The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
I used to think I made good gravy. I’d boil the neck and giblets of a duck or turkey then thicken it with pureed liver. Well, the gravy would always be good but, recently, I discovered how much better it can be. A week or so before Christmas, TLC aired Jamie Oliver’s Christmas specials and ... (more)
I don’t know what Jamie Oliver means by cotechino sausage, we buy our deli sausages from S&R most of the time and a vacuum-sealed spicy sausage that I bought a couple of weeks ago was what Speedy used for this risotto. And I must say he has outdone himself again. Perhaps, there something about a ... (more)
Every time Speedy cooks risotto, it’s better than the previous one. We had this asparagus, mint and lemon risotto for lunch today and, I tell you, with risotto this good, I’m learning to appreciate meatless meals more and more. This risotto recipe was adapted from Jamie Oliver’s. We don’t cook large asparagus at home, only ... (more)
Based on a recipe by Jamie Oliver that Speedy saw him cook on his TV show. Speedy avoided button mushrooms because Jamie Oliver empathically said please, not button mushrooms. I wondered why but, after tasting the cooked risotto, the why just seemed irrelevant. I was quite willing to eat nothing but this mushroom risotto for ... (more)
Question: When a recipe calls for butterflied chicken, where do you make the cut — down the back or the breast? See, I always cut down the breast. You can see that in the chicken piri piri and chicken inasal recipes. Then, I saw Jamie Oliver butterflying a chicken by cutting down its back. And ... (more)
Inspired by a recipe from Jamie Oliver. The soup is so rich and thick and filling. Serve it with generous slices of French baguette and you have a complete lunch that won’t leave you craving for more. I was so full that I couldn’t even manage the slice of brazo de Mercedes that Speedy was ... (more)
British chef Jamie Oliver has hit the headlines again. He criticized his fellow Brits by saying the quality of British cuisine has deteriorated because the Britons prefer to get drunk rather than eat. Based on comments posted in The Telegraph, some of his countrymen agree while others are furious, one even calling Oliver a “self-opinionated ... (more)
Cooking meat in milk is not new. There was a pork cooked in milk recipe in a 1970s something cookbook that came with our SEB pressure cooker when I was a little girl. I tried it, liked it, and I’ve cooked it many times before. Jamie Oliver has a chicken in milk recipe which has been tried and enjoyed by a mom in Kuwait. I saw a photo from her entry in Food Gawker yesterday and decided I would do my own version. With a twist, naturally. Yogurt instead of milk and with cubes of fresh ripe mangoes.
How did it turn out? Can I brag just this one time?
The idea came from a fish dish that Jamie Oliver did in one of his cooking shows. He pressed the herbs and spices into the fish fillets and then fried them. I did it the way he did some months ago and the herbs burned before the fish was cooked through. Perhaps, the temperature of ... (more)
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 … »»
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