The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
A reader asks for advice about a male office supervisor who makes her uncomfortable with his excessive praises over her physical appearance. She says that when he says things like “That blouse shows off your curves and cleavage magnificently” especially in the presence of co-workers, she feels that he is undressing her mentally. Worse, she ... (more)
Most people who read my blogs know that I work from home. If you’re not among them, well, I do. Work from home. Or work at home. Whichever the more grammatically correct phrase is. Many have commented at my “enviable” situation and I do have to admit that working from home has its perks. One, ... (more)
For those asking (complaining?) about the lack of new posts in this blog, I didn’t die. And I’m not sick either. I’m working real hard, believe me, although you won’t see the results until the 19th and thereafter. These days, there are only three parts of the house that I spend a lot of time ... (more)
Believe me, if there were a more apt title, I wouldn’t have used a line from a song. He (maybe, she) uses the cats’ water bowl for a swimming dipping pool most nights. It’s going to be a very busy two weeks ahead as the schoolyear winds up. There are also domain and server issues ... (more)
The whole point in retiring early was to spend more time with the kids while they were growing up. It wasn’t a tough choice to make. I was never the ambitious young lawyer that most of my peers were. That retirement proved better than I ever imagined was a bonus. I had the opportunity to ... (more)
Many people have asked me how I manage to write so much in one day. I have several blogs and I write for the print media too. You know, most times, the words just flow and my fingers just have to keep up with the pace at which my mind races. It might sound weird ... (more)
First of all, thank you for the e-mails alerting me to the so-called demolition campaign against me as well as to attempts to polarize the PMN community. No, I am not going to do anything about it. I won’t stoop to their level. As for the PMN members, they are adults, they can make their ... (more)
I wasn’t able to cook dinner again. I told the helper to reheat half a gallon of the paksiw na lechon from the leftovers on Speedy’s birthday and that’s what we’ll have. I fell asleep in the middle of the afternoon. Dead tired. Because I have been out for two days this week to attend ... (more)
During the first weeks of summer, I bought a new blender. Haven’t had one since Sam was a baby. I’ve been content with my Thunderstick which chopped veggies well enough. But my kids are crazy about smoothies and fruit shakes and a blender would not only keep them busy over the vacation, I would benefit ... (more)
I’m back home from class. Second meeting with the seniors for their Internet and Law elective; first meeting with the IT Guild, a hodgepodge of high schoolers from first to third year. The IT Guild is one of the more than a dozen clubs in school, a required extracurricular once-a-week activity. But it’s not just ... (more)
I never thought there would be a “career and profession” category in any of my blogs. I left behind a career — by choice — when I became a mother. Then, I gave up a promising second wind eight years later — again, by choice — because I wanted a career that would not keep ... (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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