If you look close enough, you can see me in the photo. The golden ox (not real gold) paper weight is a gift from a bank where we have an account. Nice departure from the usual calendar and umbrella giveaways.
The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
May is Filipino fiesta month
Labahita (surgeonfish) with spicy coconut cream sauce
Filipino and Thai cooking intersect in many ways as we share a lot of … »»
Mixed vegetables with coconut cream
An updated version of a recipe in the archive. Now includes additional … »»
Chocolate fondue and suman (rice cakes)
The suman (rice cake) and chocolate combination is nothing unusual. In … »»
Turon (banana spring rolls) with bacon and cheese
When does your weekend start? Like most Filipino families, ours used to … »»
Rice pudding with custard topping
It isn't difficult to do this dish but for someone like me who still cooks … »»
More cooking, wining & dining
If you’ve heard of P.F. Chang’s Mongolian beef, this is the pork version
No, I've never been to P.F. Chang's although I read that the U.S. food … »»
Pressure cooker salay-ginto (yellowstripe scad) with coconut milk
The most serious reason I missed my pressure cooker was because I love, … »»
Is batotoy a local name for Anadara granosa (blood cockles)?
The last time I heard the word batotoy, I was buying longganisa (native … »»
For St. Patrick’s Day: after dinner mint
After a quick trip to the market, Speedy checked his Facebook account, … »»
Slow cooker recipe: Bacon, cheese and potato casserole
Still experimenting with alternative methods of cooking, after using the … »»
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
Avocado, tomato and onion salad
The avocado was supposed to go into sushi but I cooked all the Japanese … (more...)
Lobster balls and long beans stir fry
Sam likes buying those frozen seafood balls in the grocery -- fish balls, … (more...)
Mango cheese pie: something between a cheesecake and a custard
It has a graham cracker crust and it is baked but at a lower temperature … (more...)
Melon cocktail with grape syrup
If you Google "melon cocktail", you'll find that there are two categories. … (more...)
Agedashi tofu
According to Tastefully Done, age means deep fried and dashi, of course, is … (more...)
Wow, pretty cool as a bank give away. I remember I normally get umbrellas and caps. I saw you on the photo. =)
Cute, noh? That’s why it’s on a table top rather than in some forgotten corner of the house hehehehe