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Monday link love

Posted by Gary

Monday link love is something I have been doing on Monday posts for a couple of months. I usually add a list to the end of a post. Tonight I really didn’t have anything to write about so I figured I’d just call this post Monday link love.

Apart from my routine of adding links from our Canberra Food Bloggers Facebook group I wanted to mention a few blogs I’ve started following recently.

As a result of following Little Monster Girl I’ve gotten to know a few more bloggers who all follow Jennifer’s webcomic.

  • Travels with Choppy is Sarah’s story about her dog Choppy, her cat Schooner and her life
  • Jules Rules is Jules’ story about her rules of life and a new book she’s writing
  • Ana Calin’s Blog is Ana’s outlet for psychology quizzes and her fiction
  • Hyperion Sturm is an outlet for a cool blogger who writes about some dark aspects of life in fiction
  • Irene Design is Irene’s jewellery blog along with some photographs from Spain

Here are some posts from today’s link sharing from the Canberra Food Bloggers group

Of course I need to share some food photography of my own.

I started my morning with coffee

Microorganisms are essential to fine food like truffles. Great #coffee from Urban Bean Espresso Bar @asmicrobiology

A photo posted by Yummy Lummy | Gary Lum (@yummylummyblog) on

I had French vanilla almonds for morning tea

French vanilla almonds #lark filter #morningtea

A photo posted by Yummy Lummy | Gary Lum (@yummylummyblog) on

I had a toasted cheese and tomato croissant for lunch

 

For dinner I had a mammal-free Monday salmon salad with crunchy nuts

Photograph of Mammal-free Monday Salmon salad with crunchy nuts and a Bundaberg ginger beer for Monday link love
Mammal-free Monday Salmon salad with crunchy nuts and a Bundaberg ginger beer.

For dessert I had a minty milkshake with Milo

Photograph of Mint and Milo Milkshake for Monday link love
Mint and Milo Milkshake

Standing rib eye roast beef

Posted by Gary

Standing rib eye roast beef is one of my favourite roasts. The meat near the rib bones is always tender and it’s always moist. Not as much flavour as the blade and other cuts but the fatty loose tissue near the bone is to die for.

With Australia Day coming up on Tuesday 26 January I was thinking of either lamb or beef. There is now an undue amount of commercial pressure to eat lamb on Australia Day. The advertising campaign has been very successful. Check out this year’s advertisement. I’m sorry there is a little Channel 7 at the end.

So I’ve decided to cook the rib eye roast tonight and I’ll have lamb on Australia Day.

Standing rib eye roast beef
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: [url href=”http://garylum.me” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”]Gary Lum[/url]
Prep time:
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Standing rib eye roast 1 kilogram
  • [cap id=”attachment_15562″ align=”alignnone” width=”1200″][url href=”undefined”][img src=”https://yummylummy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2016-01-24_11.12.54_005_GARY_LUM_FB.jpg” width=”1200″ height=”1200″ class=” size-full” title=”Roast beef” alt=”Photograph of Roast rib eye beef standing rib roast”][/url]Roast rib eye beef standing rib roast[/cap]
  • Onion
  • Lemon
  • Carrots
  • Red quinoa
  • White quinoa
  • Green peppercorns
  • Kale coleslaw
  • Mixed nuts crushed
  • Kensington Pride mango
Instructions
  1. In a baking tray may a trivet with onion and add the lemon, quinoa, and carrots
  2. Cook at 140 °C for thee hours
  3. Prepare a salad with kale coleslaw, crushed mixed nuts and mango
  4. When the roast is finished cooking, all it to rest for 20 minutes
  5. Scoop out the quinoa and peppercorns and add to the coleslaw as a dressing
  6. Cut between the bones and vacuum pack on half for another meal
  7. Serve up and shoot a photograph
  8. Eat the meal and hope I can digest it all before dessert
  9. Wash the dishes
  10. Write the recipe
  11. Blog (verb)

Here are some photographs of my rib eye roast. It was worth waiting for this.

Photograph of Roast rib eye beef standing rib roast
Roast rib eye beef standing rib roast
Photograph of baking tray with vegetables
Baking tray with vegetables
Photograph of Roast rib eye beef standing rib roast
Roast rib eye beef standing rib roast
Photograph of Roast rib eye beef standing rib roast
Roast rib eye beef standing rib roast
Roast rib eye beef standing rib roast
Roast rib eye beef standing rib roast
Standing rib eye roast beef with mango, quinoa, kale and nut coleslaw served with carrots, onion and green peppercorns
Standing rib eye roast beef with mango, quinoa, kale and nut coleslaw served with carrots, onion and green peppercorns

Earlier in the afternoon I had a Full Moon cake from Ricardo’s cafe and patisserie at Jamison.

Photograph of Full Moon from Ricardo's cafe and patisserie
Full Moon from Ricardo’s cafe and patisserie

Do you like rib eye roast beef? How do you cook it?

