
In a previous entry, I mentioned the booming woodcraft industry in Sta. Rosa, Laguna -- that stretch that leads to Tagaytay. This photo shows an example of the kind of solid … [Read more...]
Family, food, photography

In a previous entry, I mentioned the booming woodcraft industry in Sta. Rosa, Laguna -- that stretch that leads to Tagaytay. This photo shows an example of the kind of solid … [Read more...]

Unlike blog themes which I can change just about as often as the mood hits me, changing how a house, or sections of a house, looks is not as easy. It costs money (as against … [Read more...]

Last Saturday, we had a party. A joint birthday party -- mine, Buddy's (my brother-in-law) and Buddy's girlfriend, Laura. A family affair, really, but Speedy has a big family … [Read more...]
Flashback: the magazine page with a photo of the dining chairs I wanted. Thirty days later, the dining set was delivered together with the living room furniture and bar … [Read more...]
Several weeks ago I posted photos of catalog pages from which our living room and dining room furniture would be patterned. Well, the furniture was finally delivered last … [Read more...]
Yesterday was order-the-furniture day. We already had "some ideas" about where to buy the furniture but we had not really made up our minds. We had scoured more than a dozen … [Read more...]

You can prepare this drink in two ways -- as a cocktail drink or as a non-alcoholic iced beverage. If course, the non-alcoholic version won’t be a anything similar to a mojito and you can … »»

Need to get dinner on the table in 15 minutes? No problem. Season some ground meat, form into patties, throw into the skillet and cook until nicely browned. Cook sliced mushrooms in the … »»

One of the most widely known Chinese dishes outside of Asia is General Tso’s chicken -- floured bite-size chicken pieces fried until crisp then tossed in sweet-salty sauce. This is the … »»

It's tempting to simply ask that you Google "Connie Veneracion" or "Sassy Lawyer" or "Pinoy Cook" and have this page done with. But that might give you the wrong idea about me. A third of what's been written about me is true, a third is half-true and the rest consists of drug-induced hallucinations. I suppose I'd better let me, rather than them, tell you about me. I'm … »

*This article was last updated on October 2, 2011. 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 … »






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