The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Two days ago, I was relaxing in bed and flipping through Flipboard when I came across a photo that made me drool. I immediately tweeted that what was in the photo would be “tomorrow’s lunch” and that was exactly what happened. Yesterday’s lunch was these meatball sliders. The meatballs, made with a combination of ground ... (more)
It isn’t exactly the time to talk about leisure and vacations but if all I think and write about are Ondoy and Pepeng, I think I’ll go nuts. Good thing that I was asked to write a travel piece for Manila Standard Today for last Thursday’s edition. It’s the seventh or eight travel feature I’ve ... (more)
Some people clean their houses from top to bottom before the New Year; I clean out my hard drive. I’ve been deleting duplicate photos and unwanted files all day when I came upon the tons of photos from last summer’s trip to Boracay, Aklan and Capiz, including a visit to the Panay church. And there ... (more)
Inside Sampaguita Garden’s Resort in Aklan is Jojo’s Christmas Cottage. If the structure looks interesting by day with its unique colors and accents, it is doubly pretty at night when the directional lights are on. Stuff straight out of the pages of a storybook. But what’s even more interesting is what’s inside. Hundreds, if ... (more)
I’m not a morning person. You can’t make me get out of bed before 9.00 a.m. unless it’s a schoolday and I have to cook the kids’ packed lunches. Or, if we’re going somewhere special. Or, if Speedy makes it a condition for buying me something nice like new camera lenses. No, really. Seriously. I’m ... (more)
Cory Aquino has been on the news a lot lately after having been diagnosed with colon cancer. Days before the announcement was made, I was photographing a painting that Cory did in 2003 which hangs on the wall of Sam Butcher’s mansion in Aklan.
Sam Butcher is the creator of Precious Moments and his mansion is located inside the Sampaguita Gardens Resort in New Washington…
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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