The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
The following photos constitute the first of six batches of photos taken by my 14-year-old daughter Sam during their school’s three-day trip to the Pawikan Conservation Project in Barangay Nagbalayong, Morong, Bataan.
The community-based project is funded by the UNDP Global Environment Facility.
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Summer came suddenly. One day it was cool and breezy; the next day, it was … »»
Sotanghon (vermicelli), shredded chicken, chopped black fungus and … »»
In the olden days, monggo (mung beans) is soaked, boiled, mashed then … »»
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The most serious reason I missed my pressure cooker was because I love, … »»
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Still experimenting with alternative methods of cooking, after using the … »»
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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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