I bet regular readers would have never guessed I would try cooking and eating quinoa. I mean quinoa is a health food that is popular amongst hipsters
I used Coles homebrand quinoa which just required me to wash and cook for 10 minutes in the microwave oven. It was pretty easy but that said, it didn’t taste as good as quinoa I’ve eaten elsewhere.
I also used a packet Hollandaise sauce for this. I know I should make my own but previous attempts have been failures. Coles was selling this Gravox® brand packet Hollandaise for $2 a packet and for 40 seconds in the microwave oven it is a lot easier to prepare than making my own. Now I’m sure the Gravox® brand Hollandaise contains chemicals to preserve and protect me against pathogens as well as chemicals to maintain consistency and appearance. It probably isn’t as healthy as home made Hollandaise sauce made from scratch.
How do you feel about supermarket prepared versus homemade? I like the convenience factor.
Tonight I enjoyed a fillet portion of salmon along with some kale coleslaw and ate it like a burger. I’m hoping to enjoy salmon at least once a week. I don’t care if it’s full of omega 3 fatty acids and if it’s healthy for me, I love the flavour of salmon. I also love the flavour of mango and avocado and coleslaw is a perfect carrier for these delicious flavours.
Salmon and kale coleslaw on a hamburger bun
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: Gary Lum
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Serves: 1
A delicious dinner for one
Ingredients
Portion of Atlantic salmon
Hamburger bun
Persian feta
Kale coleslaw from Coles
Avocado
Mango
Praise coleslaw dressing
Pepper
Instructions
Bake the salmon at 200 °C for 15 minutes
Toast the hamburger bun or fry in a frying pan with grapeseed oil
Add some coleslaw dressing to the kale coleslaw
Add diced mango and avocado to the kale coleslaw
Spread some Persian feta to the toasted hamburger bun
Place the fillet of salmon on one half of the hamburger bun
Place some of the salad on the other half of the hamburger bun
Shoot a photograph
Put the hamburger together
Shoot a photograph
Eat the burger and the remaining salad
Wash the dishes
Write the recipe
Blog (verb)
Hope that people read the post and comment
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If you have any comments or questions please send me a comment in the space below.
Who doesn’t like fried potatoes? I suppose some people don’t like hash browns. I know a lot of people think they’re not healthy and I guess they’re probably correct. Out of the people who don’t eat them though I reckon a lot of them like the taste of a hash brown I mean it’s got potato, butter, oil and salt!
Last night I made some hamburger patties and had some left over. So I made a hamburger and hash brown meal for dinner tonight.
How to make a hash brown
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: Gary Lum
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
One potato
Salt
Grapeseed oil
Butter
Instructions
Grate the spud coarsely
Put into a sieve and press out all the liquid
Leave in the sieve for 30 minutes to keep draining
Add some salt
Heat up a frying pan and add some oil and butter
Press the potato together and lay on the frying pan
Cook for about 5 minutes each side
Drain on absorbent paper
Put together with the hamburger you’ve already cooked
Add some avocado for colour and flavour
Shoot a photograph
Eat the meal
Wash the dishes
Write the recipe
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For dessert I ate a white chocolate freckle and some Weiss lemon sorbet.
I was thinking of a bacon, lettuce, avocado and tomato sandwich for dinner but then I made hamburger
Delicious spicy hamburger recipe
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: Gary Lum
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
Arborio rice
Regular beef mince
Worcestershire sauce
Grapeseed oil
Chilli flakes
Black pepper corns
Mixed dried herbs
Salt
Egg
Instructions
Put everything together in a bowl and mixed it together with your hands
If you don’t use your hands it’s not fun
It feels great squelching the oily mince meat between my fingers
Make flat patties
Cook in a bench top oven at 200 °C for 25 minutes
Prepare a plate with cos lettuce, sliced radish, sliced tomato with pepper
Plate up the hamburger patties
Shoot a photograph
Eat the meal
Wash the dishes
Write the recipe
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This was pretty easy to make and was easy to clean up afterwards. You can also make a hamburger in a bread roll and add condiments like mustard, barbecue sauce or even tomato sauce.
