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Fun food on the Sandgate mudflats at low tide

Posted by Gary

It’s been a quiet week. Last weekend I was down with a head cold, you know, ManFlu. I ended up working from home on Monday because I was really congested and coughing badly. I’m still coughing but at least I feel okay in my head.

Work was busy with a heap of small or medium sized tasks that just had to be done. Wednesday though was a bad one. Wednesday morning, I woke up at 1 am with something on my mind and I just couldn’t get back to sleep. Coupled with the head cold it meant I felt like a zombie while I was at work. I suppose it doesn’t matter in the scheme of things because Wednesday’s productivity across the globe was probably down slightly because it coincided with the US presidential election. Yummy Lummy isn’t a place for political commentary so all I’ll say is that I made sure I had a nice meal while I was watching the television reporting of the results including the victory and concession speeches.

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The highlight for me this week was flying to Brisbane on Friday night and spending the weekend with my daughters and my parents.

The flight from Canberra to Brisbane started well. I got a seat in the exit row and had a meal of meatballs and mashed potato.

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Meatballs with mashed potato
Meatballs with mashed potato

On landing the doors opened and a wave of humidity travelled backwards and hugged me like a child runs up to greet you at an airport and grabs you around your legs. Best feeling in the world!

Ms19 was working Friday night so after arriving at my parents’ place I suggested to Miss15 that we go see Ms19 and get ice cream. Ms21 couldn’t join us, so it was just me and Miss15.

I had a nice caramel condensed milk ice cream with a Ferrero Rocher crushed into it.

Caramel condensed milk with Ferrero Rocher
Caramel condensed milk with Ferrero Rocher

After a pretty crappy sleep (I don’t travel with my CPAP machine) we went and had breakfast at The Groove Train in Chermside.

I had a nice granola which I think did something to really stimulate my gastrocolic reflex because my irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) went crazy. It’s a good thing I was close to a clean toilet.

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Now that Ms19 has retired from gymnastics we’re not totally bound to a sports schedule. Miss15 had a gymnastics evaluation from 2.30 to 5.30 pm and Ms21 was working so what to do between 11 and 1.30? We ended up taking a short drive to Sandgate and walking from the swimming pool to the big jetty and back. All up it’s about a 5 km walk. It was really warm and overcast and it was low tide. The sea breeze was really nice. The smell from the mudflats though wasn’t that good. In fact, it was pretty rank. That part of Sandgate with a view of the water and the sea breeze is really nice. The low tide smell though would make me think twice about living there unless I could keep the house fresh.

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After a pretty good walk, we went to the Sandgate fishmonger and bought some potato scallops with crumbed squid. Like most good shops, especially in Queensland, when you ask for some potato scallops you inevitably get n+1 with n being the number of scallops you ask for. These potato scallops were really nice. The crumbed squid was also really good. If you’re visiting Sandgate and want a nice takeaway deep fried meal, I can recommend the Sandgate Fishmonger.

Potato scallops and crumbed calamari
Potato scallops and crumbed calamari
Sandgate fishmonger
Sandgate fishmonger
Potato scallops and crumbed calamari
Potato scallops and crumbed calamari

After taking Miss15 to gymnastics, Ms19 and I had been thinking about going out for a milkshake somewhere. As it turned out we were pretty full from lunch and the weather put on a show which made driving less than ideal. Brisbane was treated to a really nice thunderstorm. The rain was heavy, the thunder was loud and the sky almost went black. I love this sort of weather. The rain lasted about 45 minutes and afterwards the air freshened and the heat was gone. Perfect subtropical weather. You can’t ask for better.

For dinner, we went to Thr3e Restaurant in the Kedron-Wavell RSL club. This is a cheap and cheerful buffet affair with upgrades. I had a nice seafood platter and Mum and Dad had a bucket of prawns.

Seafood platter
Seafood platter
Seafood platter
Seafood platter
Buffet plate
Buffet plate

We all went to bed feeling fairly sated.

