
One of my favorite past times is browsing through house designs. I frequent sites like this, this, this and this and I imagine what it would be like to live in one of those … [Read more...]
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One of my favorite past times is browsing through house designs. I frequent sites like this, this, this and this and I imagine what it would be like to live in one of those … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

The first time I heard of an inverter, it was in relation with air-conditioners. We were planning on converting my study into a home theater, we were discussing … [Read more...]

My grade school teacher said gas is invisible. Steam is water in its gaseous state. Steam can be seen even by the naked eye. Ergo, my teacher was wrong. … [Read more...]

I think I've mentioned it before -- standard house designs in the Philippines don't include storage space. We have a number of cabinets above the closets in all bedrooms and … [Read more...]

Sam and I were having brunch earlier. Part of the conversation went like this. Me: "I want to build a bigger house." Sam: "Where will you build it?" Me: "In that huge … [Read more...]
I chopped peaches and plums, baked a cake, and it wasn't too good. Photos were decent though. Well, decently sharp, that is. Sam has a not-too-decent description of the stone … [Read more...]
When news reports about the alleged dangers of granite countertops (link points to a New York Times article -- you may need to register for a FREE account to view it) in the … [Read more...]

For someone like me who loathes knick-knacks and flower vases (especially with plastic flowers), the idea of decorating a house with functional pieces is more appealing. … [Read more...]
The kitchen (the entire ground floor, in fact) had an all-white motif when we first saw the house. This was how the kitchen looked. Four days ago, the renovations in … [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...]
The kitchen of the new house was designed with a cooking range in mind. What we have right now is an Ariston cooking hob glued into the marble countertop and an Ariston … [Read more...]

I grew up with a huge frost-free Kelvinator. When Speedy and I bought our first fridge back in the 1990s, we ditched the "frost-free" feature to save on power consumption. It … [Read more...]

If you need interior design inspiration, there's nothing like browsing through books. The idea, of course, is not to copy what's in the book but to come up with a personal … [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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