Maple syrup

Chicken wings and maple quinoa recipe

Posted by Gary

Normally I buy Chicken Maryland pieces but this week I have gone with chicken wings. I was thinking soy honey but ended up with maple quinoa. I hope you like this quinoa recipe.

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As is my want at the moment I cooked the quinoa in the baking tray to soak up the chicken juices as the chicken cooks. This quinoa recipe is so easy, it cooks itself.

Chicken wings and maple quinoa recipe
 
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: Gary Lum
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Chicken wings
  • Quinoa
  • Fennel
  • Parsley
  • Capers
  • Red onion
  • White wine
  • Lime zest
  • Lime juice
  • Jalapeño pepper
  • Red chili pepper
  • Tasty coon cheese
Instructions
  1. Heat the oven to 150 °C
  2. In the baking tray add ⅓ cup of tricolour quinoa and then ⅓ cup white wine and then ⅓ cup water
  3. Place the chicken wings on a rack above the quinoa
  4. Drizzle one maple syrup over the chicken
  5. Grind some salt and then pepper over the chicken
  6. Add some tasty Coon cheese over the chicken
  7. Place in the oven for 1 hour
  8. As the chicken is ready to come out of the oven prepare a fennel salad with a little bite by adding the peppers plus the zest of the lime
  9. Let the chicken rest for 20 minutes while preparing the salad
  10. Spoon out the quinoa from the baking tray, it will have absorbed the chicken juices and maple syrup and will be crunchy
  11. The cheese will have also melted and dripped into the tray combining with some of the quinoa
  12. Plate up the wings and quinoa and then add the salad
  13. Shoot a photograph
  14. Eat the dish and savour the sweetness and crunchiness of the quinoa and then the cheesy goodness of the coating on the roasted chicken skin and the perfectly succulent chicken meat
  15. Wash the dishes after an initial soaking
  16. Write the recipe
  17. Blog (verb)
 

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Do you like chicken wings? How about maple quinoa and  chicken wings?

Smoked leg ham and maple syrup salad

Posted by Gary
Smoked leg ham and maple syrup salad
Smoked leg ham and maple syrup salad

I was sitting down watching My Kitchen Rules and posted this photograph on Instagram and @igerscanberra was keen to get the recipe. 

Smoked leg ham and maple syrup salad
 
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: Gary Lum
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Smoked leg ham
  • Maple syrup
  • Avocado
  • Fried shallots
  • Sesame seeds
  • Stuff for coleslaw
  • Limes
  • Parsley
Instructions
  1. Slice the smoked leg ham as shreds and heat in an oven at 220 °C for 15 minutes
  2. Make a coleslaw and put into a bowl
  3. Add the avocado
  4. Add some lime juice to taste and to keep the avocado green
  5. Chop some parsley
  6. Add the ham when it’s cooked
  7. Add the fried shallots
  8. Add the sesame seeds
  9. Add a dash of maple syrup for a touch of sweetness and to balance the lime juice
  10. Add the parsley and keep a little to make the photograph look good
  11. Add some cracked pepper
  12. Shoot a photograph
  13. Eat the meal
  14. Wash the dishes
  15. Post the image to Instagram while watching MKR
  16. Respond to a reply and write the recipe and blog (verb)
 

 

It was a pretty good salad and a nice way to finish a day after a few long days at work. We’ve got the Ebola Response Taskforce going plus the Frozen Berries contaminated by Hepatitis A virus situation as well as the usual sort of work in the department.  We had senate estimates yesterday. Our outcomes were on first thing as part of the whole of portfolio session and then late last night when communicable diseases and health security sessions were on. 

So what’s your salad of choice after a long day at work?

Maple syrup flavoured bacon and spam salad

Posted by Gary

Maple syrup flavoured bacon is a well known flavour combination, especially with pancakes, waffles or French toast. 

What about adding maple syrup to spam? 

I like a salad that has a little sweetness to it and tonight the only ‘dressing’ was some lemon juice and the cooking ‘juices’ from the oven cooked spam and bacon.

I really like the photograph. The colours came out nicely of the maple syrup flavoured bacon and spam salad. I did a bit of retouching in Adobe Lightroom.

If you click on the image you will be taken to an attachment page. Under the image on that page if you click on 2048 × 2048 you’ll be brought to the original image. Now if you have a nice big monitor, if you click once more on that image you’ll see a full resolution version and the detail is lovely.

Maple syrup flavoured bacon and spam salad
Maple syrup flavoured bacon and spam salad NIKON D7100 with 40.0 mm f/2.8 at 40mm and f/8, 1/80sec, ISO 400
Maple syrup flavoured bacon and spam salad
 
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: Gary Lum
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Spam with real Hormel® Bacon
  • Streaky bacon
  • Beetroot coleslaw
  • Avocado
  • Fried shallots
  • Lemon juice
  • Maple syrup
  • Pepper
Instructions
  1. Dice the bacon and spam and put into a baking tray
  2. Pour over the bacon and spam some maple syrup
  3. Cook the bacon and spam in an oven at 220 °C for 20 minutes
  4. Prepare a beetroot coleslaw and add some avocado and lemon juice
  5. When the spam and bacon are cooked add to the salad bowl and mix
  6. Shoot a photograph
  7. Eat the meal
  8. Wash the dishes
  9. Write the recipe
  10. Blog (verb)
 

 

Tonight I used the Spam Bacon
Tonight I used the Spam Bacon NIKON D810 with 90.0 mm f/2.8 at 90mm and f/8, 1/15sec, ISO 80

French toast with bacon and maple syrup

Posted by Gary

I think bacon and maple syrup go hand in hand like waffles and ice cream

What can be simpler than beating some eggs with some cream. I add a pinch of salt and some brown sugar to the mix before soaking my bread. Ideally I would have used a thick slice of brioche but all I had this morning was some Helga’s pumpkin seed bread. Perhaps not the best for French toast but hey I’m not complaining. 

The streaky bacon was just cooked in the bench top oven. When the toast was ready in the frying pan I added the bacon and poured a generous amount of maple syrup on the bacon. I like a bit of ground cinnamon too. 

Beaten egg and cream NIKON D5300 with 40.0 mm f/2.8 at 40mm and f/8, 1/60sec, ISO 1250
Beaten egg and cream NIKON D5300 with 40.0 mm f/2.8 at 40mm and f/8, 1/60sec, ISO 1250
A bowl of beaten egg and cream with a slice of bread and some Cinnamon. NIKON D5300 with 40.0 mm f/2.8 at 40mm and f/8, 1/60sec, ISO 1100
A bowl of beaten egg and cream with a slice of bread and some Cinnamon. NIKON D5300 with 40.0 mm f/2.8 at 40mm and f/8, 1/60sec, ISO 1100
French toast in the frying pan. NIKON D5300 with 40.0 mm f/2.8 at 40mm and f/8, 1/60sec, ISO 1000
French toast in the frying pan. NIKON D5300 with 40.0 mm f/2.8 at 40mm and f/8, 1/60sec, ISO 1000
French toast with bacon and maple syrup. NIKON D7100 with 90.0 mm f/2.8 at 90mm and f/16, 1/40sec, ISO 400
French toast with bacon and maple syrup. NIKON D7100 with 90.0 mm f/2.8 at 90mm and f/16, 1/40sec, ISO 400