The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
A week ago, my husband and I had lunch at Genia’s in Marikina. It is a carinderia that we have been loyal patrons of for over a decade. Just like most of Marikina, Genia’s was submerged in neck-deep floods when typhoon Ondoy hit the country and we were only too happy to know that a ... (more)
In Marikina City, the gay community holds it annual Santacruzan, a commemoration of the mythical search of St. Helene, mother of Constantine the Great, for the Holy Cross. The religious underpinnings of the event was somehow integrated with the tropical summer and the lush flowers that bloom during the month of May. Flores de Mayo, ... (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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