The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
In the previous post, the recipe for sticky rice congee with chicken, lemongrass and quail eggs, reader Candice commented: i just read the recipe for lugaw with premature eggs and saw the picture of the innards… i’ve never even seen those parts of a chicken in my whole life! forgive my ignorance but did all ... (more)
Last April, Speedy and I were at the girls’ school to watch Kimberly & Johnson, a play about relationships. We were there to cheer when Alex she took her bow during the curtain call. No, she wasn’t one of the actors. She was assistant stage manager. But moral support and our physical presence weren’t the ... (more)
Yesterday was Speedy’s birthday. Last night was also the last performance of a shadow play (another production of Spot, CSB‘s theater group) for which Alex was one of the two people who designed the lighting. Of course, we went. We always go to her plays. The plan was to see the play then have a ... (more)
Until today, it was the Department of Education (DepEd) that issued suspension of classes in the wake of a storm or typhoon. Not anymore. “Beginning today and in succeeding typhoons, the DepEd will not anymore officially suspend classes,” Luistro told a National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council command conference Monday morning. “As soon as typhoon ... (more)
In the 1980s, it was a common sight especially on the last Sunday of the bar exams — crowds of cheerers and supporters, mostly students from law schools, gathered in front of the exam venue to cheer the examinees as they came out. A bar exam tradition. When Speedy drove Alex back to the condo ... (more)
If you haven’t heard yet, a Supreme Court justice is in hot waters for publishing a decision where portions were lifted verbatim from three different sources. From the column of former Supreme Court Justice Artemio Panganiban. Short backgrounder. On April 28, 2010, the Supreme Court en banc, in “Vinuya vs Romulo,” dismissed the petition of ... (more)
When what’s-his-name congressman came up with the suggestion a couple of weeks ago to extend education by two years, I posted an update on Twitter that what we need is better quality education and not an additional two years. I thought a short comment like that was all that the suggestion deserved — I so ... (more)
There were two things I was supposed to write about today — how I feel about Vice President Binay’s “request” for an official residence and the electoral protest filed by Senator MAR Roxas. Those were my thoughts before I went to bed before nine o’clock last night, feeling a bit busted after working all day. ... (more)
If you’ve ever rented an apartment, you’d be aware that it is SOP to give two months deposit and one month advance payment. In some cases, it’s more than that. My daughters go to a college that is too far for daily commute. So, they stay in a rented condo. In Sam’s case, this is ... (more)
Alex doesn’t have classes on Fridays. Although the agreement is that Speedy will pick her and Sam up on Fridays (save on fuel, right?), since this is just the first week of classes, we humored her and Speedy picked her up yesterday afternoon. I cooked her favorite for dinner, sinigang na baboy, we watched The ... (more)
Posting has been light for the past week because my family reached another milestone — our youngest, Alex, is now in college. A.B. Theater. It’s been hectic as hell, complicated by a virus that brought us down with colds accompanied by fever. We managed though. We found a bigger condo that’s within a five-minute walking ... (more)
I think I like the kind of college education that Sam is getting. In her History class, part of the final exam is a paper on cuisine. I don’t know exactly how it goes but the paper entails experiencing cuisine, taking photos (Sam is a Photography major, after all) and writing about the experience with ... (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.
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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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