when we only enjoyed miso soup when we ate at Japanese restaurants; these days, we can have Japanese soup at home anytime we like. Same thing with kani salad. The trick is to discover the ingredients of a dish, find a good source of the ingredients and learn whatever unique techniques are involved in making the dish.
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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 »)
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