The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
One of the many old houses that still stand in Intramuros. Many of them, considered heritage sites in accordance with an international World Heritage program by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972, have been converted to restaurants and shops that cater to tourists.
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In the olden days, monggo (mung beans) is soaked, boiled, mashed then … »»
If you want a delicious and great-looking main dish for noche buena, … »»
The last time I heard the word batotoy, I was buying longganisa (native … »»
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. … »»
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 »)
Sam likes buying those frozen seafood balls in the grocery -- fish balls, … (more...)
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...)
Jose Rizal never attended Letran.He got his Bachelor of Arts,the equivalent of our present high school diploma, from the Ateneo. He then went to the University of Santo Tomas for his pre-med and the first two years of Medicine proper.