The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
With the rising incidence of obesity among children in the U.S., a group is calling for “an end to commercialization of childhood.” A case of luring kids to eat junk food by enticing them with toys. The most recent target is McDonald’s Happy Meal. It ought to be a global campaign. And every food company ... (more)
If you’re one of those parents who follow health news closely for the sake of your family and you use a lot of olive oil in your cooking hoping to keep the cholesterol levels down, you ought to know that whenever you buy a bottle of extra virgin olive oil, you might be getting something ... (more)
Are commercial tube ice and crushed ice made from bottled water? You know, we’re so careful about what we drink but we don’t really ask what kind of water is used for making commercially sold ice that goes into our drinks. When we eat out, we order juices. In fastfood outlets, it’s softdrinks. And they are served with ice. Ice made with bottled water or not? Filtered, at least?
You may or may not know it but I write for a magazine called Code Red. Unlike most magazines in the market that cater to the consumer in us, Code Red articles are about family values written from the point of view of both parents and children. I love it for its lack of crass ... (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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