The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Dreamworks’ Sinbad was on Cartoon Network last night and Alex was already watching it when I entered the family room. I had never seen it before and I didn’t know whether I was seeing a scene from the first half, the third quarter or the last five minutes of the movie. I didn’t recognize the ... (more)
Driving home, all I could think about was how the iPhone would work with my SMART sim card, if it would reject it, if there really was a defect and if I would have to return it. When I couldn’t connect to the web and couldn’t get the e-mail to work — I got the message that I was not subscribed to EDGE — I was so sure we bought a lemon and was about to cry. I searched the web for answers, found nothing and got progressively depressed.
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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