We squeeze them over our food, we drink their juice with water and honey but how many have noticed what the kalamansi looks like inside?
The first photo was taken with an Olympus MJU 410; the second, with a Canon Powershot A410.
The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
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Goto (beef tripe) congee
Terms can be confusing. When one says "goto" in the Philippines, he can be … »»
Pesang dalag (mudfish in light soup) with miso sauce
It isn't necessary that you cook pesa (a light soup flavored with ginger … »»
Suman at latik (rice cakes with coconut jam)
Suman is a rice cake and there are as many varieties as there are towns and … »»
Butter – fried suman and ripe mangoes
When my in-laws came over on Sunday, they brought a huge bunch of suman and … »»
More cooking, wining & dining
Is batotoy a local name for Anadara granosa (blood cockles)?
The last time I heard the word batotoy, I was buying longganisa (native … »»
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. … »»
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
Lobster balls and long beans stir fry
Sam likes buying those frozen seafood balls in the grocery -- fish balls, … (more...)
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...)
Beautiful! And yes, we’ve almost taken for granted the inner beauty of kalamansi.