The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Kitten Pepper doesn’t look too happy in the photo, does she? She probably thought she was being gift-wrapped to be given away. But of course, she wasn’t! We ordered a cake over a week ago and it came in a box tied with a red ribbon. My 13-year-old daughter Alex just thought it would be interesting to photograph Pepper with a red ribbon around her neck.
By the way, Pepper now answers to the name “Pretty.” 
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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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An intelligent kitty, who knows her name starts with “P”
Rosanne has a cocker spaniel, Cooper, who knows his name is ‘ooper’ or something. When I call him Super Duper Pooper Cooper Wooper he comes. Or maybe he’s just uber-friendly.