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Fantastic bacon from @pialligoestate and @CanberraEsntl

Posted by Gary

The breakfast of champions needs fantastic bacon and eggs

A few weeks ago Liz from http://www.bizzylizzysgoodthings.com/ sent a message around to a few Canberra bloggers asking if they’d like to try some bacon from Pialligo Farm. I don’t think it’s a secret that I like love bacon so I said yes. Liz sent me a voucher for 225 g of bacon and I went to pick it up from the Essential Ingredient in Kingston. The voucher has a value of $7. I also bought a second packet of bacon. 

I was listening to 1206 2CC and Mark Parton interviewed one of the artisans from Pialligo Farm when they won the best artisan bacon for Australia. I didn’t realise that supermarket bacon is pumped with water to plump it up and Australian supermarket commercial bacon isn’t as good as European cured bacon. I should say that I am happy to eat supermarket bacon. I buy about 250 g of streaky bacon from Coles every week. I’ve also eaten bacon in the USA, Canada and the UK. I love the Canadian bacon with maple syrup. I’ve also had beef bacon in Malaysia. I also had turkey ham there too. I’m not a fan of beef bacon or turkey ham. 

Pialligo Farm Traditional Dry Cured Bacon
Pialligo Farm Traditional Dry Cured Bacon | Sorry it’s a little blurry…I was excited about BACON 🙂 

So this morning I made bacon and eggs. I mean what better way to enjoy some good bacon. Oh my, this is good bacon. I’ll be enjoying it all. 

Hello Tuesday. A pinch and a punch for the first of the month. Pialligo Farm bacon and Coles fried eggs for breakfast.
Hello Tuesday. A pinch and a punch for the first of the month. Pialligo Farm bacon and Coles fried eggs for breakfast.

Now I’m thinking of bacon for tomorrow morning too. 

Wednesday morning update

Happy hump day everyone. Pialligo bacon, scrambled eggs and avocado for breakfast.
Happy hump day everyone. Pialligo bacon, scrambled eggs and avocado for breakfast.

I love eating my breakfast straight from the frying pan 🙂 

 
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Crab bacon sandwich

Posted by Gary

Last week I had my first crab bacon sandwich from Ted’s Bakery in Haleiwa.

I arrived back in Canberra today after the last day in Hawaii. I wanted dinner to reflect something really special from Hawaii and something I could do easily.

Sandwiches should be easy to make and this is a pretty simple meal that anyone can put together for themselves. 

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Fresh crab would have been better

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I love this Pialligo Farm artisan bacon. Simply the best. I’ve used this amazing bacon before. 

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A soft bread roll. I bought this from Coles.

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Lightly fried with some cream cheese. I love cream cheese. 

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Yum. The bacon on the cream cheese. I cooked the bacon in the oven at 200 °C for 15 minutes.

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I mixed the crab with some mayonnaise. I drained the crab for a while.

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I forgot the onion but I had iceberg lettuce and tomato.

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This crab bacon sandwich was just as good as the one I had at Ted’s Bakery last week. It was the duck’s guts.

Have you ever had a crab bacon sandwich?

 

How to make a bacon and egg pie

Posted by Gary

It looks pretty rough but this bacon and egg pie tasted good.

Before I went on my driving holiday (aka vanilla slice crawl) I shared a number of posts based on some sheets of puff pastry I bought. Check out the links below 🙂 

I had one sheet left which I thought I may as well use. 

Cheap Coles puff pastry
Cheap Coles puff pastry
How to make a bacon and egg pie
 
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: Gary Lum
Prep time:
Cook time:
Total time:
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Real butter
  • Puff pastry
  • Streaky bacon
  • Pialligo Farm lardons
  • Eggs
  • Pouring cream
  • Tasty Coon cheese slices
  • Fried onions
Instructions
  1. Cook the lardons in the oven at 200 °C for 15 minutes
  2. Butter a pyrex bowl
  3. Line the bowl with the puff pastry
  4. Add some streaky bacon to the walls
  5. Lay down a slice of cheese
  6. Add the cooked lardons to beaten eggs and cream
  7. Pour in the eggs, cream and lardons
  8. Lay on a slice of cheese
  9. Pull the pastry together and top with some pepper and fried onions
  10. Bake in an oven at 200 °C for 40 minutes
  11. Shoot a photograph
  12. Place on a plate
  13. Shoot a photograph
  14. Slice and splay open then shoot a photograph
  15. Eat the pie and feel very full
  16. Wash the dishes
  17. Write the recipe
  18. Blog (verb)
 
