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Mum’s pork and peas with Chinese sausage

Posted by Gary

Mum’s pork and peas with Chinese sausage brings back some not so pleasant memories. I have this notion in my head that Mum cooked this for us at least once a week when we were growing up in primary school and high school.

Dedicated to my Mum who despite my protestations still cooked great Chinese food for all the family.

Thanks Mum
Tuesday tea. Pork, Chinese sausage, and peas. As a kid Mum seemed to make pork and peas at least once a week. She says this isn’t true. In addition to the regular racism at primary school which resulted in my eschewing any Chinese food, I have set in my mind a dislike for this dish. Mum said she recently made this for a nephew and nieces and they enjoyed it. I decided I should have a go at cooking it myself. Pork and peas Ingredients 1 onion chopped 500 grams pork mince 2 tablespoons Black bean sauce 1 splash whiskey ½ teaspoon sugar 1 tablespoon fish sauce 1 teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon sesame oil 1 teaspoon crushed ginger 1 clove garlic 1 packet of Chinese sausage 1 kilogram frozen baby peas Method Into the mince add black bean sauce, fish sauce, sesame oil, sugar, pepper, ginger, garlic, whiskey, and mix well and all to sit. Put Chinese sausage into hot water to soften Sauté onions in Queensland nut oil Cook peas in salted water until soft In batches brown the marinated pork mince Slice the softened Chinese sausage and add to the pork and mix Cook the mince and Chinese sausage until it’s incorporated and coalesces Then add the peas and stir through. Serve in a bowl
Tuesday tea. Pork, Chinese sausage, and peas.
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Macaroni cheese with salmon and some Monday link love

Posted by Gary

If you liked my macaroni cheese with cheerios, here’s a recipe for an easy yet sophisticated macaroni cheese with salmon and some Canberra food blogger Monday link love.

Macaroni cheese with salmon and some Monday link love
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
  • Macaroni a handful
  • Salmon diced
  • Peas, corn and capsicum frozen
  • Cheese Coon grated and some grated parmesan
  • Cream a good dash
  • Curry powder
  • Panko bread crumbs
  • Spring onions
  • Avocado
Instructions
  1. Get everything ready in advance because you do this in a sequence
  2. Add the macaroni to boiling salted water
  3. Cook for about 4 minutes and add some curry powder (as much as you want)
  4. Add the diced salmon to the boiling water with macaroni
  5. Cook for a further 4 minutes and then add the frozen vegetables with the spring onions
  6. Drain everything and add it all to a bowl
  7. Add a dash of cream and stir through
  8. Add in the grated cheese until everything starts to stiffen up
  9. Transfer to a bowl and top with some more cheese and panko bread crumbs
  10. Grill until the cheese and bread crumbs brown
  11. Add some avocado to keep [url href=”http://www.notquitenigella.com/” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”]Not Quite Nigella[/url] happy
  12. Shoot a photograph
  13. Eat the meal
  14. Wash the dishes
  15. Write the recipe
  16. Blog (verb)

My Monday night dinner

Salmon and macaroni cheese with avocado
Salmon and macaroni cheese with avocado

My Monday breakfast

Crumpets with condensed milk for breakfast
Crumpets with condensed milk for breakfast

My view as I walked to Australia Post

Woden wind tunnel
Woden wind tunnel

I love my morning coffee from Urban Bean Espresso Bar

Coffee from Urban Bean Espresso Bar
Coffee from Urban Bean Espresso Bar

Monday link love from the Canberra Food Bloggers Facebook group

I hope you’re having a good Monday

 

Quick and easy one pot roast panko chicken thigh and vegetable rice

Posted by Gary

I wasn’t going to blog this. You see so many recipes for roast chicken thigh or chicken maryland on YummyLummy.com. What motivated me to blog tonight about this one pot roast is how quick and easy it was to make while I continued doing some work e-mails.

Panko chicken thigh with pea and corn arborio rice
Panko chicken thigh with pea and corn arborio rice

Quick and easy one pot roast panko chicken thigh and vegetable rice
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: Gary Lum
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Chicken thigh
  • Panko crumbs
  • Grape seed oil
  • Frozen peas
  • Frozen corn
  • Arborio rice
  • Butter
Instructions
  1. In a shallow nonstick bowl or shallow nonstick ovenproof frying pan add a lump of butter
  2. Pile on the frozen peas and corn and then a small handful of arborio rice
  3. Add half a glass of water
  4. In the plastic bag the chicken was sold in add the oil and panko crumbs and make sure the crumbs coat the chicken
  5. Add the chicken on top of the vegetables and rice
  6. Put into a benchtop oven at 200 °C or a conventional fan forced oven at 160 °C for 1 hour
  7. After one hour allow everything to rest for 15 minutes and then serve onto a plate
  8. Shoot a photograph
  9. Eat the meal
  10. Wash the dishes
  11. Write the recipe
  12. Blog (verb)

The vegetables and rice were delicious. The arborio rice absorbed all the chicken juices that dripped from the chicken as it was cooking. I didn’t need to add any salt and the rice had a lovely creamy rich flavour from the chicken and lump of butter. The peas and corn were perfectly cooked because the chicken provided protection from the heat. The panko crumbs add such a lovely crunch to the skin of the chicken.

I’ll share a confession, I didn’t use a knife to eat this meal. My focus tonight was on a piece of work I had to complete so after I shot the photograph I ate most of the rice and vegetables with a fork, peeled the crumbed skin and cloaca off the chicken and then picked up the thigh and ate all the muscle bundles. I then added the remainder of the vegetables and rice into the ‘shell’ of crumbed skin, rolled it and ate it like a crunchy rice and vegetable roll. I was that hungry and it was that delicious. It was also so easy to clean up the dishes. One ‘pot’ and one plate.

Do you have a one pot roast recipe you’d like to share?