The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Let’s take a break from serious (and, often, morose) topics to give way to an important announcement. Sam came home this weekend to welcome four new members of the family. No, we didn’t adopt. Pepper gave birth two nights ago and we have four new kittens who, we hope (Sam, especially), will all grow into ... (more)
Many photo buffs are bokeh crazy. Blurred backgrounds are pretty and they don’t clutter the photo so that the viewer’s attention stays focused on the subject. Blurred backgrounds (and even foregrounds) are achieved by using a shallow depth of field, the most common technique being the use of a wide aperture setting. But what if ... (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 … »»
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