The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Last Friday, we had pizza delivered at home. When I placed the order over the telephone, I specifically asked for change for a thousand pesos. When the delivery guy arrived, he had no change with him. Sam had the exact amount and offered to pay. I replaced the one thousand peso bill inside the right ... (more)
The neighbor’s laundrywoman, accompanied by another who also does laundry and ironing for some other neighbors, was here earlier and she was recommending her niece who would be coming from Bicol. Both knew our former house helpers and both were well aware of the working conditions in this house. Good food. Early nights. Wages paid on time. The former house helpers had apparently been bragging about how good they had it.
This is a two-year-old video clip of a maid (nanny?) physically abusing a young girl. I first saw a truncated version in Facebook and I had to do my own search to find the source. It is authentic, it happened in Kuala Lumpur, the children’s parents were the ones who installed the camera and that ... (more)
At 10.30 a.m. today, one of the house helpers came up to my study to tell me that we had no more rice to cook for lunch. Wow, and I was hoping for a leisurely day. We had a huge bowl of leftover stir fried beef and vegetables that I cooked for the kids’ packed ... (more)
When the civil case filed by the former domestic helper of Lauro Baja Jr. against the ex-Ambassador to the United Nations hit the headlines, I was a hundred and ten percent certain that three extremist camps would make themselves visible, each taking a different stand as to which party is guilty and which is innocent. ... (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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