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Soup is more than just the liquid in which meat or seafood had been cooked. Some soups are so hearty that they can be the main dish. We have a lot of that in the Philippines where, as a practice, we don’t serve the soup ahead of the main dish. Soups dishes like tinola, nilaga (literally, boiled) and sinigang (a sour soup with meat or seafood), for instance, are normally served as main dishes. With rice. And we like to douse our rice with the broth.
In this section, find soups that bring comfort and joy to your heart -- from simple yet tasty clear broths to chunky soups to Asian noodle soups brimming with colors and exotic flavors.
Armed with the information that saluyot is slimy, I combined the saluyot leaves with spinach to make a chunky soup that wouldn’t be too slimy that Speedy and Sam wouldn’t touch it. As it turned out, Sam ate a little, then balked at the sliminess but at least she tried it. Next time, I’ll add ... (more)
Some soups are so hearty that they can be the main dish. We have a lot of that in the Philippines where, as a practice, we don’t serve the soup ahead of the main dish. Soups dishes like tinola, nilaga (literally, boiled) and sinigang (a sour soup with meat or seafood), for instance, are normally ... (more)
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)
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)
There was a time when, having recently discovered the availability of dashi, miso paste and wakame in local groceries, we’d have miso soup almost everyday. We were so happy that we no longer had to go to some expensive Japanese restaurant to enjoy good miso soup that we were practically gorging on it. Sam and ... (more)
This is a tomato-based soup quite similar to the tomato soup with tripe and sausage but with a few significant differences. First, the ox tripe and knuckles were pressure-cooked to save time and fuel. Second, I used glorious, glorious Vigan longganisa, a present from Alex who went on a field trip to Ilocos about three ... (more)
One thing I like about ground meat is how it is such a budget stretcher. A little goes a long, long way. Even if a lot of vegetables are added, and even if the proportion of vegetables to meat is terribly lop-sided, no one really feels too meat-deprived because everyone still gets some meat with ... (more)
In About Chinese sausages, I asked how you readers like to cook them and there was a comment that stood out. While most, myself included, fry Chinese sausages or include them in stir fried dishes, reader Marilyn wrote about steaming them with chicken. It made me pause but then I realized it really wasn’t all ... (more)
If I had access to kale, I’d have used a bunch in lieu of white cabbage. If I had, this would be a real Zuppa Toscana, that famed Italian soup that chef Emeril Lagasse swears his mother cooks the best version of. But I don’t know where to buy kale — in my lonely corner ... (more)
This is probably the first real dish that I cooked in days. The bug I caught left me with very little appetite and when I don’t feel hungry, trust me when I say that anything I cook will reflect the way I feel. So, I didn’t even bother to make an attempt. We had a ... (more)
Since I first sampled this salmon belly sinigang at Gerry's Grill, I've … »»
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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.
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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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