Good food, great writing, decent photos. Yes, that's about right.
Believe it or not, photographing liquid pour and splash is a specialty. In alcohol advertising, photographers who can capture those tiny drops of liquid as they splash in mid-air make a lot of money. I have a daughter, Sam, who will be a professional photographer soon and she should know that. If she can capture ... (more)
That’s my grandmother’s teacup and saucer in the photo. I love the design and the colors; it’s too bad that it’s almost impossible to find chinaware with such wonderful old-fashioned design these days.
The photo is, hopefully, marks the permanent return of the “daily photo” section.
The spelling might be wrong but I think the seller of the vehicle did manage to get the message across.
My first Mac was a black one. Alex uses it now. It has undergone a few upgrades, some of the keys on the keyboard had gone loose and been replaced but it’s still good. Too bad Apple doesn’t make black laptops anymore.
Whether you wake up with a sunny disposition or a head-splitting hangover, there’s a mug for you. Bought at Shopwise Libis. Something like PhP69.00 per piece, if I remember correctly.
On December 30, a holiday, we picked up my mother for a day of eating and shopping. We did the same thing last year — treated her to lunch while she took the girls shopping for Christmas gifts. The drive from the boondocks to my mother’s house on the northern end of Metro Manila was ... (more)
People get excited when Christmas draws near for different reasons. For some, it’s the anticipation of gifts, bonuses and the mandatory 13th month pay (did you know, by the way, that the Philippines is the only country with a mandatory 13th month pay?). For others, it’s the thought of holidays — no work, no school ... (more)
When the girls arrive for the weekend, everything begins with unloading bags of dirty clothes from the pick-up which get dumped in the living room until they can go into the washing machine the next day. Along with the bags of clothes are camera bags, laptop bags, folders, papers and every imaginable thing that college ... (more)
Sunday evening was an interesting one. Busy. Sort of. Much of the busy time actually consisted of hanging out at Global City while waiting for Alex who went to see, for the second time, Next to Normal at the RCBC Theater with her friends. Sam was supposed to do a photo shoot (part of a ... (more)
I have a friend whose kids spend summers with their grandparents. My friend and her husband, or both, bring their kids to Capiz (about an hour by plane), spend a few days there then go back to the city and work. The grandparents and the kids have a month or so together and they make ... (more)
And so we take a break from the sweets and the meats and all those rich … »»
He did it again. Speedy, I mean. I was thawing scallops for lunch and, at … »»
Dinner doesn't have to be labor intensive -- a sandwich can be filling, … »»
Chocolate and mangoes do go well together. And I probably wouldn't have … »»
So, I mentioned the other day that I made a huge pot of broth by simmering … »»
I've been dreaming of making this for weeks. But since we started making … »»
If I had access to kale, I'd have used a bunch in lieu of white cabbage. If … »»
In a post I published four and a half years ago, I mentioned that everyone … »»
There are two earlier version of this recipe for steamed fish with tausi … »»
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 »)
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...)
In the Philippines, melon usually refers to the cantaloupe or rockmelon. … (more...)
A one-pot dish that's a breeze to prepare. The sausage meat makes the broth … (more...)
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