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Pasta is versatile because you can just toss it with a flavorful sauce, sprinkle it with cheese and you have a delicious meal. You don’t need...
In April, 2003, I posted a tuna lumpia (spring rolls) recipe using cooked fresh tuna. That recipe was updated (with better photos) in 2011. Although I...
I have to admit that when the weather is unfriendly, my brain goes on vacation. The humidity today was so suffocating and my creative juices just...
Today is about bangus, or milkfish, (which, as it turns out is NOT the national fish of the Philippines). Not because I’m feeling nationalistic but because...
In the arroz amarillo post, reader Sam mentioned cilantro rice. I said I’ve come across it but under a different name — arroz verde. I also...
The traditional way of cooking sweet and sour fish is to use large fish, dredge it in starch, deep fry it until crisp, then pour the...
Inspired by how wonderfully the suman with dulce de leche dipping sauce turned out, I decided to create a similar dessert (or snack) using practically the...
If I had saffron water to drizzle over the rice after cooking, and if I had used cashew nuts instead of peanuts, this would be a...
Armed with the information that saluyot is slimy, I combined the saluyot leaves with spinach to make a chunky saluyot and spinach soup with pork that...
A one-pot dish that’s a breeze to prepare. The sausage meat makes the broth rich in taste while the vegetables and pasta make the soup very...
I am on a rice journey. And now that I am learning so much about Latin American cooking, including Mexican cuisine, I am discovering so many...
This is a tomato-based soup quite similar to the tomato soup with tripe and sausage but with a few significant differences. First, the ox tripe and...
One thing I like about ground meat is how it is such a budget stretcher. A little goes a long, long way. Even if a lot...
It’s still the very basic and very easy to make pasta aglio e olio. Two additions, though. The first is an ingredient; the second is both...
In About Chinese sausages, I asked how you readers like to cook them and there was a comment that stood out. While most, myself included, fry...
I'm Connie Veneracion, retired lawyer and columnist, wife for 28 years and mom of two.
CASA means house, but it is also an acronym for the first names of the Veneracion family.
What is this blog about? Well, blogs, actually, because there are five that live in this domain.
Take your pick, have a nice time during your visit, and hope you come back soon.