The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
In a predominantly Catholic country, it takes guts to go around flower shops and give away free condoms on Valentine’s Day – even if it’s part of a campaign of the Department of Health. But Secretary Esperanza Cabral did it anyway and she’s now under fire from the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) ... (more)
When Alex announced a couple of days ago that her class was going on a three-day team building session, my first thought was oh, my! Speedy and I would have the house to ourselves. And my mind raced although I am not sure if I did it in the context of daydreaming or getting attacked ... (more)
GREENSBURG, Pa. – March 10, 2008 — A Westmoreland County woman has been sentenced to two to four years in prison for letting her 12-year-old daughter have sex at home with a 16-year-old boy. [AP report] In the comment thread, readers aren’t very kind to the mother. Probably unrelated trivia: Melanie Griffith was 14 when ... (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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