Roasted Sesame Dressing

Since yesterday until tomorrow, my younger daughter is my lunch-at-home mate. She's having her periodical exams and hence on a half day scheds. This girl is more of her dad's diet, those junk fastfoods I hate. Burgers and hotdogs are favorites. So to meet her halfway, I eat adobo or tocino and rice with her. We both love Ligo sardines though.

Wednesday and Friday are my older daughter off from classes and so for this 3rd sem (her last of her first year), she's my lunch buddy. This ate eats the same as me. She likes everything I like.



When she's around, I don't have to think otherwise what to prepare. I just add volume to what I usually have everyday when I'm alone. Salad is a regular. I just varied it according to what's available inside the fridge. Last Friday, we had crab-mango salad.



A day ago, we went up to Tagaytay, I bought lots of freshly pick lettuce and have them stored in the fridge. The romaine was still crisp and fresh, loveth! Romaine is my favorite lettuce variant. It has no hint of bitterness at all. The mangoes were from Tagaytay too. They were super sweet. The sweetest crabs were ofcourse from my hometown in Quezon prov.
I dressed this salad with sesame dressing which is really-really my favorite. I bought that huge bottle of roasted sesame dressing less than a month ago. Look, how I consume it so fast. It's already about just 1/4 of the bottle. I'm addicted to it. It's quite expensive for a salad dressing but I thought it's worthy cos I tend to eat greens everyday if I have this dressing. My brother is suggesting for us to try making our own sesame dressing, and would based it from this brand which is my favorite. Yeah, I guess I'll try that. I'll be saving a lot from doing my own. If I got it right, I'll share with you the recipe. Promise ;D

ClawDaddy

Dinner last night was at Bonifacio High Street.

At ClawDaddy. Only because our vouchers were about to expire in  2 days. haha.

So off to fetch the kids from schools and dragged them, delaying their homeworks' scheds. Each of them goes to a different school now. Far from each other too.

We got there, the place was not packed yet so we got a table inside.

But had requested to transfer to an al fresco table cos it was too cold for feverish husband and asthmatic cuzin'. haha.

Now a days, for me green salad is a non-negotiable fix.



Claw Daddy's salad. In ranch dressing, lettuce,ham, eggs, cherry tomatoes, olives and walnut brittle with two buttered bread. Good. The size was quite deceiving, but the plate actually served us all.






Buffalo wings. Too strong for my kids whose favorite is Don Henrico's buffalo wings.

Oyster Rockefeller. I ate most of them.

Carbonara. Too salty for my preference. Look. . .

. .  .as sad as my younger daughter. It was served a tad late after all the other dishes were served and daughter was too hungry to wait that long.



Szechuan Crab. Ofcourse you couldn't leave Clawdaddy without a taste of the claws crabs. It was great thu'.



It was so good for crab addict cuzin', she shelled up to every lil' claw there was. Look at the above photo, on her hidden lap was the trash bucket she put the shell/skin. Her daughter was already sleepy. hahaha.

Noodle soup. Hubby hardly touched any of the plates. As I mentioned he was feverish and had a weird appetite that night. He ordered himself  a simple noodle soup instead.



Well, we stayed for a while. We were too full to get up quickly. Cuzin' at this point was still busy beside me with the claws. hahaha.
Our bill was short of few cents to P3k. Not bad. But for a cheap mom like me, it would be a heartbreaking wallet bullet to pay ( already to me ;)) that much, for a random dinner like this.
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Fatless Shabu-Shabu

Tagaytay was smoking cold the other day when we went up. It was also raining non-stop.



So the plan to bring my tourist? cuz' Sylvia to a garden moonlight dinner was washed away by the rainfall. Instead, we made a stop to a newly opened shabu-shabu (hotpot) resto by the road - Fatless Shabu-Shabu. The word fatless pulled us straight right into the entrance of the resto.



The only stuff that made us think twice was the emptiness of the resto. That was just for a second. We were all chilling and majority wanted some piping hot soup. We are all gearing towards a healthy new year so the famous bulalo of the area was temporarily dismissed.

We ordered a set menu for 4-6 persons which included rice and drinks already.

The seafood/meat plate was good. The fresh squid came late thu'. It was served when all of the stuff were already in the pot. But turned out okey anyway.

I was liking the idea that we were shabu-ing at chilled Tagaytay and had a good feeling that vegetables were all fresh.

Condiments. I missed the flavor-fullness of authentic chinese /vietnamese sate sauce. In here, sate paste was quite bland and didn't fully glorify the tasty soup we were used to, from other shabu-shabu resto we frequent in Manila.

My first bowl. I didn't touched the rice. I don't eat rice with shabu-shabu. for me it's already a complete meal. With corn in it, I'm good to go.



Overall, I like the place. It's new ( only opened a month ago), clean and fresh. I also like that it's not big and therefore not busy. I hate crowded place.