The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
May is Filipino fiesta month
Pancit miki (thick egg noodles) with pork and vegetables
There is a 20-minute pancit miki recipe in the archive that has chicken and … »»
Chocolate fondue and suman (rice cakes)
The suman (rice cake) and chocolate combination is nothing unusual. In … »»
Rellenong manok (stuffed deboned whole chicken)
If you want a delicious and great-looking main dish for noche buena, … »»
Lechon con kangkong (roast pork with water spinach)
The day I cooked the lechon kawali with Pad Thai sauce, I cooked a second … »»
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...)
These photos bring back memories, sweet memories. Our family in Laguna used to manufacture fireworks. I remember being old enough to help in production and set up for shows in different towns in Laguna and Batangas. With the advent of martial law in the 70′s and the subsequent passing of my grandfather, the business that sent us to school abruptly died.
The firework galore that you saw must have been made from our barrio by my uncle and his son who are continuing the tradition.
Two years after not seeing any firework display in our town, I finally saw a spectacular one in San Diego on my first 4th of July Independence Day in the states in 1975.
On Tuesday, we’re celebrating another 4th, and like in the past we’re always out in the mall parking lot watching the show that my grandfather and father left me to remember them by.
Joe
I love fireworks display. I didn’t know it was an industry in Laguna before Martial Law. WHen I was a kid, we used to go to Bocaue in Bulacan to buy fireworks.