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The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
May is Filipino fiesta month
Suman: rice cake in a tube. In three flavors.
To say that the English translation for suman is rice cake is a bit … »»
Rellenong manok (stuffed deboned whole chicken)
If you want a delicious and great-looking main dish for noche buena, … »»
Steamed whole tilapia with ginger and soy sauce
The dish that launched this blog. Literally. More than seven years ago, I … »»
Waknatoy: a dish with a funny name
Marikeños like to say that waknatoy is a dish unique to Marikina. Well, … »»
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...)
curious pictures.
i ask: if a person decides to put faith in the bible, shouldn’t he/she be venerating what it specifically condemns? what is the basis of religious images, and does it supersede the bible canon?
something related: an article i browsed by a few years ago said a celebrity couple decided it’s not gonna work for the two of them because he reads the bible while she is loyal to mama mary. whatda?!
i guess, maybe just there’s too much cynicism when it comes to matters of faith and religion that turns off many people from really digging into it with as much passion and reason as they do with secular issues, e.g. politics, science.
wala lang! hehehe. have a fun, well-deserved break!