Super delicious leftover vacuum packed roast beef

Posted by Gary

Super delicious leftover vacuum packed roast beef! What more can I say. On Sunday I wrote about how to make super delicious roast beef and I mentioned that I would do the vacuum packing thing again. A friend on Facebook mentioned sous vide and I am definitely wanting to get into sous vide however I have very little available space in the apartment I rent.

As I mentioned on Sunday night’s post I split the piece of blade I had into three portions. I vacuum packed two. Last night I pulled one piece of vacuum packed roast beef out of the freezer and let it defrost in the refrigerator. By the time I got home this afternoon the meat and onion and quinoa were thawed out.

Photograph of Vacuum packed beef, quinoa and onion out of the refrigerator
Vacuum packed beef, quinoa and onion out of the refrigerator
Super delicious leftover vacuum packed roast beef
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: [url href=”http://about.me/garydlum” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”]Gary Lum[/url]
Prep time:
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Leftover vacuum packed blade beef, onion and quinoa
  • Kale coleslaw
  • Aioli
  • Lemon zest
Instructions
  1. Bring a large saucepan of water to about 90 °C (use a thermometer)
  2. Add the meat, onion and quinoa with peppercorns (in the bag)
  3. Warm through for 30 minutes keeping the temperature between 80 and 90 °C
  4. Prepare the coleslaw
  5. Plate up and shoot a photograph
  6. Eat the meal and marvel at just how tender and flavourful the meat is
  7. Wash the dishes
  8. Write the recipe
  9. Blog (verb)

I just loved this. The meat of the vacuum packed roast beef was so tender and so full of flavour. I’d highly recommend using a piece of blade beef and roasting it and keeping leftovers vacuum packed. If you live alone and need food in the freezer, this is perfect. It’s so easy to prepare and you’ll be satisfied by the flavour.

Photograph of Vacuum packed roast beef, quinoa and onion with kale coleslaw and green peppercorns
Vacuum packed roast beef, quinoa and onion with kale coleslaw and green peppercorns
Photograph of Vacuum packed roast beef, quinoa and onion with kale coleslaw and green peppercorns
Vacuum packed roast beef, quinoa and onion with kale coleslaw and green peppercorns

If you make this please let me know how you go.

Salmon salad with crunchy nuts

Posted by Gary

Salmon salad with crunchy nuts sounds delightful doesn’t it?

A photograph of Baked salmon mango avocado kale quinoa salad with crunchy nuts
Baked salmon mango avocado kale quinoa salad with crunchy nuts

In my opinion enjoying food isn’t just about taste but also texture and mouthfeel. I didn’t realise mouthfeel was a word until I started food blogging. When I was younger I really liked really crunchy (like crunchy nuts) and chewy (like nougat) foods but being a child of a less than enlightened government dental health policy in Queensland in the 1960s and 1970s, I never had the benefit of fluoridated water. That’s about my only complaint I’ll ever share about Queensland Government when I was growing up. Without fluoridated water, coupled with a stubborn refusal to obey my mother’s instructions to regularly brush and floss my teeth thoroughly, many of my teeth have cavities and fillings. I have three ceramic crowns and two gold crowns worth thousands of dollars not to mention about half of my teeth have had root canal treatments.

Sorry, back to mouthfeel. I like the smoothness of some mango in salad as well as the crunch of some nuts not to mention the creaminess of avocado. Tonight I enjoyed the soft warm flakey feel of just cooked Atlantic salmon along with the sweet tangy happiness of mango and the robust texture of some crushed crunchy nuts.

Do you like crunchy nuts?

Salmon salad with crunchy nuts
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: [url href=”http://about.me/garydlum” target=”_blank”]Gary Lum[/url]
Prep time:
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Atlantic salmon 1 fillet
  • Kale coleslaw 1 cup
  • Kensington Pride mango 1 diced
  • Hass Avocado 1 diced
  • Mixed nuts ¼ cup
  • Lemon zest and juice of one lemon
Instructions
  1. [url href=”http://bit.ly/perfectlybakedsalmon” target=”_blank”]Bake the salmon[/url]
  2. Make the salad
  3. I usually put the nuts into a small plastic bag and with a metal tenderiser I lightly crush the nuts
  4. Flake the salmon through the salad
  5. Plate up and shoot a photograph
  6. Eat the meal
  7. Wash the dishes
  8. Write the recipe
  9. Blog (verb)

Monday blogging link love

Today I wanted to share some links from the Canberra Food Bloggers Facebook group as well as some other bloggers I’m friendly with.

Little Monster Girl | Jennifer | I’ve done a shout out to LMG before. Jennifer remains one of my most engaged and engaging social media friends (across Twitter, Flickr and blogging). NSFW

Shenaniganagain | Rose | I’ve only just started following Shenaniganagain today. After I made a comment on a post by The Bloggess today, Rose liked my comment. I took a look and discovered Rose has irritable bowel syndrome. We shared a little about our dreams to fart with confidence.

