The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
I think I’ve mentioned it before — standard house designs in the Philippines don’t include storage space. We have a number of cabinets above the closets in all bedrooms and that’s about it. So the trick really to avoid house clutter is to dispose of something (sell, give away) every time you buy something new. ... (more)
To answer the question in the title: it depends on what kind of cook you are, how large your kitchen is and how your kitchen is organized. If you’re the kind of cook who likes to prepare several dishes at the same time, an extra work space is more than welcome. If your kitchen is ... (more)
I have two school-aged children and they bring packed lunches and snacks to school. If the viand for the packed lunch needs a dipping sauce or a condiment, is it advisable to pile the ketchup on the frittata, for instance? My kids don’t like that. They don’t want to open their lunch boxes to find ... (more)
When you buy dried herbs in the supermarket, they usually come in dispensers. The screw type cover normally has two flip-type openings. One opening is large enough to accommodate a teaspoon and the other has several small holes for sprinkling the contents on the food. There are spices, however, especially local ones, that come in ... (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.
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 … »»
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