The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
About two months ago, there was a graphic circulating on Facebook about the proper posture when working on the computer. For starters, the table shouldn’t be higher than the elbow, the back should be touching the chair’s backrest and the feet should be flat on the floor. If the chair is too high that the ... (more)
New Year’s Eve was family day. It always is. And while we don’t do traditional stuff that are associated with superstitious beliefs, there are some traditional activities that we take part in. Like attending an annual reunion of Speedy’s clan (on his mother’s side) for lunch. While it’s always good to see the same old ... (more)
Until yesterday, I wasn’t sure if it was a he or a she. I thought it was a she because it has boobies. But Sam said male cats have boobies just like female cats. I checked near the tail to see if it had balls but I couldn’t understand what I saw. So, I just ... (more)
The house-hunting is on a standstill. I keep getting outvoted. No one wants to live in a high-rise condo because of the pets. There has to be a place for the pets, according to Sam. Where we can find a house this size, with grounds as large or larger, that we can afford is beyond ... (more)
Let’s take a break from serious (and, often, morose) topics to give way to an important announcement. Sam came home this weekend to welcome four new members of the family. No, we didn’t adopt. Pepper gave birth two nights ago and we have four new kittens who, we hope (Sam, especially), will all grow into ... (more)
Yesterday after lunch, Speedy and I were having coffee in the bedroom. The sliding door leading to the garden was open and I had a good view of the portion of the garden where the two sili (chili pepper) plants grow. One of the two sili plants, the taller one, is propped up with a ... (more)
They’re both male, they’re not related by blood and the white one, Maki, is as virile as most he-cats I’ve known. The smaller one, though, whom we call Pssst because we can’t agree on a name for him, is more mild-mannered and more of a follower than an instigator. We have also observed how he ... (more)
Back in the old neighborhood, there was a stray male cat that got all our female cats pregnant. He was a large cat, black and white (we called him Blackie), and there were times when he would sneak inside the house. He got Sam’s old cat, Bebe (a stray kitten that we adopted), pregnant more ... (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 »)
I finally bought a new tripod. I good and sturdy one. And I was going to take photos of the thing and post them along with some tips on what features to look for and what things to consider when buying a tripod. But Pepper had other ideas.
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