What if Steven Spielberg created E.T. in 2006 instead of in 1982? You think there would be a scene with a laptop in it and Elliot teaching E.T. how to blog? Just a thought… LOL
The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
May is Filipino fiesta month
Pancit canton (a.k.a. lo mein or chow mein)
An updated version of a recipe originally published on June 15, 2003. A … »»
Chicken tinola and liver sauce
Tinolang manok or chicken soup with green papaya and chili leaves was a … »»
Humba (braised pork belly)
*UPDATE: Click here for a better recipe for humba and how to serve it as … »»
Fresh tropical fruits salad
Ditch the canned fruit cocktail with the rubbery content that is 90% chewy … »»
More cooking, wining & dining
For St. Patrick’s Day: after dinner mint
After a quick trip to the market, Speedy checked his Facebook account, … »»
Slow cooker recipe: Bacon, cheese and potato casserole
Still experimenting with alternative methods of cooking, after using the … »»
Tequila cranberry cocktail
If you're looking for the easiest cocktail drink recipe ever, you just … »»
Pasta with crumbled Hungarian sausage and yogurt
A simple, easy and very tasty pasta dish that you can cook in one pan. … »»
Chinese-style braised beef
I can't resist a good recipe when I come across one. I was browsing food … »»
About CASA Veneracion
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.
The kitchen staff
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 »)
Recently digested
Mango cheese pie: something between a cheesecake and a custard
It has a graham cracker crust and it is baked but at a lower temperature … (more...)
Melon cocktail with grape syrup
If you Google "melon cocktail", you'll find that there are two categories. … (more...)
Agedashi tofu
According to Tastefully Done, age means deep fried and dashi, of course, is … (more...)
Fried breaded okra
Okra has a bad reputation in our house. So bad a reputation that I'm the … (more...)
Oshitashi or goma-ae? Whatever. It’s spinach salad with roasted sesame dressing
When I first came across this spinach recipe in The New York Times health … (more...)
bakit parang naka-dirty finger si ET towards your laptop? Intentional or accidental?
Ngek. Align yun, hindi dirty finger hahahaha
Hehehe…cute E.T. Maybe he'll be taught how to do web chat.
kailangan ba talagang completo yung mga gagets mo sa pagkuha ng picture ni ET? kulang nalang hiramin mo pa cameras namin para kasama rin yung camera mo eh!
) peace, mommy!:P