The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
After discovering that the house helpers had been replacing some of my herbs with ornamental plants that I don’t know where they get from, and after telling them never to do that ever again (okay, I was fuming mad), I decided to inspect the garden from end to end. I might as well. I was ... (more)
I’ve seen a lot of plants with thorny stems but this is the first thorny leaf I’ve seen and photographed. The fruit of the plant itself is strange looking — like the head of an animal complete with ears. There’s an older photo of this yellow fruit in the archive taken during a previous stay at Balay Indang. It caught our attention then but, during our most recent visit, it was the leaves that appeared more interesting. It’s as though they’re saying “Hands off!”
One of the posts of the gate that leads to the garden was designed with a planter on top. It’s empty right now. A similar planter is on the post of the second floor veranda. Of course, I don’t want them to stay empty. The thing is, these planters have no drainage. So, I can ... (more)
Back in the old house, a malunggay tree growing in an adjacent property was visible from our backyard. And I would covet that three, wishing it was growing in MY backyard instead. See, I love malunggay leaves. I love adding them to fish soup with lots of ginger and garlic. A few days ago, my ... (more)
The house came with a beautifully landscaped garden. There are plants on the entryway and on both sides of the front door, in the lanai and in the main garden. We’re keeping most of the plants that came with the house but we’ll have to move some to accommodate the herbs that we pulled out ... (more)
The house we bought has a garden beside it. The garden did not come with the house, however. It is a vacant lot and we were given the first option to purchase it. We did. I grew up in a house with a large garden with fruit and evergreen trees and there’s nothing like stepping ... (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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