Waterfalls by the roadside in Atimonan, Quezon. The photo below shows the waterfalls amid the thick vegetation of the area.
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Daddy in the kitchen
Carbonara, the (almost) traditional way
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Lemongrass and chili stuffed tofu
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Melon cocktail with grape syrup
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Cooking with bits and pieces
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Milkshake with dulce de leche mudslide
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Creamed sausage, potato and cabbage soup a la zuppa Toscana
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Basil and garlic focaccia
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Steamed bangus (milkfish) with black bean and garlic sauce
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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
Fried breaded okra
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Oshitashi or goma-ae? Whatever. It’s spinach salad with roasted sesame dressing
When I first came across this spinach recipe in The New York Times health … (more...)
Pancit Molo (or is it Molo soup?)
This is an updated version of a recipe originally published on September … (more...)
Melon, ginger ale and peppermint slush
In the Philippines, melon usually refers to the cantaloupe or rockmelon. … (more...)
Sausage, pasta, tomato and cabbage soup
A one-pot dish that's a breeze to prepare. The sausage meat makes the broth … (more...)
I have never seen this place before. My dad is from atimonan. On which road is this located?