The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.

The classic adobong sitaw gets more than a superficial facelift with the … »»

To say that the English translation for suman is rice cake is a bit … »»

Kamoteng-kahoy (cassava) is a root crop. Even if you're not familiar with … »»

Surprisingly, there is no pancit bihon recipe in my archives. There is a … »»

No, I've never been to P.F. Chang's although I read that the U.S. food … »»

The most serious reason I missed my pressure cooker was because I love, … »»

The last time I heard the word batotoy, I was buying longganisa (native … »»

After a quick trip to the market, Speedy checked his Facebook account, … »»

Still experimenting with alternative methods of cooking, after using the … »»





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 versions of houseonahill and pinoycook weren't … (click here to read all »)

The avocado was supposed to go into sushi but I cooked all the Japanese … (more...)

Sam likes buying those frozen seafood balls in the grocery -- fish balls, … (more...)

It has a graham cracker crust and it is baked but at a lower temperature … (more...)

If you Google "melon cocktail", you'll find that there are two categories. … (more...)

According to Tastefully Done, age means deep fried and dashi, of course, is … (more...)
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