The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
If you’re a new reader, I’ll tell you something that everyone else probably knows already — I take photos everyday. Well, almost everyday. I have to make exceptions for the days when I was sick like that time when a horrid (kidding!) doctor took out my gall bladder and I felt my mortality a hundred ... (more)
The time we bought fruit trees to plant in the garden, Speedy bought a talumpunay (sometimes spelled talampunay) tree. He planted it in a far corner of the garden near the gazebo that we converted into an outdoor kitchen. It’s grown big, it’s thriving and it’s flowering. The scientific name is Datura metel, there are ... (more)
Two nights ago, Speedy and I were watching TV in the family room when Alex walked in. Wearing an expression that was a picture of disgust and tension, she asked, “May utak ba ang butiki (Do lizards have brains)?” She and I both knew it was a DUH question and she was just being sarcastic ... (more)
Over the past few months, water supply in our subdivision is cut off at night and I have been unable to invite my mother, who lives in the city, to spend a few days with us this summer as she requires running water 24/7. I told her about our water situation and, just yesterday, she ... (more)
Yesterday after lunch, Speedy and I were having coffee in the bedroom. The sliding door leading to the garden was open and I had a good view of the portion of the garden where the two sili (chili pepper) plants grow. One of the two sili plants, the taller one, is propped up with a ... (more)
Speedy always intended to construct a movable (rolling) cooking station using the cooking hob and oven from the old house. It would have been swell to put it next to be gazebo so we could cook and eat outdoors without too much going back and forth. But, for more than a year, the project kept getting pushed aside…
So, the gazebo turned into a white elephant. For months. Until inspiration struck. I’d construct an outdoor kitchen right there. Easy enough to set up the table and chairs under the mango tree for dining.
The kaffir lime keeps dying on me but the native lime tree is now bearing fruits. Pretty soon, I won’t have have to use bottle lime juice to make my Silom Sunrise. I’ll just have to go to the garden, pick a lime or two off the tree, cut them and squeeze them… ahhh, the thought is so wonderful. Fresh fruits. From my garden…
But what’s Silom Sunrise? Ooohh, you don’t know?
Feng shui believers and practitioners say it is lucky if your house or building stands on a lot with a dragon underneath. But it is unlucky if the house or the building is right above the head of the dragon. Or something like that. But what if the dragon on your property is suspended in air and right beside your house?
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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