The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
When I was a little girl, a time when I never heard of “bonding time” (or, even if I had, I doubt if I would have understood it anyway), I spent a lot of Saturday mornings at my father’s office. That was our special time. Just him and me. We didn’t really do anything special. ... (more)
All I really wanted was to post an entry with lots of photos about how we spent a relaxing Sunday playing with the pets, doing paper crafts, cooking, baking… But there’s been a twist in the comment thread of the entry about monkeys and how paradigms are formed and my perspective took a turn. I’m ... (more)
I like taking photos in a series — they’re like movie stills. Back in the old house, I took photos of Astro falling asleep on my foot pillow. Recently, I was able to do the same with Twix. That was the first and the last time Twix slept on our bed. We don’t even allow ... (more)
Sam is turning 16 on August 20 but we gave her the birthday gift of her choice last Sunday. His name is Twix (after the breakfast cereal chocolate bar, according to Sam) and he’s a pomspitz — a crossbreed of a pomeranian and a Japanese spitz. And, yes, we keep him as far away as ... (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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