The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
They started appearing as early as September at about the same time that supermarkets and department stores started selling Christmas trees and decor, and playing Christmas carols. Along Sumulong Highway in Antipolo, seller of Christmas lanterns are everywhere. We passed two… three… four but their lanterns were either too few or too garish. Then, I ... (more)
In my mother’s house, all through the years that my brother and I were growing up, the room assignments and arrangement of furniture and appliances stayed the same. The living area was in the same spot, the couch, armchairs, coffee table and foot stools arranged like so… Same thing with the dining area and the ... (more)
I love silicone. For cooking and baking, that is; not for breast augmentation as I certainly don’t need one. Over the past few years, I’ve been gradually shifting to silicone baking pans. I have discarded the old metal kitchen tongs and have been using silicone tongs for two years or so. I have also thrown ... (more)
When I was a little girl, a time when I never heard of “bonding time” (or, even if I had, I doubt if I would have understood it anyway), I spent a lot of Saturday mornings at my father’s office. That was our special time. Just him and me. We didn’t really do anything special. ... (more)
If you’re a long time reader, you’d probably know my abhorrence toward artificial flowers. Artistically arranged dried leaves, twigs and buds are okay with me but not plastic flowers. With that kind of attitude, one would think that I cut flowers from the garden everyday and arrange them in water filled vases, Martha Stewart style. ... (more)
If you’re a new reader, I’ll tell you something that everyone else probably knows already — I take photos everyday. Well, almost everyday. I have to make exceptions for the days when I was sick like that time when a horrid (kidding!) doctor took out my gall bladder and I felt my mortality a hundred ... (more)
Until yesterday, I wasn’t sure if it was a he or a she. I thought it was a she because it has boobies. But Sam said male cats have boobies just like female cats. I checked near the tail to see if it had balls but I couldn’t understand what I saw. So, I just ... (more)
It may look like a Tamagotchi but it isn’t a Tamagotchi. It’s a portable anti-mosquito sonic repeller.
Speedy called me into the garden saying he wanted to show me something. As I walked toward where he was, he said, “When we build a new house, we’ll hire this person…” He pointed toward the house being constructed behind ours and… The hell we’ll hire whoever the mason in charge of the construction is.
Living with no house help, you can’t imagine how many times I’ve been tempted to buy a clothes dryer and a dishwasher. These electric appliances may be considered standard household items in First World countries but not in the Third World. In fact, the washing machine was not a standard household appliance until about two ... (more)
When does your weekend start? Like most Filipino families, ours used to … »»
After a quick trip to the market, Speedy checked his Facebook account, … »»
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 … »»
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 »)
It has a graham cracker crust and it is baked but at a lower temperature … (more...)
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...)
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