Super Saturday salmon sandwiches

Posted by Gary

Today I ended up have salmon sandwiches for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Who would have thought I’d ever do that?

I basically repeated breakfast and lunch but changed the carbohydrate from a quinoa pane di casa to a poppy seed bagel. For dinner I had the last quinoa pane di casa and cooked some salmon. All three salmon sandwiches were essentially the same with minor variations. 

Tomorrow is Sunday. Will there be salmon on Sunday?

Smoked salmon, capers, and cream cheese on quinoa and whole grain pane di casa | salmon sandwiches
Breakfast | Smoked salmon, capers, and cream cheese on quinoa and whole grain pane di casa

This was a nice light breakfast and it had quinoa 

Smoked salmon, dill, capers, and cream cheese on a bagel | salmon sandwiches
Lunch | Smoked salmon, dill, capers, and cream cheese on a bagel

I went and bought some dill especially today after breakfast because salmon needs dill.

Atlantic salmon, dill, capers, and cream cheese on quinoa and whole grain pane di casa with potato gems | salmon sandwiches
Dinner | Atlantic salmon, dill, capers, and cream cheese on quinoa and whole grain pane di casa with potato gems

The big difference for dinner was adding the potato gems. I love potato gems.

 

This afternoon I went for a walk around Lake Ginninderra and shot some photographs.

Cloud porn over Lake Ginninderra
Cloud porn over Lake Ginninderra
Big yellow tree on Lake Ginninderra
Big yellow tree on Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra

Do you like salmon sandwiches? What do you put on them?

Where’s the quinoa in this delicious chicken roll?

Posted by Gary

TGIF people and it’s Friday night with the footy about to start and a weekend to enjoy. What could be better than a quick and easy delicious chicken roll? The perfect food to eat while watching the footy. Lets Go Broncos!

So where’s the quinoa? Well it’s in the wholemeal pane di casa!

Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter and a layer of roquette topped with roast chicken and stuffing and a line of mustard, my delicious chicken roll
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter and a layer of roquette topped with roast chicken and stuffing and a line of mustard, my delicious chicken roll
Where’s the quinoa in this delicious chicken roll?
 
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: Gary Lum
Prep time:
Total time:
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Roast chicken
  • Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa
  • Butter
  • Baby roquette
  • Dijon mustard
Instructions
  1. Cut the bread rolls with a nice long longitudinal slit
  2. Add lashings of butter
  3. Add the roquette
  4. Add the shredded chicken and stuffing and best of all the skin
  5. Add a line of dijon mustard and some pepper
 

 

Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter and a layer of roquette
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter and a layer of roquette
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter and a layer of roquette topped with roast chicken and stuffing
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter and a layer of roquette topped with roast chicken and stuffing
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter and a layer of roquette topped with roast chicken and stuffing and a line of mustard
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter and a layer of roquette topped with roast chicken and stuffing and a line of mustard

What could be simpler? How do you make a delicious chicken roll?

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A weekend eating adventure in Brisbane

Posted by Gary

Some might say every weekend is an eating adventure for me

I spent the weekend in Brisbane to visit my parents and daughters. This week Miss13 becomes Miss14!

Saturday morning we enjoyed breakfast at Groove Train Chermside. I enjoyed the granola.

Granola at Groove Train Chermside
Granola at Groove Train Chermside
Granola at Groove Train Chermside
Granola at Groove Train Chermside

For lunch Miss19 and I made Mum and Dad a simple salad for lunch.

I taught Miss19 how to extract Pomegranate arils

Pomegranate arils for lunch
Pomegranate arils for lunch

I love coleslaw

Coleslaw preparation
Coleslaw preparation

The final product. Gee I love streaky bacon and avocado in a salad.

Coleslaw with avocado, pomegranate arils and streaky bacon
Coleslaw with avocado, pomegranate arils and streaky bacon

For dinner we celebrated soon to be Miss14’s birthday at Hog’s breath cafe. I had a lite cut prime rib with avocado and a side of calamari to enjoy a surf and turf or reef and beef meal 

Hog's Breath Cafe Aspley with Lite cut prime rib and salt and pepper calamari (reef and beef, surf and turf) with avocado plus Béarnaise sauce on the avocado and cheese sauce on the vegetables. Served with curly fries.
Hog’s Breath Cafe Aspley with Lite cut prime rib and salt and pepper calamari (reef and beef, surf and turf) with avocado plus Béarnaise sauce on the avocado and cheese sauce on the vegetables. Served with curly fries.

