The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
The space that I converted to my study/office was originally designed as a family room. There used to be built-in TV and DVD cabinets but I had them replaced with desks and bookshelves. The space opens to the living room below. There is a railing on one end where we can see directly into the ... (more)
Last night, we arrived home at 8.20 with a trunk full of grocery bags. I rang the doorbell, no one opened the front door. Thinking that the house helpers didn’t hear, Speedy opened the front door with his key, I proceeded out back and knocked on the helpers’ room to tell them that there were ... (more)
One of the secrets to keeping a well-organized home is to have everything in its proper place, right? No stray object and no accumulated junk. I’m not much of a housekeeper but I know enough to realize that the slow accumulation of junk is the fastest way to put your house in a topsy-turvy situation. ... (more)
(Today’s column) We had our occasional red meat last Sunday. We really wanted steaks and mashed potatoes but S&R ran out of rib eye steaks so my husband bought pork loin instead. Then, he cooked tequila porkloin, a beloved dish from Tucker Shaw’s “Gentlemen, Start Your Ovens: Killer Recipes for Guys”. Sunday in our house ... (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 … »»
Earlier this week, I found these lovely jars at the supermarket. Just the right size for the content of packets of dried herbs and spices. I found seven of them on the shelf, I bought them all, and I would have bought more had the supermarket not run out of stocks. 
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