The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
The time I wrote a column about our visit to the Blanco Family Art Museum in Angono, Rizal, I mentioned that one of the Blanco progenies is a classmate of Alex. Yesterday, Alex handed me a greeting card with a reproduction of an oil painting of Mayon Volcano and said it was from the museum. ... (more)
The first thing that struck me when I first saw Mayon Volcano was how awesome it was. Awesome in its immensity, awesome in its perfect form, awesome in its power that, most of the time, is neither seen nor felt but, when unleashed, spells a terrible fury that few ever forget. Yes, I gaped – ... (more)
By the afternoon of our first day in Albay, we had made transportation arrangements for the following day. We wanted a closer look at Mayon Volcano, we wanted to sample the famous Bicolano cuisine and, well, we basically just wanted to experience everything there was. On the list of “places to visit” were Tiwi Hot ... (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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