Champagne and Chips | Nicole | I met Nicole at Eat Drink Blog 2015 in Canberra and have enjoyed reading her twice a week updates for some time.

Off centre and not even | Timothy | This is a photography blog that usually links to Timothy’s Zenfolio profile

 

From the Canberra Food Blogging scene

Michele | Tavern 42° South Hobart https://fineeating.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/tavern-42-degrees-south-hobart/

Anna | ’Art meets food’ at the Wedgwood Tea Room http://shenannagans.com/wedgwood-tea-room/

Rose | A typical Saturday in Canberra http://www.travelandbeyond.org/2016/01/14/saturday-in-canberra/

Bec | Patissez, Canberra City http://www.inexplicablewanderlust.com/patissez-canberra-city/

Elissa | Vegetarian pastry parcels with roast vegetables and goat cheese http://fivebeansfood.com/2016/01/17/vegetarian-pastry-parcels-with-roast-vegetables-and-goat-cheese/

Serina | $5 Friday: New Year’s diet Thai green chicken curry http://msfrugalears.com/2016/01/15/5-friday-new-years-diet-thai-green-chicken-curry/

How to make super delicious roast beef

Posted by Gary

How to make super delicious roast beef? It’s easy. Low and slow. I can guarantee tender tasty and succulent beef like you’ve never had before.

Last week I made some slowly roasted lamb shoulder and did a leftover roast lamb thing with my vacuum packaging machine (aka the Sunbeam FoodSaver).

I was speaking with Mum on Monday afternoon and she mentioned she had cooked a nice piece of blade. Blade is a cut that is often tough and chewy if it isn’t cooked properly. I wondered how it would go if I roasted it and then vacuum packed some of it. Well this is a part one and tonight I’ll focus on the first stage, i.e., the low and slow roasting.

How to make super delicious roast beef
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: [url href=”http://about.me/garydlum” target=”_blank”]Gary Lum[/url]
Prep time:
Cook time:
Total time:
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Beef blade 500 g piece
  • Tricolour quinoa 100 g
  • Green peppercorns 1 tin
  • Garlic half a dozen cloves
  • Lemon zested and quartered, save the juice for the salad
  • Water
  • Star anise 2 stars
  • Mango
  • Avocado
  • Kale coleslaw
  • Spring onions
  • Brown onion 1 large one
Instructions
  1. Bring the blade to room temperature and heat the oven to 150 °C (300 °F)
  2. In a baking tray add 1 cm (½ inch) of water
  3. Add the tin of green peppercorns
  4. Add the garlic cloves (you may also want to add some ginger)
  5. Add the lemon quarters to each point of the baking tray
  6. Cut the onion in half and use as a trivet
  7. Add the meat and place it on top of the onion
  8. Season the meat with salt and pepper and add the lemon zest and star anise
  9. Cover with aluminium (not aluminum) foil and seal
  10. Place into the oven for 3 hours
  11. Once the meat is cooked allow it to rest for 20 minutes
  12. While the meat is resting, make the salad
  13. Dice the avocado and mango and add to the kale coleslaw
  14. From the baking tray remove and discard the lemon, garlic and star anise
  15. Drain the quinoa and peppercorns, keep the stock and put into the refrigerator
  16. Add a tablespoon of the tasty quinoa peppercorns to the salad and mix in with the lemon juice and some of the lemon zest
  17. Cut the meat into thirds
  18. Vacuum pack two piece of meat separately with half an onion each plus half of the remaining quinoa peppercorns in each
  19. Slice the remaining beef thinly
  20. Plate up the salad and add the meat on top
  21. Shoot a photograph
  22. In future try to remember to snapchat a photograph (yes my snapchat handle is yummy_lummy)
  23. Eat the meal
  24. Wash the dishes
  25. Write the recipe
  26. Blog (verb)
  27. Watch TV on Netflix

Here are some photographs of this afternoon’s endeavours.

A photograph of Blade beef fresh out of the refrigerator with a nice layer of fat
Blade beef fresh out of the refrigerator with a nice layer of fat. I’ll tell you know the fat was delicious.
A photograph of Preparing the baking tray with an onion, garlic, green peppercorns, lemon and tricolour quinoa
Preparing the baking tray with an onion, garlic, green peppercorns, lemon and tricolour quinoa
A photograph of Preparing slow roasted blade beef with lemon zest and star anise
Preparing slow roasted blade beef with lemon zest and star anise
Peppermint milkshake
Peppermint milkshake
A photograph Straight from the oven. Blade beef all nice and tender.
Straight from the oven. Blade beef all nice and tender.
A photograph of Sunday dinner. Roast beef with mango avocado kale quinoa coleslaw with lemon.
Sunday dinner. Roast beef with mango avocado kale quinoa coleslaw with lemon.

So sometime later I’ll thaw out a piece of vacuum packed beef, reheat it and then enjoy it. I’ll let you know what it’s like.

Have you got a favourite roast beef recipe? How do you cook it?