The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
A week before undas*, we visited the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial at Fort Bonifacio. Not to visit any particular grave — we don’t know anyone who’s buried there — but to take photos. We were supposed to go there a week earlier but it was a little after 5.00 p.m. when we got there ... (more)
(Today’s column in Manila Standard Today. The photos only appear here and not on the print and online versions of the paper.) There were no Halloween parties when I was a kid. There were no days and days of preparation for costumes and décor that culminated in the trick or treat event on the night ... (more)
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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