The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
On May 13th last year, less than a week after I got my Canon EOS 350, a Mother’s Day gift from my husband, I went out of the house, took a leisurely walk and took photos of anything and everything that I found interesting. I even went to the subdivision next to ours which has a fantastic view of the hills of the towns of Montalban and San Mateo.
Above, deep pink bougainville cascading down a concrete wall.
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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 ยป)
The avocado was supposed to go into sushi but I cooked all the Japanese rice we had to make oyakudon. Sam looked at the … (more...)
Sam likes buying those frozen seafood balls in the grocery -- fish balls, squid balls, shrimp balls, prawn balls, crab balls, … (more...)
It has a graham cracker crust and it is baked but at a lower temperature and without the baine marie. It has all the … (more...)
If you Google "melon cocktail", you'll find that there are two categories. The first is an alcoholic drink; the second is a … (more...)
According to Tastefully Done, age means deep fried and dashi, of course, is the stock made with bonito flakes and kelp. … (more...)
that is a kapok tree. ready for plucking, used for making pillow filler and other such stuff… visayan name is duldol. tagalog name is bulak. Ceiba Pentandra is the botanical name.
missed you and your blog. watched you over channel 43 ANC. remembered your birthday, etc… still “in-love” with you.