The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
I will be out of town with my family by the time this entry is published. We’re taking a few days off to attend to some family matters and, hopefully, we will be able to squeeze in some R&R as well. Meanwhile, I have imported all the content of the Sugar & Spice blog (you ... (more)
It happens all the time. I go to the supermarket, try out some new brands or food products, and they just rot in the fridge because they taste so bad no one wants a second bite. How wasteful. I buy household items like electric fans and they conk out just a short time after the ... (more)
The Mommy Journals will be moving to a new server sometime over the weekend on Saturday evening, Manila time. Same webhost; new server. It’ll take a little while for the DNS to propagate. Comments posted during the interim may disappear once the new DNS has fully propagated. Sorry for the inconvenience but this is the ... (more)
Last summer, my daughters started a cat and kitten blog — a repository, actually, of the countless photos they have taken of our pet cats and kittens. When the schoolyear began, the project had to take a backseat. Then, I revived it after I acquired my own pet cat. Well, sometimes, things have a way ... (more)
I’m hoping that posting will be back to its normal pace by tomorrow as we wind up fixing some technical problems. I won’t bore you with the details save to say that I believe, now more than ever, that it isn’t a good idea to make decisions — especially major ones — in a fit ... (more)
Comments posted between October 13 and today are kinda floating somewhere on the web. Everything’s being done to retrieve them. Never mind what happened. Long and sad story. If you happen to see them around, I’d appreciate a holler or something. Something tells me it’s gonna be a loooong night. I really need a vacation. ... (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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