The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
One of the screws on the garden door. Should be a clear message to my husband that it’s time to assess the condition of the door. 
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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 versions of houseonahill and pinoycook weren't … (click here to read all »)
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Sam likes buying those frozen seafood balls in the grocery -- fish balls, … (more...)
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ang galing ng first pic, ung kinakalawang na chain “tanikalang may kalawang”? hehe. ! i’m now a fan of your daughter’s macro photography! hehehe. but seriously, you know, she must have something in mind when she photographed this. have you asked her why? strange images elicit strange thoughts…
She always says I shouldn’t just take photos of “nice” things because ugly things are real too. That’s her line when I smirk at photos of the mess in her bedroom. I suppose it reflects how she views life–good with the bad.
Hey con…as usual, a visit to your website was a visual and culinary feast. I love your different takes on dishes…tuyo with olive oil and pesto…yum! Take care and regards to Speedy – o, Sam and the smallest one. : – )
now we have a true ‘seeing’ photographer, hahaha! fresh vision applied to rust or the jaded view of things will get you everytime.
sam, so you cook now? regards to rex too.
ben, actually, her reasoning was an eye opener for me hehehehe