I was recently told about baked ling in a bag from a Facebook group (Cooking meals for one) member who lives in Canberra. She mentioned that Woolworths sells fish with flavoured butters and baking bags as a package deal from the “fresh” fish counter. Apparently this has been going on for years. I’ve never seen it available in Coles.
Dedicated to Coles because I cheated on Coles by buying the ling in a bag from Woolworths
Have you ever heard of kale and silverbeet layer cake? Followers on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram will have seen a lot of leafy green vegetables being eaten by Yummy Lummy lately. My GP has told me to go low carb (low carbohydrate) and focus on leafy green vegetables.
Continue readingDedicated to iron metabolism
Mainly because in humans and bacteria, iron metabolism confuses a lot of people
Butter I hear you scream. Well I went with dip!
For lunch today I made a sandwich with a piece of chicken schnitzel. Normally I’d add butter to the bread but today instead of butter I went with dip. So butter or dip? I went with dip.
I support I could have gone with both but really that is not necessary. As my girth increases, I really need to stop doubling up on things.
I bought a fresh bread roll from Coles as well as one of those heart shaped pieces of chicken schnitzel (I described this a few posts ago). I also had a premade spring onion dip as well as some grated Coon cheese. The leafy green vegetable you can see in the photographs is kale. Yeah I know, it’s trendy and hipster. If you know me well, you know I’m neither trendy nor hipster. I like the taste of kale. See what I don’t like about kale by watching the video.
It was a pretty good sandwich. Please try making one yourself and letting me know what you think.
I’ve started a podcast. It’s called Medical Fun Facts. You can check it out at my other medicine related blog.
If you like watching YouTube food videos, please check out my YouTube channel. The videos are all fairly brief and while there isn’t a lot of talk about butter, I do have some yummy food on the channel. I also try to inject a little humour. Let me know what you think and how I can improve it.
My youngest daughter turned fifteen last week and I have spent this weekend in Brisbane celebrating with her.
First things first breakfast. Getting close and personal with a Queensland nut (Macadamia) tart served with too much cream from a can. The base was a little too thick and dry making the eating experience difficult.
I spent the morning with Ms20 shopping for birthday invitation stationery for her 21st birthday party.
Around lunch time I fought the Westfield Chermside traffic to pick up Ms18 and Miss15 from Gymnastics training while Ms20 drove my parents into Fortitude Valley so we could meet at Oriental Yum Cha.
When we arrived we were taken to a large table up the back. Mum was worried it may be too far out of the main area for trolleys to visit. At first things were a little slow but it picked up and we really didn’t have to worry.
It would have been nice to be on the upper deck but that was pretty empty.
So on weekdays you get the all you can eat option. We visited on a Saturday so we paid standard rates. We also took heed and did not waste food.
In fifty years of eating this was the first mango and cream omelet I’ve eaten. I need to go back for more them. Truly delicious. A must have and equal to custard tarts IMHO.
So what did I think about Oriental Yum Cha? It was my first time but my daughters and parents had been there a few times before. They reckon it is consistently good. Not the best they’ve ever eaten but always good. I’d agree it was good. The food appeared and tasted fresh. The flavours were good. The service was friendly, helpful and easy going. We were able to get some things cut with scissors and if something was in short supply we could ask for more to come out. The meal was also reasonable in terms of price. It didn’t break the bank and my wallet didn’t suffer a knock out punch. I’d be happy returning and eating more Oriental Yum Cha 
We spent the afternoon recovering and trying not to move too much. I was charged with cooking dinner so I went simple and baked some salmon with some kale coleslaw and avocado. Mum made a hazelnut chocolate cheesecake which she served with salted caramel ice cream.
Here is my Australia Day roast lamb dinner. You may recall on Sunday I cooked a standing rib roast and in that post embedded a YouTube video outlining the marketing campaign for Australia Day roast lamb.
Before we get to dinner though let’s look at how I spent some of my Australia Day.
For breakfast I enjoyed a green and gold omelet with Coon cheese, a good Australian cheese.
I then went for a walk around Lake Ginninderra.
So I spent a good portion of today cleaning the apartment for a rental inspection tomorrow and also binge watching World War II in colour on Netflix. Nothing like learning a little modern history while my Australia Day roast lamb was cooking. I’m so grateful to the warfighters and civilians who fought and died for our freedom and our way of life.
So this Australia Day roast lamb was all about a low slow oven cook. I used the leftover beef stock and quinoa with green peppercorns from my roast beef to enrich the flavour of my roast lamb.
The rest of the meat has been divided in half and vacuum packed for future meals.