Sunday broke with a brilliant warm and moist morning. Mum and Dad had planned a big breakfast. We had bacon, sausages, pikelets, fried eggs and cooked tomatoes. It’s always good having breakfast with my daughters and parents.

Bacon, sausage, tomato, egg and pikelet at Wheller on the Park #breakfast #yummylummy #foodporn #yummy #delicious #instafood #iphone #bne #brisbane
Bacon, sausage, tomato, egg and pikelet at Wheller on the Park
#breakfast #yummylummy #foodporn #yummy #delicious #instafood #iphone #bne #brisbane
Maply syrup and bacon on a pikelet
Maply syrup and bacon on a pikelet
These plates are older than me
These plates are older than me

I’m now back in Canberra where it is cold, windy and wet. I wish I was back with my daughters in Brisbane.

Cheesy chicken wings with spam

Posted by Gary
The Yummy Lummy Cooking for one podcast
The Yummy Lummy Cooking for one podcast
Cheesy chicken wings with spam
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Spam and chicken again!

Even though cheesy chicken wings make great footy food, there isn’t any football worth watching tonight.

So the manflu continues. Last night was awful, I coughed all night. This morning as I lumbered out of bed my throat felt like it was on fire, my neck was stiff from a really poor ‘sleeping’ position but my phlegm wasn’t as tenacious as it was yesterday. Perhaps the spam helped after all.

Some friends on social media have suggested a chicken broth may help. I’m too lazy to make chicken soup. As I was shopping this morning I thought it would be nice to use up the remaining spam and have some chicken wings.

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What you need to make this

  • About 500 grams of chicken wings
  • Olive oil
  • Some diced spam
  • Grated Coon cheese
  • Slices of red, green and yellow capsicum
  • Wedges of potato
  • Slices of onion
  • Some chopped jalapeño pepper and red chilli with spring onions and chives
  • Panko crumbs

How do you put it all together?

  1. In a large bowl add the chicken wings and everything except the chopped jalapeño pepper and red chilli with spring onions and chives
  2. Mix everything well and then lay it out on some baking paper in a roasting tray
  3. Cook in an oven at 150 °C for 1 hour
  4. Remove from the oven and garnish with the chopped jalapeño pepper and red chilli with spring onions and chives
  5. Set aside some cheesy chicken wings and spam for lunches

Prepare it for a photograph

  1. Plate up
  2. Shoot a photograph
  3. Eat the meal of cheesy chicken wings and spam
  4. Wash the dishes
  5. Make a nice picture using Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop
  6. Write the recipe
  7. Blog and Vlog (verbs)
Spam with cheesy chicken wings
Spam with cheesy chicken wings

How did the cheesy chicken wings taste?

Great. These cheesy chicken wings would be great to eat while watching the footy.

By the way, I was so happy that Fiji won the rugby 7s at the Rio Olympic Games. There is no more deserving team. I can just imagine how their government will react. Hopefully the team will receive a ticker tape welcome on their return.

Final words

If you try this dish please let me know what you think.

I’d love a photograph and a comment.

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What I ate today

Posted by Gary

I’m developing a head cold. The dreaded #ManFlu At lunch time I didn’t even feel like shooting a photograph of the toasted English muffin with congee sandwich.

For breakfast I had spaghetti on an English muffin. I didn’t realise a small tin of spaghetti has almost no saturated fat. A minute on high in the microwave oven and a few minutes for the muffin in the toaster and voila a quick breakfast.

For dinner I struggled to think of something quick and easy. In the end I pulled a beef burger from the freezer. Sure red meat isn’t exactly #LowFat but I cooked it by putting it into my benchtop oven without any oil and just cooked it at 200 °C for 15 minutes. I toasted some linseed and soy bread and made a beef, lettuce and tomato sandwich for tea. I’m particularly pleased with the photograph of the sandwich.

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So what did you have to eat today?

