The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
I envy him. On scorching summer days, he could enjoy the rain all day long with just the flick of a switch. Me? I keep wishing for the rain to come. It did. For about ten minutes. And only just enough to make the grass damp. The photo was taken at Balay Indang about two ... (more)
A fruit stall in Tagaytay City.
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.
A couple of weekends ago, we visited two farms in Cavite — the Ilog Maria Honeybee Farm and Gourmet Cafe’s herb and vegetable farm. The cow photos were taken at neither location — we found them on an open field between the two farms.
Years ago, I bought a hammock thinking it would be swell to read a book under a tree. I don’t know what I associated the idea with, I did not grow up in the province where things like these are nothing extraordinary. It just seemed so rustic and tranquil and, for a girl who grew up in the city, almost surreal. To my dismay, the droppings of the insects living on the tree kept falling on me.
Published in the Life & Travel section of Manila Standard Today The place was first recommended by a fellow lawyer who spent a few days there with her family. Then, it was again recommended by a fellow blogger who took his family there to celebrate their wedding anniversary and his wife’s birthday. I needed no ... (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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