The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
July 4 used to be a public holiday in the Philippines. I don’t know if it is still tagged as Filipino-American Friendship Day but I do know that for the past several years, it has been a regular working day and school day. So I don’t think much about it. Unlike when I was a ... (more)
From my June 13th op-ed column: When we entered the Subic Expressway earlier in the day, we were handed flyers that said all duty-free shops would be open until midnight all throughout the Independence Day weekend. There would also be fireworks at midnight… We were about 10 meters away from where the fireworks were lighted ... (more)
There’s a funny story behind these fireworks photo. We finished dinner about 10 minutes before the fireworks show was scheduled to start at 9.00 p.m. My tripod was still in the car and our parking slot was a good 5-minute walk away. My husband went to get the tripod and he got back just a ... (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 … »»
Conversations