If you have any comments or questions please send me a comment in the space below.
It’s day three of my holiday. I put on my jeans and felt the snugness that comes with eating too many vanilla slices (amongst other things).
I’m now on belt home 3, I had hoped not to revisit belt hole 3. Belt hole 3 signifies failure, a lack of discipline, a life of fun and games and not enough physical effort.
So what to do? Well I’m on holiday and I’m still going to enjoy myself, after all my Victorian friends have told me how good the food is here so it would be wrong not to enjoy myself. Discipline and hard work can wait for when I get home.
The deeper question is why have I let myself go after losing a few kilograms at the beginning of the year and keeping to belt hole 0 for so long.
The reasons are manifold and include a general lack of motivation to maintain discipline and a greater lack of motivation to exercise. In previous years I’ve got out and walked for about 40 minutes at least once a day even in the dead of a Canberra winter.
I’ve still been waking up early but this year I’ve just not felt motivated. I need to get back to getting out and walking. I also need to get better with portion control.
So what happened on day 3 of my holiday? I spent most of the day sitting on my well proportioned arse at the Geelong Arena watching women’s artistic gymnastics. For a portion of the day I enjoyed watching Miss13 compete for Delta Brisbane in the level 7 competition. Most years when I can get to this event it’s been Miss17 who I’ve watched but Miss17 is in grade 12 and in her last week of high school. Miss17 is as always carrying a reasonable injury at the moment too so she sensibly elected not to compete. For Miss13 though this is her first national club championships and it’s great to see her in competition.
For readers not familiar with gymnastics the event is broken up into two days of competition for each level. The first day it’s like heats of a race. On the second day the best clubs compete.
Watching gymnastics can be pretty boring, there’s a lot of warming up and for each apparatus a competitor may only spend a minute or so doing their thing. The vault is over in the few seconds but they get two goes. I find the beam the most nerve wracking to watch. Balance is such a fine thing. After losing my hearing in my left ear I find balance even more precious and watching these young competitors wobble and regain balance, occasionally performing flawlessly occasionally fighting gravity and losing, I am in awe of how the human body can with skill and training do amazing things. All hail the vestibular apparatus.
The Geelong Arena is surprisingly small. Having watched the same competition at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra and having attended other competitions I’m surprised for a national championship such a small arena has been chosen.
For the spectators this is fantastic. You are very close to the floor and you get a much better appreciation of the competition. I’d happily come here again.
So what did I eat today. For breakfast I went for a bit of a walk and found a café close to the hotel. The Rio Café is a small friendly looking place that does a basic breakfast which is served all day as well as sandwiches and fairly good coffee. I asked for poached eggs and bacon and also enjoyed a couple of flat white coffees.
The eggs were poached nicely. The yolks we’re runny and there was no taste of vinegar in the egg white. The two bacon rashers were cooked well, not over cooked which is a cooking crime. The toast was white bread with butter. I elected not to eat the toast.
For lunch there is a tuck shop at the arena and they served potato gems with tomato sauce. It was very diffuse to go past them.
As I wrote above, I find watching the balance beam the most terrifying. Especially when there is a handstand involved or spinning. I watched some amazing ‘saves’ today, bodies on the edge, Gravity winning but human determination and strength winning. The emotions are high and low for the competitors and spectators alike. We all watched an amazing floor routine and at the end the gymnast fell. She cried, we cried.
Miss13 had a good first day. This is her leaping on the balance beam. She nailed the landing 🙂
After the afternoon session I went to get something for dinner. I found a greasy spoon called Scooby Sue and got a burger. It had lots of coleslaw and sour cream. It did the trick and hit the right spot!
I went back to watch the Level 10 competition and then returned to the hotel to write this post.
So do you enjoy watching sport? I think to get back to belt hole 0 I need to do more than just watch sport 😀
Here are some photographs of Miss13 going through her paces today.
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