The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
I’m not a fan of antiques but old houses intrigue me primarily because of the architecture. This heritage house of Gregorio Agoncillo is typical of houses of wealthy families circa 1800s and earlier. The high ceilings and wide windows allowed maximum ventilation. I love the spaciousness and the generously-sized bedrooms.
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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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