Taco Saturday

Posted 2016-05-21 by Gary

Have you ever had a Taco Saturday and eaten tacos for breakfast, lunch and dinner? Today I had tortillas filled with goodness three times. This extravaganza was inspired by a blogger friend Julie who is currently on a camping holiday. We started a discussion in the comments of a recent post and the notion of breakfast tacos was raised. It cascaded from there.

This morning started well with a panorama of the sunrise.

I went for a walk to build an appetite.

My breakfast taco was made with a line of cheesy potato gems (tater tots for my US friends), streaky Pialligo Estate Artisanal bacon and creamy buttery scrambled eggs.

Breakfast tortillas with scrambled eggs, bacon, potato gems, salsa, cheese and spring onions

After some grocery shopping I needed my lunch taco which contained smoked salmon with a guacamole laden with chilli.

Smoked salmon and avocado salsa tortilla with chilli, dill, cream cheese, lemon zest and black pepper

After lunch I needed to make some purchases and walked by the lake. I had noticed an abandoned car on my morning walk.

I also spent some time sitting on a bench day dreaming.

For dinner I had some Coles pulled pork and made some macaroni cheese from scratch.

Pulled pork and macaroni cheese tortillas

Have you ever had a Taco Saturday?

If you want to know more about tacos I suggest another Texan, viz., Hilah Johnson. Hilah has a fantastic YouTube channel.

Weekend recovery

Posted 2016-03-07 by Gary

Gary Lum Pialligo Estate streaky bacon — Pialligo Estate streaky bacon

A weekend recovery is what I needed. I’ve recently spent two weeks in Manila for work and ended up getting respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses. Suffice to say I still have a hacking cough which has also given me a sore back and my bowels still feel a little delicate although I feel a lot better now that I can control what I’m eating and breathing fresh air.

On Thursday night I watched Maeve O’Meara on Food Safari on SBS and she did a segment on Pialligo Estate artisan bacon. It’s my favourite bacon. It’s also local bacon smoked in Canberra. I decided I buy some for the weekend.

Friday night I made myself chicken thigh schnitzel burger inspired by Hilah Johnson.

Gary Lum Grilled cheese chicken thigh schnitzel cheeseburger with avocado — Grilled cheese chicken thigh schnitzel cheeseburger with avocado

For Saturday breakfast I made myself a Pialligo Estate streaky bacon and fried egg roll.

Gary Lum Pialligo Estate streaky bacon and fried egg roll — Pialligo Estate streaky bacon and fried egg roll

For lunch I felt like some raw onion and coleslaw with cream cheese

Gary Lum Red onion with coleslaw in a cream cheese sandwich — Red onion with coleslaw in a cream cheese sandwich

For dinner I made a chicken schnitzel sandwich.

Gary Lum Chicken thigh schnitzel coleslaw and cheese sandwich — Chicken thigh schnitzel coleslaw and cheese sandwich

I felt well enough on Sunday to go for a walk around Lake Ginninderra

But for breakfast I had some melted cheese on toast

Gary Lum Melted cheese on toast — Melted cheese on toast

Gary Lum Lake Ginninderra — Lake Ginninderra

Gary Lum Cows on Lake Ginninderra — Cows on Lake Ginninderra

Gary Lum Man in the lake — Man in the lake

For lunch after I did my ironing and watched an episode of Star Trek TNG I made myself a Pialligo Estate streaky bacon cheeseburger

Gary Lum Pialligo Estate streaky bacon cheeseburger — Pialligo Estate streaky bacon cheeseburger

For dinner on Sunday I slowly roasted some blade beef with some quinoa and vegetables. I had enough left over for two more meals.

Gary Lum Slowly roasted blade beef with quinoa, carrot and onion — Slowly roasted blade beef with quinoa, carrot and onion

The meat just fell apart as I pressed down with my knife.

How often do you need a weekend recovery?

Monday link love

It’s been awhile since I’ve done this properly. Each Monday the members of the Canberra Food Bloggers Facebook group share blog posts. Today here is a selection of those shared.

Rose | Enlighten 2016 – Culture and Creativity Illuminate Canberra | http://www.travelandbeyond.org/2016/03/06/enlighten-2016/
Kirsty | Chicken Pizza Scrolls | http://makeitbakeitsnapit.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/chicken-pizza-scrolls.html
Elissa | Green tea and red bean cream layer cake | http://fivebeansfood.com/2016/03/05/green-tea-and-red-bean-cream-layer-cake/
Caiti | Night Noodle Markets, Enlighten, 2016 | http://plantfuelledchaos.com/2016/03/06/night-noodle-markets-enlighten-2016/
Liz | Rice pudding with orange blossom, rose water, and scented geranium | http://www.bizzylizzysgoodthings.com/blog/rice-pudding-with-orange-blossom-rose-water-and-scented-geranium
Bec | Sweet potato, rocket and feta salad with walnut and black olive | http://insearchofgoldenpudding.com/2016/03/05/sweet-potato-rocket-and-feta-salad/
Kaet | Enlighten noodle market: Miss Van’s street food | http://www.sofrank.com.au/eats/miss-vans-street-food/
Lisa | Our Carnival Legend Cruise – The Details | http://bakebikeblog.com/2016/03/our-carnival-legend-cruise-highlights.html/
Christine | Superfoods for kids Blueberry icy poles | http://www.foodwinetravel.com.au/food/recipes/savoury-dishes/superfoods-for-kids-blueberry-icy-poles/

Yummy Lummy cauliflower soup with Pialligo bacon and gorgonzola

Posted 2014-07-02 by Gary

Tonight I got home a little early and made cauliflower soup

It’s been quite cold over the last week so what could be better than some home made soup with enough left over for lunch the next day.