Real butter in a pyrex bowl
Real butter in a pyrex bowl
Streaky bacon from coles
Streaky bacon from coles
Eggs and cream
Eggs and cream
Tasty Coon cheese
Tasty Coon cheese
Pialligo farm lardons
Pialligo farm lardons
Bacon pie base
Bacon pie base
Bacon and egg pie with cheese before going into the oven
Bacon and egg pie with cheese before going into the oven
Bacon and egg pie with cheese straight from the oven
Bacon and egg pie with cheese straight from the oven
Bacon and egg pie with cheese on a plate
Bacon and egg pie with cheese on a plate
Bacon and egg pie with cheese cut and splayed open close up
Bacon and egg pie with cheese cut and splayed open close up

 

Chicken Canberra

Fish tacos

What’s long and thick and tasty?

Pork sausage and bacon roll

 
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Spence Butchery bacon

Posted by Gary

I finally got to get some Spence Butchery bacon

A month or so ago I blogged about some bacon from Pialligo Estate. Soon after a friend on Twitter, viz., @JohnMalnar suggested I try the Spence Butchery bacon. He reckons it’s the best. I said I would try it and yesterday I managed to get to Spence after my grocery shopping at Westfield Belconnen.  Rather than eating some straight away I went and shot some pelicans around Lake Ginninderra 🙂 

 

Andy's Spence Butchery 

The bacon looks and feels very good. The cut is substantial and the butcher is happy to cut it in a variety of thicknesses. I got what I thought was a relatively thin cut but even so the bacon is very weighty and dense. It smells really good raw. I asked for 200 g which worked out to two large rashers and cost me just under $5.

This morning I did a very basic bacon and eggs. rather than fry the bacon though I cooked it in my bench top oven.

Andy's Spence Butchery bacon with eggs and avocado Andy's Spence Butchery bacon with eggs and avocado Andy's Spence Butchery bacon with eggs and avocado

Sunday breakfast. Andy's Spence Butchery bacon with eggs and avocado.
Sunday breakfast. Andy’s Spence Butchery bacon with eggs and avocado.

The bacon was very nice. Certainly on a par with that of the Pialligo Estate bacon. I may well return to get more Spence Butchery bacon from time to time. I can also get Pialligo Estate bacon now from Westfield Belconnen.

After that breakfast I needed to go on a decent walk so I walked around Lake Ginninderra and shot some photographs. 

 
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Pelicans on Lake Ginninderra

Posted by Gary

 

Canberra put on a perfect day for a walk around Lake Ginninderra

Pelicans on Lake Ginninderra

I went for a walk this afternoon around Lake Ginninderra and shot a few images. The sky was blue with few clouds in the sky. There were lots of birds on the water and lots of people around the lake. These two were close to Yera beach. Not that I really regard anything on a lake as a beach. In my opinion, no surf, no beach. I am amazed when I see people swimming in these artificially made lakes. There are often cyanobacterial blooms and in Lake Burly Griffin the Escherichia coli counts can become dangerous to human health. Not surprising when you consider one source of water is the Queanbeyan water treatment plant. During heavy rain the water levels rise and break through without adequate treatment. 

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There are lots of pelicans on Lake Ginninderra and black swans too. I didn’t get a good shot of any swans. In 2009 I attended a meeting in New Mexico and there were people there who told me they’d never seen a black swan. They used a term ‘black swan event’ which means the likelihood of something happening is exceedingly rare. 

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This is a food blog so here is breakfast that Bron made this morning. It’s a 63 °C egg with Parmesan custard and tomato salsa. It was amazingly good. 

Sunday breakfast with Bron. 63 Â°C egg with parmesan custard and a Pialligo Estate bacon salsa.
Sunday breakfast with Bron. 63 Â°C egg with parmesan custard and a Pialligo Estate bacon salsa.