The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Fact: there is no vaccine against dengue. Fact: in worst cases, dengue can lead to death. That’s why we have all kinds of anti-mosquito repellents at home. We take the dengue scare very seriously. About three weeks ago, news broke out about the successful attempt toward bringing down the population of dengue-carrying mosquitoes. The process, ... (more)
(Yesterday’s column) When I read a couple of weeks ago that the incidence of dengue in Caloocan City had risen by 500 percent, I was shocked. That was were I grew up and, even back then, the mosquito situation was already bad. The story goes that when I was a toddler, my father required the ... (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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