Baked salmon with udon noodles, quinoa and kale

Posted by Gary
This is a photograph of my Baked salmon with quinoa udon noodles and kale
Baked salmon with quinoa udon noodles and kale

So I’m still doing the udon noodles thing. As I was driving home from work today I was chatting with Mum and explained the meal at XO Restaurant Narrabundah and how I made garlic prawns and bacon with udon noodles. She said she didn’t like them because they were too thick however she thought the concept of Asian bolognese was really interesting.

I had a pretty good day at work although I have a splitting headache because of my lingering persistent cough after my bout of ManFlu last week. I wasn’t really in the mood for anything fancy for dinner. I wanted something quick and easy. Given how simple it was to prepare the udon noodles from the other night and given the amount of Atlantic salmon I have the refrigerator, it was a simple decision to make some noodles with the salmon.

To bake the salmon check out my foolproof method for baking salmon.

Baked salmon with udon noodles, quinoa and kale
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
  • 90 g [url href=”http://www.hakubaku.com/en/” target=”_blank”]Hakubaku organic udon noodles[/url]
  • 100 g white uncooked quinoa
  • 1 piece Atlantic salmon with skin on
  • 1 handful of chopped kale
  • 2 teaspoons chilli flakes
  • 1 teaspoon cracked black pepper
  • 1 tablespoon Greek yoghurt
  • 100 mL light coconut milk
  • 1 tablespoon fried shallots
  • 1 tablespoon flaked almonds
Instructions
  1. [url href=”https://yummylummy.com/2015/10/23/perfectly-baked-salmon/” target=”_blank”]Bake salmon[/url]
  2. When the salmon is cooked roughly flake it
  3. Get some water boiling and add the quinoa and the udon noodles for 8 minutes
  4. At the end add in a handful of chopped kale and take off the heat
  5. Drain the noodles, quinoa and kale and then add to a hot frying pan
  6. Add flaked salmon and stir in with the Greek yoghurt, light coconut milk, fried shallots, and flaked almonds
  7. Plate up half and put the other half in a container for the refrigerator for lunch tomorrow
  8. Shoot a photograph
  9. [url href=”https://youtu.be/1iX4zrvOsik” target=”_blank”]Record a time-lapse video while eating[/url]
  10. Wash the dishes
  11. Write the recipe
  12. Blog (verb)

Do you like udon noodles?

Bacon or salmon

Posted by Gary

Well it’s not really a question of bacon or salmon. Occasionally it can be bacon and salmon.

***Please note the medical disclaimer****

I came home early today with ManFlu which gave me an opportunity to focus on work e-mail and do some reading. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released a report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) on the potential causal relationship between the consumption of red meat and processed meat with neoplastic diseases. The paper in Lancet Oncology is available for free. The IARC paper’s authors reported that processed meat can cause bowel carcinoma and red meat probably causes bowel carcinoma. This doesn’t mean if you eat a tin of spam or eat a sausage you’ll develop bowel carcinoma nor does it mean you cannot enjoy a good steak or pork chop occasionally. In my mind if these are occasional treats I’m going to make sure I focus on quality rather than quantity.

What it does mean, and none of this is new information, is you shouldn’t eat bacon everyday but one or two rashers a week is probably okay. A small steak once a week is probably okay too. It also means we need to eat more fruit and vegetables.

What does it mean for me as a lover of red meat and SPAM? Well as I’ve written recently I’m taking my health a little more seriously especially after the faecal occult blood test gift from the government and my first colonoscopy which thankfully didn’t find a bowel carcinoma (yet). With an eye on blood biochemistry and bowel health I’ll still occasionally indulge in bacon and SPAM. After all Canberra boasts Australia’s best artisan bacon and my shelf of shame has three tins of SPAM after so much fun on the Hawaiian holiday adventure.

So tonight I just had salmon mainly because I felt unwell and just wanted something simple. Click on the photograph and you’ll see a short time-lapse video of me eating this bad boy.

Salmon cheeseburger with wasabi aioli
Salmon cheeseburger with wasabi aioli

How do you feel about bacon or salmon?