My daughter Sam and some of the colorful birds that kept following her around.
Visiting the MMLDC aviary is free to the public.
The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
May is Filipino fiesta month
Adobong sitaw sa gata (yard-long beans adobo with coconut cream)
There are at least three adobong sitaw recipes in this blog -- classic, … »»
Pork adobo with liver sauce
Note: This is an updated version of a previously published recipe. Adobo … »»
How to make buko (coconut) and pandan jelly drink
The term "buko pandan" can mean either of two things. The first is buko … »»
Goto (beef tripe) congee
Congee (lugaw) is a national midday or mid-afternoon merienda (snack). It … »»
Lumpiang labong (bamboo shoots spring rolls)
I would have made lumpiang ubod (heart of palm spring rolls) but that … »»
More cooking, wining & dining
Pressure cooker salay-ginto (yellowstripe scad) with coconut milk
The most serious reason I missed my pressure cooker was because I love, … »»
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 … »»
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...)
What a wonderful way to spend the day. The birds are just so beautiful and your pictures are so clear. With your permission, I intend to download and use them as models to paint a few of them. May I??
You paint? Wow! Which ones would you like to paint? I can e-mail them in larger formats so you can see more details.
Sassy,
Thank you for your kind offer. The colorful Macaw’s are definite. Also the totally yellow Parakeet (page 3) and the yellow Parakeet with black and yellow design on it’s wings, (page 4). The Victoria Crown Pigeon is a real beauty, I love it’s fan shaped crown, they look just like an artist fan brush. It’s crown will pose a challenge to paint.
I love to paint flowers and painting these colorful birds is similar.
Sassy,
I’ll e-mail pictures to you of the bird paintings upon completion of them.
George
George, I’m getting an error. The mail bounced. Says you don’t have a yahoo account. Can you e-mail me at sassy(d0t)lawyer(at)gmail(d0t)com and I’ll send the photos in my replies?
OK Sassy, it’s done. Hope I didn’t forget to put something on my e-mail address….stranger things have happened.
Thanks,
George