The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Sam is on YM and asking for the birthday gift that I’m still saving up for — a flash for her dSLR. Of course, I’m going to get her one — she’s taking up A.B. Photography after all so I can’t say that a flash is a luxury. She’ll need one pretty soon for school ... (more)
If there’s one thing I liked about Global City, it was the absence of jeepneys and tricycles. Not anymore. There are tricycles in Global City now. Powered by electricity and imported from Japan according to the drivers. But they’re still tricycles. If their numbers aren’t controlled, they will overrun Global City in much the same way that Pasig has become tricycle country.
Sam celebrated her 17th birthday on August 20 but she was in the dorm so we had a belated celebration last night with dinner at Furusato Restaurant on Roxas Boulevard. We were craving for coffee and sweets after dinner and drove to Bonifacio High Street to find a place were we could get decent coffee. But it was so darn warm and humid that instead of looking for the place with the best coffee and best dessert, we ended up at the first airconditioned establishment that we saw that offered coffee and sweets.
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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