After the main meal we came home and enjoyed Mum’s beetroot chocolate cake. Yes this was made with a large tin of beetroot. No taste of vinegar or beetroot at all. 

Beetroot chocolate cake for soon to be Miss14
Beetroot chocolate cake for soon to be Miss14
Beetroot chocolate cake and ice cream for soon to be Miss14
Beetroot chocolate cake and ice cream for soon to be Miss14

For Sunday breakfast we went to Cafe 63 Wilston and I had fruit. Who would believe it, I ate fruit while my daughters has poached and fried eggs and waffles and similar 

F1 fruit salad at Cafe 63 Wilston
F1 fruit salad at Cafe 63 Wilston

Please say hello to the snake 

Snake
Snake

 

Yatala Pies vanilla slice fail

Posted by Gary

I’ve spent the weekend in Brisbane visiting Miss13, Miss17 and my parents. We have some activities planned and I’ve taken Monday as recreation leave so we could fit things in. I’m writing a series of short posts about the food we ate on this visit. 

 

It’s Sunday morning and we’re on our way to the Gold Coast for the day. Part of the journey is breakfast at Yatala Pies which is a bit of an institution in God’s own (i.e., Queensland). 

Yatala Pies on Urbanspoon

 

Miss13 and Miss17 had no qualms about pastry for breakfast. We were on the road at 7.30 and by the time we got there a little after 8 we were all pretty hungry. 

Miss13 asked for a caramel tart sans cream, Miss17 went for a vanilla slice as did I. I also asked for a jam and cream doughnut that we could share.

There were no vanilla slices on the counter when we arrived and when the lady went out the back to investigate if they had any my heart sank when she emerged with two slices that looked like they’d been in the cold room.

Long time readers will know of my devotion to the good old Aussie vanilla slice which Mexicans (aka Victorians) call snot blocks. If you want to know what I reckon makes a good vanilla slice here is my review. It’s become such a thing I regularly have conversations with a couple of very senior colleagues at work. So much so we send text messages to one another along with photographs when we come across a new vanilla slice we haven’t tried.

This vanilla slice had multiple problems. The icing was too thick and the pastry was too stiff. The custard while tasting nice was also a little gelatinous. 

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The jam and cream doughnut on the other hand was delicious. It was light and fluffy and not at all doughy. The cream wasn’t too sweet and the jam wasn’t either. Miss17 thought a little more jam would have made it just a little better. 

Please don’t get me wrong, Yatala Pies make great hot pies. I’ve enjoyed them over the years and they’re consistently good. My advice though is steer clear of the vanilla slice and have a jam and cream doughnut instead. 

Have you had a Yatala Pie? What did you think?

Groove Train Chermside @GrooveTrainAU

Posted by Gary

I’ve spent the weekend in Brisbane visiting Miss13, Miss17 and my parents. We have some activities planned and I’ve taken Monday as recreation leave so we could fit things in. I’m writing a series of short posts about the food we ate on this visit. 

To get things started we needed a good breakfast on Saturday. Miss13, Miss17 and I headed to Groove Train at Chermside.

 
The Groove Train on Urbanspoon

Miss13 asked for French toast, Miss17 asked for the Spanish eggs and I asked for corn fritters.

Miss13 also asked for a guava juice while Miss17 wanted a chai latte and I needed a long black.

Corn fritters with poached eggs, smoked salmon and lime yoghurt SONY ILCE-7S with E 35mm F1.8 OSS at 35mm and f/4, 1/100sec, ISO 100
Corn fritters with poached eggs, smoked salmon and lime yoghurt SONY ILCE-7S with E 35mm F1.8 OSS at 35mm and f/4, 1/100sec, ISO 100

The corn fritters came with poached eggs with runny yolks, smoked salmon and lime yoghurt. The corn fritters at Groove Train are filling and full of flavour.

I’d happily recommend them to anyone who has a hearty appetite.

Do you have a favourite ‘local’ you visit for breakfast when you’re visiting family and friends?