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Home Cooking by Tita Ludette

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I remember a homemade meal Tita Ludette made for us and her family when we were her houseguest in San Francisco three years ago  

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Endive Salad 

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Garlic bread

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Salmon

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Minnestrone dela Casa

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Roast chicken from Trendy.  Trendy was a successful catering company that Tita Ludette owned when she was living in San Francisco

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Baguio Longganisa

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Our caretaker, Imelda, showed me where she buys our Baguio Longganisa in the market!

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Just go up the stairs and the stall is the first one on the right
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Tuvera longganisa
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They are making the longganisa right there
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Here it is cooked in the house – It tastes like the Baguio Country Club longganisa!  
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Group Trip Planning at Terry’s Salcedo Village

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The gang has been planning a group trip.  It’s been hard doing it by email so we decided to meet up to have dinner and plan 🙂  Jeanne chose Terry’s

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Whew!  Three floors 🙂  And this was where we finally sat
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The gang!  
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Callos

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Ceasar salad
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Piggy in a blanket, sad that we could not have it in the ceramic piggy 🙂
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Crispy bacalao
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Manchego dumplings
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Salpicado
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Lengua
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G/F Lafayette Square, LP Leviste St. Corner Sedeno st., Salcedo Village, Makati

Tel #:  02-889-3198

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Diseño

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Thank you Ditas German for promoting our very own Filipino designers!!  Ditas has been living in Singapore for five years now and presently is representing Filipino artisans.  PROUD TO BE PINOY!  For those of you living in Singapore, hope you can support the show on August 30

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Rest House in Tagaytay By Ed Ledesma and Antonio Mendoza

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I have been hearing that Randy had a beautiful house in Tagaytay and we have been planning to visit but it just never happened for a long time.  When someone tells you it’s so nice, you have very high expectations and we did!  But when we got there, everything exceeded more than our expectations!!!  WHAT A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE!!!  After our visit, we wanted to suddenly have a Tagaytay home! 🙂  But only in our dreams 🙂

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Featured in The Tropical House

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and Cover and featured in Philippine Tatler Interiors 

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Our hosts – Randy and Candy

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You will see a lot of African art and accessories which Randy bought in his trip to Africa

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Elevator which actually came in handy for Candy who is pregnant at the moment

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As I turned left – I was floored by the stuffed polar bears!!!! I thought I was in the Museum of Natural History! They came from Canada

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Go down the stairs and look right!!!  You have the whole view of the lake and the Taal volcano!!  

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Fire place

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You know who is the boss here in the house!!! Cute how those giant stuffed toys fit in so well in the living room 

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Little Sebi

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The view!!!

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Going into the kitchen

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Spa room

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Home office of Randy’s dad

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Love the stuffed animals!!

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By the garden is the guest house which has two rooms!  Randy invited us to stay but we decided to just stay for the day

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Second room

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View from the guest house

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View looking up from the deck

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The rooms upstairs – This was a room that they turned into a den

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Opposite side are the rooms

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Master bedroom

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and three other bedrooms for the two children and one room for the grand kids ( no photos ) 

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Randy and Candy’s room

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Love the lip chair 🙂

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Some night shots before we left

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Teppanyaki Dinner by Chef Randy

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We visited Randy and Candy in their home in Tagaytay!  

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What a beautiful view from their home!!!

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Going down to the deck

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Sneak peek of the beautiful house!!!

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What a blessing to be able to experience this! Thank you Randy and Candy for inviting us over

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Teppanyaki dinner!!!  Amazing!! They had their own teppanyaki table

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Ingredients all prepared

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Our gracious host and chef, Chef Randy!!!  I love it!!  Another blessing!  I love it when friends cook for us! 

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Oh gosh!!! YUM! 🙂

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Here it is being fried and made crispy 🙂

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for the Japanese fried rice 🙂

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I asked this from Randy!  I love tutong 🙂  He likes it too so we split the stash 🙂

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Secret sauces 🙂 which were really yummy!!

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Chicken teppanyaki!  SARAP!

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Shrimp

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And beef! WOW!!!  What an amazing dinner!! Thank you Chef Randy, dear friend!

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And Candy prepared dessert!  

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Pavlova with Homemade fresh fruit salad! YUM! 

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Breakfast at Antonio’s

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After going to Tagaytay for the day on Saturday, we went back again on Sunday!  Just for breakfast!  We are loving Tagaytay! 🙂 

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What an extensive menu for breakfast!!
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We only had an omelette to share as we were rushing – but wow, this is one of the best omelettes I have ever tried.  An omelette is an omelette but I really liked this one.  I also liked the crispy hash brown that went with it on the sidebreakfast-at-antonios-24.JPG
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Click below to go to their website

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