The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
My family was in Balay Indang again last weekend and it was a total gastronomic experience as usual. If you haven’t heard of the place, it’s the subject of a feature article (“Peace and tranquility at Balay Indang,”? May 17, 2007) that was published in this paper. In a nutshell, Balay Indang is an inn and getaway to soothe city-weary nerves “? guesthouses, pavilion and cabanas scattered over huge Zen gardens…
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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 »)
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