Yummy Lummy cauliflower soup with Pialligo bacon and gorgonzola

Recipe Type: A simple comforting soup

Cuisine: Australian

Author: Gary Lum

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: 30 mins

Total time: 45 mins

Serves: 1

This is a dead easy way to cook cauliflower soup

Ingredients

Cauliflower
Pepper
Chicken stock
White wine
Bacon
Spring onion
Grapeseed oil
Mushrooms
Gorgonzola cheese
Smoked cheddar cheese
Parsley
Curry powder
Pouring cream

Instructions

Prepare your ingredients by cutting the bacon into thin strips, slice the spring onion, slice the mushrooms, chop the parsley, break up the cauliflower and crumble the Gorgonzola and smoked cheddar cheeses
Sautée the bacon and spring onion in a little grapeseed oil in a stainless steel saucepan
Make sure you get it nice and browned off
Add the mushrooms and soften with the heat
Deglase with a good splash of white wine and cook off the alcohol
Add the curry powder
Add the cauliflower florettes and then add a little boiling water and chicken stock
Simmer for 20 minutes and make sure the cauliflower is softened so you can mash it with a spoon
Drain off most of the water
Blend with a stick blender and add pouring cream
Reheat to bubbling
Take off the heat and add the cheeses
Aliquot some into a microwave sippy cup for lunch and put in the refrigerator
Pour the rest into a big bowl
Garnish with some extra parsley
Capture an image (I used a Nikon D5300 and a Tamron 90 mm Macro lens at 1/200 seconds f/5.6 and ISO 100)
Enjoy the soup
Wash the dishes
Write the recipe and blog about it
Share on various social media platforms like twitter and facebook
Hopefully people will like the recipe and write a nice comment

Notes

This is a delicious soup. Please try it.

Happy hump day dinner. Cauliflower soup with Pialligo Farm bacon. — Bacon, spring onion, mushrooms, and parsley

What I ate and did this weekend

Posted 2015-08-23 by Gary

I’ve had a good weekend. I’ve been doing a two day learning course on Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop. I’ve been using Lightroom for a couple of years but I know very little about Photoshop. It was a really good experience. The weekend was arranged by the Canberra School of Photography and the teacher was David Harradine. I’d happily recommend courses by Irene Lorbergs at CSP and David from whack.com.au

I’ve also eaten well this weekend mind you at the course I ate nut muesli bars, potato chips and diet coke.

Check out this gallery for some of what I ate and some stuff I learnt about layers and masks in Photoshop.

Strawberry sundae at The Ekka | I learnt to make a copy layer, select the ice cream and reduce the saturation.

Saturday breakfast. Fried egg on a salmon rissole with coffee. This was tasty.

Saturday dinner. Chicken and cabbage congee. I made this in the slow cooker. I nearly went with vegetarian congee.

Nestlé condensed milk at Coles for my coffee

Sunday breakfast. Bacon, egg and avocado roll at The Cupping Room. The bacon is from Pialligo farm. Best bacon in Australia.

Sunday dinner. Baked salmon and avocado. Sans salmon.

If you want to see the photographs as a gallery check out Google Photos. Click on one image to see it full size. To see the EXIF data (including a map if the photograph was geotagged) click on the information (i) icon in the top right corner. You can navigate through the gallery using the arrow keys or by swiping if you’re using a tablet or smartphone.

What did you get up to this weekend? What did you eat this weekend?

BrodDogs in Belconnen @BrodBurger Thanks @In_The_Taratory

Posted 2014-07-19 by Gary

Hardly low carbohydrate but you can’t eat a dog without a bun

Update friends

I have now enjoyed a Brodburger. Check out http://bit.ly/Brodburger

Brodburger is a like an institution in Canberra and they’ve opened another food truck this time specialising in hot dogs.

I went for a walk earlier this morning and deviated from the normal path by seeking out the BrodDogs food truck in one of the car parks of the Belconnen Westfield shopping centre. Tara had given everyone the heads up on Twitter

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Brod Dogs @brodburger is BACK this Friday from 11am at #Belco Westfield! Will you be heading there this w/end? http://t.co/sslRSFByfL #cbr

— In The Taratory (@In_The_Taratory) July 15, 2014

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It wasn’t hard to find and the first thing I did was create a presence for it on Foursquare 🙂

It’s a bright red truck 🙂

I wanted Kransky. I like pork.

Mmm…pork Kransky sausage with lots of sauerkraut. Sorry about the harsh shadows.

I got it home quickly for a proper photograph. It tasted good. Next time I’ll go for a Brod Dog.

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Saturday sleep in breakfast. Pialligo farm bacon and egg with avocado and mushrooms plus smoked cheddar cheese.

I thought I’d show you what I had for breakfast. Pialligo bacon for the win.

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