The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
If you’re familiar with the 1986 film About Last Night, there’s a part where the lead female character Deborah describes to her friend, Joan, the dining arrangement she has with her live-in partner, Danny. Two nights a week, I cook. Two nights a week, he cooks. Two nights, we go out. And then, there’s sandwich ... (more)
The other night, on a whim, Speedy and I went out at midnight for some food tripping. You can read about our Banchetto adventure at the food blog. Driving home, Speedy remarked that it was the third night in a row that he drove out at midnight and returned two hours or so later. See, ... (more)
Adverts related to Valentine’s Day proliferate on the internet, in newspapers, magazines, on the road… Restaurant menus are modified to highlight romantic dinners and, surprisingly or not, hotels and motels offer special rates and packages at this time of the year. Chocolates, often packed in fancy heart-shaped boxes and tied with bright red ribbons dominate ... (more)
It’s kind of serendipitous to write about our tiny vegetable patch in the garden now that Tangled is showing in local movie houses. Tangled is, of course, a spin on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Rapunzel, a story about a pregnant woman who was pining for the rapunzel (a vegetable) in the neighbor’s garden. In ... (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 … »»
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