The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Last month, Speedy and I went to see another play. Alex was the production’s assistant lighting designer. I won’t beat around the bush. Alex is my daughter, she likes me to write about her theatrical projects, I want to be encouraging and supportive but I also want to be honest. Love, Pain and Everything In ... (more)
A few years ago, a girl friend visited her younger brother’s new house and told us about the ornamental mirrors on the floor. Okay, I grew up with mirrors on the wall, at eye level, so I was more than a bit surprised. I said, “…on the floor?” “Yes,” my friend said. Her sister-in-law told ... (more)
In the sticky rice congee post, I mentioned how Alex got really ill after a hectic theater production. The production was Hedda Gabler. I offered to write a review, I think Alex was worried that I might lambast it, she said no review, so I didn’t. There were certain aspects of the play that I ... (more)
When the girls arrive for the weekend, everything begins with unloading bags of dirty clothes from the pick-up which get dumped in the living room until they can go into the washing machine the next day. Along with the bags of clothes are camera bags, laptop bags, folders, papers and every imaginable thing that college ... (more)
To understand this post, you have to read its predecessor, Tie-dye: how Sam spruced up old t-shirts, which happened on September 19 and was posted as a blog entry on September 20. The following photos were taken a week later. We had run out of old t-shirts for Sam to work on so I bought ... (more)
At around 4 p.m. on Sunday, Sam asked me what kind of dye is used for tie-dying. How would I know? I wasn’t even familiar with the term “tie-dye.” I searched Google, discovered that tie-dye is a process of creating patterns on clothes and I remembered that this was an activity that both Sam and ... (more)
Asian images of Buddha and a dragon at the entrance of Gourmet’s Cafe. The Buddha figure is common enough but the metal sculpture of the dragon is truly a work of art.
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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