Sweet potato salad with sweetcorn and cream cheese sauce

 

 

Does salad mean 'low fat' to you? Haha! Then I'm here to tell you, not necessarily! Here's a very easy Sunday salad lunch I prepped for my son. I love my Sunday very much. We get to sleep in and wakes at 8am (instead of 6am, cos I need to prep his lunch during the weekdays to be brought over to the nanny's), and best of all, I get to spend at least 3 to 5 hours watching Korean or Taiwanese drama (yeah!! Korean drama marathon! doesn't that sound superb!?) I have been watching the Korean drama 'The Inheritors' starred by the very famous Lee Min Ho. I find that Korean dramas are quite 'dramatic' and out of reality and my hubby would say 101 negative critiques about these drama. But I just like using zero brain cells watching them, so chillaxing!

 

To prepare this salad as a brunch or supper, or your baby's main meal, you'll need

*Half a medium size sweet potato, steam-cooked

*1tbsp sweet corn, steam-cooked

*1 hard boiled egg

 

The sauce is prepared by mashing

*2tbsp cream cheese (warmed up by microwaving for about 20sec in microwave) with

*1tbsp basil olive oil (or any olive oil)

 

Seasoning (optional)

*Pinch of salt

*Cracked black pepper

 

 

Roast chicken salad with Japanese goma dressing and tahini spread

I used to love buying Japanese goma dressing from the shop. It's not easily available in Sandakan, so I usually buy them back when I travel elsewhere.

 

When I found out that I still have lots of white sesame seeds unused, I thought of making tahini spread (white sesame butter, the healthier of peanut butter).. then I came across Nami's site which taught about how to make our own Japanese goma dressing. I tried making it, it turned out just as good as the ones I bought from outside.

 

Roasted white sesame seeds blended with sesame oil.

 

 

 

Recipe adapted from Nami's

 

Ingredients:

• 3tbsp white sesame, I used organic ones, pre-toasted in an oven for abt 5min at 175deg C 
• 2tbsp mayonnaise
• 2tbsp brown rice vinegar
• 1.5tbsp soy sauce (I used Bragg's liquid amino)
• 1tsp honey (or more for sweeter one)
• 1/2 tbsp toasted sesame oil, organic

I added more sesame oil to mine so that it's more liquid and runny.

 

Blend the toasted white sesame seeds with sesame oil and honey. Then season with the rest of the ingredients. To make it easier to blend, let the toasted sesame cool down and store in the fridge before blending.

 

 

Recipe for the tahini spread (or my healthier version of peanut butter)

• 2cups of white sesame seeds, toasted in oven at 175deg C for abt 5min
• 8-10tbsp of toasted sesame oil, organic
• 2-4tbsp of honey

When my hubby ate a bread I made using this tahini spread, he was sooo sure it was peanut butter. Hohoooo.. I'm impressed. Try it. It seriously taste like peanut butter. You may also replace the sesame oil to other oil that's not that strongly flavored, like grapeseed or sunflower seed oil.

 

Btw, do you pronounce it se-sa-me (say-sem-mee) or see-same? It's definite the first one for me.