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Food for footy finals

Posted 2015-09-12 by Gary

Last night I went out with some friends from the hospital. We went to Chong Co Thai in Kingston. I enjoyed a lamb shank massaman curry and some coconut rice. I woke up feeling a little nauseated, tired and experiencing blurred vision. Not a good way to begin a weekend of footy finals.

Tonight my two favourite teams in the National Rugby League are playing in the first round of the footy finals series. The Brisbane Broncos are playing the North Queensland Cowboys. I’m hoping the Broncos defeat the Cowboys. Both teams get another chance and ultimately I’d love if they both met again in the grand final. Can you imagine a Broncos Cowboys grand final at Lang Park? Of course the NRL wouldn’t allow it. It’s as likely as letting the football star rather than the crappy entertainment Channel Nine insists on torturing us with. Why do we need Jimmy Barnes and Cold Chisel screaming at us? I’d prefer a school choir to sing the national anthem and then kick off of the game. Worse still Channel Nine will insist on having Phil Gould in the commentary box. The focus should be the footy not the entertainment all in the name of television ratings. So much time is wasted when all the fans and viewers want is to watch the footy.

So let’s get back to some food and photography.

Saturday breakfast. Vegemite and marmalade on an English muffin.

Beautiful spring day while walking around Lake Ginninderra. My hay fever will ramp up soon with so many flowers being out.

Something I found while walking around Lake Ginninderra

Lake Ginninderra playground. It looks phallic but it’s part of a dug out canoe.

Flower blossoms on Lake Ginninderra. I love my 55 mm f1.8 lens for my Sony.

Saturday morning tea. Chocolate popcorn cupcake from Heather's House of Cake on Lake Ginninderra. — Saturday morning tea. Chocolate popcorn cupcake from Heather’s House of Cake on Lake Ginninderra. This was delectable.

Saturday lunch. Beef burger with tomato and lettuce. A friend on Facebook thought the mustard looked like a McDonald’s sign.

Saturday footy finals food for dinner. Beef burger with potato gems, wasabi aioli, barbecue sauce and tomato sauce. The wasabi aioli was inspired by a YouTube cook from the Gold Coast I follow. His name is Greg and his YouTube channel is called Greg’s Kitchen. He’s quite quirky.

I’m thrilled that Jolene Blalock favourited and retweeted a tweet of mine. Jolene played T’Pol on Star Trek Enterprise. T’Pol was one of my favourite characters on Enterprise. She really developed as a character throughout the four short seasons. I wish there had been another season of Enterprise.

As I left the hospital yesterday I saw this sign on a window. I shared it on Instagram and Facebook and pondered whether this could be a new ice cream store. I’m expecting it will be used to store semen, embryos and for tissue banking.

I never thought of kangaroo being a Thai protein.

Chong Co Thai Restaurant menu Kingston, Canberra

TGIF dinner. Lamb shank massaman curry from Chong Co Thai Restaurant. It was really good. I hope it’s not responsible for why I’m feeling nauseated.

So it was a great game tonight. The best team won. The Broncos defeated the Cowboys.

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Asparagus soup and my pee #aussiespears are awesome

Posted 2015-09-05 by Gary

I looked back at my Instagram feed since receiving my Australian Asparagus Council asparagus package and noticed I haven’t done anything more than roast or pan-fry my #aussiespears Tonight I made soup. I saw an image on Instagram as I was searching the #aussiespears feed and came across https://instagram.com/p/7M-YMKDvev/ from my friend Lisa.

It also made me think that if I’m going to be cooking two bundles of asparagus I’m going to have wickedly smelling urine tonight.

I looked up a few websites to find an explanation and despite knowing about the phenomenon for centuries, there are no clear cut answers. Some people produce the sulphuric breakdown products and some people can smell them. Some people don’t produce malodorous urine and some people cannot smell the breakdown products.

While some people complain the smell is awful, I’ve never found it objectionable. That’s not to say I find it pleasant. To me it’s like when I smell petroleum products. It’s not a pleasant smell but it’s a compelling smell. The same with glue.

The good thing is sniffing asparagus urine is not dangerous like petrol and glue sniffing. Even better with all the silverbeet I’ve eaten my stools will be tarry black tomorrow.

You can also see #aussiespears on Facebook!

I don’t know what recipe Lisa used so I made one up.

Asparagus soup and my pee #aussiespears are awesome

Recipe Type: Dinner

Cuisine: Australian

Author: [url href=”https://about.me/garydlum” target=”_blank”]Gary Lum[/url]

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 45 mins

Total time: 55 mins

Serves: 1

Ingredients

Olive oil
Asparagus 2 bundles
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Silverbeet 1 bunch
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Balsamic vinegar
French onion soup sachet
Water
Greek yoghurt

Instructions

Cut the asparagus spears into 2 cm segments and sautée in some olive oil in a large saucepan
Shred the leaves and slice the stems of a large bunch of silverbeet and cook off with the asparagus
Add a dash of balsamic vinegar
Cook until everything has softened
Add 1 litre of water
Add one sachet of French onion soup
Bring to the boil and simmer for 30 minutes
Serve in a large bowl
Add a dollop of Greek yoghurt
Garnish with the tips of some asparagus
Shoot a photograph
Drink the soup
Wash the dishes
Write the recipe
Enjoy the rich thiol rich aroma of sulphur every time I empty my bladder
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Saturday dinner. Asparagus and silverbeet soup.

Now it’s time for me to share how I spent my Saturday.

Saturday breakfast. Fried egg, smoked salmon and asparagus.

Injectable confetti vanilla cupcake from Heather's House of Cake. — Injectable confetti vanilla cupcake from Heather’s House of Cake. [This was really nice].

Saturday lunch. Salmon and vegetable rissole on a poppyseed bagel.

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What I ate today

Posted 2015-08-02 by Gary

I hope everyone has had a good weekend. Mine was pretty good when it comes to food. Otherwise the weather in Canberra has been pretty ordinary. It’s been cold, wet and windy.

So this morning I made low fat scrambled eggs and enjoyed some Buderim Ginger Factory ginger, lemon and lime marmalade. I went on a walk around Lake Ginninderra and stopped at Heather’s House of Cake for a caramel chocolate caramel (yes two caramels) cupcake. For lunch I had some leftover organic red rice pork congee on rye bread. While I was watching Netflix I enjoyed a snack of almonds, cashews, Queensland nuts and golden roughs. For dinner I some baked salmon with quinoa rice which was bound with some Greek yoghurt and English marmalade.

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