
Tagaytay City, about 60 km. from Manila, is near enough for a day trip. But experiencing the cool weather at night requires an overnight stay. There are lots of hotels in the … [Read more...]
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Tagaytay City, about 60 km. from Manila, is near enough for a day trip. But experiencing the cool weather at night requires an overnight stay. There are lots of hotels in the … [Read more...]

When my friend Mabel called on June 28 and asked if I would like to join her and two of her girl friends, Osang and Cynthia, on a Southeast Asian cruise on November, it took … [Read more...]

I'm back. No more future posts. For now. I've taken down the notice on the sidebar that I'm out of the country and unable to respond to comments and e-mails. I am going … [Read more...]

I had version 2.5 installed before the public release came out. This blog had been running on the RC2 (Release Candidate 2) version for a couple of days and I had been playing … [Read more...]

For years, I had been dreaming of going to Boracay. But we kept putting it off. First, the kids were too young and the transfers from plane to land vehicle to boat to land … [Read more...]

You can prepare this drink in two ways -- as a cocktail drink or as a non-alcoholic iced beverage. If course, the non-alcoholic version won’t be a anything similar to a mojito and you can … »»

Need to get dinner on the table in 15 minutes? No problem. Season some ground meat, form into patties, throw into the skillet and cook until nicely browned. Cook sliced mushrooms in the … »»

One of the most widely known Chinese dishes outside of Asia is General Tso’s chicken -- floured bite-size chicken pieces fried until crisp then tossed in sweet-salty sauce. This is the … »»

It's tempting to simply ask that you Google "Connie Veneracion" or "Sassy Lawyer" or "Pinoy Cook" and have this page done with. But that might give you the wrong idea about me. A third of what's been written about me is true, a third is half-true and the rest consists of drug-induced hallucinations. I suppose I'd better let me, rather than them, tell you about me. I'm … »

*This article was last updated on October 2, 2011. 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 … »






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