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My new food tube

Miss15 bought me a couple of food tubes this weekend. I was up in Brisbane visiting my daughters and we went shopping and Miss15 asked if I wanted anything for the fathers day just past a few weeks ago. We were in kitchenware shop looking at cake decorating stuff and I saw a couple of food tubes.

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I seared some Atlantic salmon and mashed some potato and sweet potato in my ricer. I put it into the food tube and created a mash tower in the centre of the plate. I topped this with spring onions. I made a thickish honey soy sauce (it had caramelised and become sticky) to drizzle on the mash stack and vegetables.

And to prove I could do it again, this is from Monday night.

A little explosion of happiness in my mouth (garydavidlum.com)
Crumbed chicken and mashed spuds (garydavidlum.com)
What’s sweet potatoes got to do with it? (one.org)
Sweet Potato Bake (sweetherseykisses.com)
Fudgy Sweet Potato Truffles (eatrecyclerepeat.com)
Sweet Potato Croquettes: Japanese Recipe (shizuokagourmet.com)
Scrumptious Sweet Potato Dog Treats (wagthedoguk.com)
Flatbread Recipe: Norwegian Potato Lefse – Recipes from The Kitchn (thekitchn.com)
Food food glorious food! (babiesandus.wordpress.com)
Food Tube Must See- “Our Daily Bread” (ieatfreely.com)

Honey soy salmon

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After such a big weekend in food and a long day at work I thought something simple was needed. Then I remembered I still had some Zymil lactose-free gluten-free light cream in the refrigerator. I had opened it early last week and I needed to get one more use out of the small bottle. On the way home I bought a couple of spuds and thought salmon on a bed of mash with some veges. Bron regularly mentions the lack of greens on my plate so I steamed some asparagus and broccolini as greens. I also steamed some carrot and added some honey after it was soft and tender. The honey is important because when it is warm it’s runny and along with some of the water from the carrot I used it for the honey soy sauce at the end.

I love my potato ricer. It is such a neat invention and makes such great mash. I boiled two spuds and put them through my ricer and added a dollop of cream plus a tablespoon of Dijon mustard and a teaspoon of garlic from a bottle of raw garlic. This was stirred in along with some finely sliced spring onion and some salt and pepper.

After pan frying the salmon and making sure the skin was crispy I added the honey juice from the carrot to the fry pan and then a dash of soy. I reduced this a little and spooned the sauce over the salmon.

The result was a delicious meal of salmon, mash, greens and carrot.

Honey soy salmon with asparagus, broccolini, carrot and mash (Nikon D90)

Talking About a Soy Sauce Revolution… (diykoreanfood.com)
Poached Soy Salmon (bookcasefoodie.wordpress.com)
Foodie Interview with Kate Olsson (pipandwillow.wordpress.com)
Honey Chicken (or Chicken, Honey!) (yestersdinner.wordpress.com)
Recipe of the Day: Sesame Seed-Crusted Salmon Burger with Yogurt Sauce (news.health.com)
Honey-Soy Salmon, Coconut + Crispy Kale Tacos (fingerforkknife.wordpress.com)
Honey Salmon, Honey Drinks & Honey Fruit Salad | Pottery Barn (potterybarn.com)
Probably the yummiest salmon noodles you will ever eat. (springjumps.com)
Honey soy sauce chicken drumsticks (snixykitchen.com)
Smoked Salmon Quiche (thekartchronicles.wordpress.com)

Duck pancakes, homemade from scratch!

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Bron has been talking about Peking duck and duck pancakes for weeks. She has been looking at various recipes and had settled on a modified Donna Hay recipe. When I say modified, I mean taking the best ideas from other recipes and using them in her creation.

I remember when my Mum made a Peking duck as a kid. It took her a weekend. I recall she built her own airing frame and had a fan set up to help dry out the duck.

Bron’s didn’t take that long and honestly it was an awesome product we had in the end. Bron reckons the most difficult part was getting the hang of making the pancakes.