The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
I saw this gorgeous and seemingly simple recipe for Oreo cheese cupcakes in Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes cookbook and decided I was going to make some. I was so sure it was going to be an enormous success that I took photos of every step of the procedure because I intended to post the recipe with the photos in my food blog. Well, that’s the only photo I’m going to show the Internet at this point. The cheese cupcakes were, well…
When people ask how I am able to take step-by-step photos for the recipe entries in my food blog like this and this, I tell them, in all honesty, “With difficulty.” It means mounting the camera on the tripod, stopping after every step of the cooking procedure to take photos and, more often than not, ... (more)
Clafouti (or clafoutis) is a custard like cake of French origin traditionally made with cherries. I baked mine with blackberries, the texture was light at the center and wonderfully crusty around the edges, but there was one problem. I didn’t know that blackberries have small seeds which really proved to be irritating while eating the darn cake. Next time I make a clafouti, I’ll use blueberries or strawberries instead unless I manage to find fresh or frozen cherries.
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.
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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 »)
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