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Pork belly. Simple and good.

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I had another big day at work. I wanted something I could cook while continuing to work from home. I still have a teleconference tonight at midnight so I didn’t want to muck around a lot.

I chose a small piece of belly pork, a small sweet potato and an avocado. I turned the sweet potato into a mash with butter and Gorgonzola cheese. I scored the pork with a sharp knife and rubbed in salt, a little sugar and some pepper.

Pork belly from Coles

Pork belly from Coles

Gorgonzola and sweet potato used to make a mash.

Gorgonzola and sweet potato

This was not a low calorie meal. I do like butter.

Gorgonzola and butter

Out of the oven the pork rind was crispy.

Pork belly

Plated up with the pork on the sweet potato mash and the two halves of an avocado. I like pepper, chili flakes and Tabasco sauce.

Pork belly, sweet potato and avocado

Pork belly, sweet potato and avocado

The mash was thick and smooth and tasting like cheese. The flesh of the pork was tender and juicy and full of nice fatty flavour.

 

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I love steak

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I often feel like eating steak. For the last few months my staple protein has been skinless chicken thigh. That said I have been allowing myself red meat every now and then.

A few weeks ago I had an Angus rib eye fillet at Kingsleys steak and crab house. The steak was amazingly tender. That’s an onion ring on top :-)

Angus rib eye fillet with creamy potato mash and bearnaise sauce

Last weekend I had a Scotch rib fillet with prawns and calamari at the Canberra Southern Cross Club at Jamison. It was pretty awesome.

Scotch rib fillet with prawns, calamari and mashed potato (rustic style) with a bearnaise sauce

Tonight I wanted to cook myself some steak. This is a Scotch rib fillet from Coles. It’s sitting on a sweet potato stack. It’s topped with cheese and avocado and a side of roast pumpkin.

Steak, sweet potato, pumpkin, avocado and cheese

This was a very satisfying meal. The creaminess of the avocado and the juiciness of the steak went so well together.

 

Salmon and avocado

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I was lazy tonight. I pan friend some Atlantic salmon and added some diced tomato with avocado, coriander, dill and parsley.

Atlantic salmon and avocado

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Chicken dinner

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The last few nights I’ve splurged on dinners with lots of things I’ve been trying to avoid to lose some weight. Tonight I returned to my weight loss meal. Chicken thigh meat and a couple of vegetables.

Chicken dinner

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Fried chicken

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After trying chicken fried steak on Sunday evening I thought I should try frying some chicken. I tweeted this desire today and buzz_71 asked me to blog it tonight. As if I wouldn’t 😃!!!

I soaked a chicken thigh fillet in butter milk for 20 minutes. This was then egg washed and then floured. The flour also had salt, pepper, mustard, curry powder, and paprika added. I did this twice and then placed the coated chicken into the refrigerator for a few minutes while I heated some vegetable oil in my wok.

I cooked the chicken for about five minutes per side. In addition I had a couple of sweet potato discs deep fried. Along with the chicken and sweet potato I enjoyed some avocado and cabbage.

Fried chicken dinner with cabbage, sweet potato and avocado

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Again thanks to Karen for this idea.

On an interesting note, whenever I eat paprika I have very vivid dreams. If I go to sleep in a bad mood I have night mares, if I go to sleep happy I have happy dreams or at least dreams reflecting what I’ve been doing that evening but in positive tones. On Sunday night I had watched The Big Bang Theory and that night dreamt I was debating Sheldon Cooper about my favourite subject, viz., pus associated with soft tissue infections.

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Smoked salmon for dinner

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Tonight I prepared a simple smoked salmon meal. I processed some avocado, tomato, parsley, dill, chilli flakes, Tabasco sauce and olive oil. I also added some capers and black cracked pepper. It was quick and easy so I can get through more paperwork tonight that I’ve brought home.

Smoked salmon, avocado, tomato, parsley, dill, chilli flakes, Tobasco sauce, pepper and capers

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Dinner at the museum

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Tonight I visited Museo Nacional De Antropología in Mexico City and went through the Aztec and Maya rooms. Fascinating exhibits and very interesting history.

Dinner was tortilla soup, stuffed chicken and banana cream pie.

Tortilla soup at Museo Nacional De Antropología

 

Tortilla soup at Museo Nacional De Antropología

Stuffed chicken at Museo Nacional De Antropología

Banana cream pie at Museo Nacional De Antropología

 

Today’s food diary

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Today I managed to stay near my calorie ceiling.

Breakfast was a single egg.

Fried egg on toast

Then this morning at work a new work mate brought in macaroons her son made. They were delicious.

Chocolate macaroons

For lunch I had a really nice chicken breast, lettuce, aioli and avocado toasted sandwich.

Tonight I had a small rack of lamb (180 g) and some stir fried vegetables (200 g).

Rack of lamb

I hope to sleep well tonight.