Yummy Lummy

The Yummy Lummy series of podcasts are recipe posts. These recipes are meals for one. They are meant to be quick and easy.

You’ll be able to find the recipes and the show notes at the food blog page.

I’ve started adding the podcast element to add a bit of variety and because it happens sometimes that I may forget to write something. I’m not the most diligent proofreader and I don’t always remember to say things. I hope between the written version and spoken version I get it right.

Podcasting

I find podcasting relaxing and I’ve really enjoyed doing my light-hearted medical podcast, viz., Medical Fun Facts. A show drops every Monday and Thursday and you can find it on iTues and Stitcher. Please check it out.

Social media

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How to make something quick and easy with Coles pulled pork

Posted by Gary
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How to make something quick and easy with Coles pulled pork

Normally making something with pulled pork requires hours of slow cooking. This Coles product relieves you of that time burden. Coupled with some vegetables from the refrigerator and some sauces you can make a quick and easy meal. I’ve used it before and enjoyed it.

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Packet of Coles pulled pork

Coles pulled pork

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Recipe

Spicy Coles pulled pork with sweet corn and cabbage

Coles pulled pork
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Spicy Coles pulled pork with sweet corn and cabbage
Prep Time
5 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
25 mins
 
Here's a quick and easy meal made with Coles pulled pork
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Australian
Servings: 2
Calories: 500 kcal
Author: Gary
Ingredients
  • Coles pulled pork
  • Cabbage
  • Sweet corn on the cob
  • Spring onions sliced
  • Parsley
  • Sriracha sauce
  • Black bean sauce
  • Whisky
  • Pouring cream
  • Sunflower seeds
  • Sesame seeds
  • Black pepper
  • Chilli flakes
Instructions
  1. Cook the Coles pulled pork in the microwave oven for five minutes and then pull your meat
  2. Cook the sweet corn in the microwave oven for five minutes and strip from the cob
  3. Cut the cabbage into a fine shred
  4. Sauté Coles the pulled pork in a frying pan
    Coles pulled pork
  5. Add the corn and cabbage and stir-fry
  6. Add everything else except for the cream and cook until all the liquid has reduced and the meat starts to catch the bottom of the pan
  7. Add the cream and cook through until it too is reduced
  8. Serve with a parsley garnish
Recipe Notes

I have no idea how many Calories in a serve. I use 500 Calories as my standard default number.

 

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Photographs

Pulled pork with sweet corn and cabbage in the frying pan

Coles pulled pork

The finished product

Coles pulled pork
Hot and spicy pulled pork with sweet corn and cabbage

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Questions and answers

Don’t you feel like a fraud cooking with ready-made products?

Not at all. Life’s too short. This product is convenient and it tastes fine. If it didn’t taste any good I wouldn’t use it.

Are you sponsored by Coles?

No, Yummy Lummy has no sponsors.

Do you want to be sponsored?

I wouldn’t mind being given products to review. I’d always declare of course if I was given something for free.

Cooking meals for one on Facebook

It’s been a while since I plugged the Facebook group Cooking meals for one. If you’d like to join please send me a message via Facebook and I’ll hook you up. We have a few regular members who contribute daily and it’s nice to see what other people cook and get some inspiration from their creations.

If you live alone or if you cook for maybe one other person, feel free to join our group.

How is my weight loss going?

You may have noticed over the last few posts that the food is low carb. I’m trying to lose some weight. I started at 87 kg and after about seven weeks, I’m down to 82 kg. My aim is to get well below 80 kg if I can. I’d love your encouragement to keep going.

Coles leftover pulled pork nachos

 

Crispy pork crackling may help smarten kids

Posted by Gary
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Crispy pork crackling may help smarten kids

Crispy pork crackling may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you are pregnant but this week it was salty goodness that had me thinking. I need to back up a bit to explain.

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Iodine deficiency

This post does have a recipe I promise you but it is really written to get any readers who may be pregnant or who are thinking about having children to be very aware of the role of iodine in the intellectual development of children. The role of iodine is important from the time of conception when a zygote forms and an embryo implants, through the gestation and then in the early life as a baby and infant.

This post isn’t a physiology lesson but I’d appreciate if you look up the role of iodine and perhaps visit my other blog where I describe a lecture I attended last week on iodine deficiency and the ramifications for the intellectual development of young Australians. The bottom line is that iodine supplementation during pregnancy is something to seriously consider.

Iodised salt

Sources of iodine include dairy products (albeit not as much as previously [see my other blog about that]), bread (because most bread in Australia is made with iodised salt), and iodised salt.

Obviously, too much salt is a problem for heart health, but if you need to add salt, use iodised salt and avoid fancy new age crap like seas salt and rock salt that offer no additional health benefits and may, in fact, be noxious to your health. Iodised table and cooking salt are also usually cheaper.

Saxa iodised table salt

This is not an advertisement for the Saxa brand

crispy pork crackling iodised salt

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Recipe

Crispy pork crackling

crispy pork crackling iodised salt
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Crispy pork crackling
Prep Time
5 mins
Cook Time
1 hr
Total Time
1 hr 5 mins
 
This is a never fail recipe for getting crispy crunchy pork crackling.
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Australian
Servings: 1
Calories: 500 kcal
Author: Gary
Ingredients
  • Pork rashers
  • Iodised salt
  • Chilli flakes
  • Sesame seeds
Instructions
  1. Cut the skin off each rasher and lay the skin on some baking paper on a thin oven tray.
  2. Sprinkle liberally with iodised table salt
    crispy pork crackling iodised salt
  3. Place into an oven at 200 °C/400 °F for one hour
  4. Place the skinless rashers into a frying pan lined with baking paper
  5. Sprinkle on the meat some sesame seeds and chilli flakes
  6. Place into an oven at 200 °C/400 °F for one hour
  7. When cooked, pull out the rasher meat and place onto absorbent paper and allow to cool a little. Do the same for the crackling too.
  8. Cut the rashers into small bite-sized chunks
  9. Serve on a plate with the crackling
  10. Eat with chopsticks and serve with a dipping sauce. Rick and Morty's Sichuan Teriyaki dipping sauce would work a charm here.
Recipe Notes

You may want to eat this with a cup of tea. It's really quite fatty.

Please note I never check the energy values. I use 500 Calories as my default. 

 

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The finished product

Crispy pork crackling. This would go well with my Rick and Morty Sichuan Dipping Sauce.

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Crackling and pork

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Questions and answers

What sort of salt do you normally buy?

I usually buy iodised table salt. I have also bought sea salt and rock salt. I reckon the only good use for rock salt is when making something like salted caramel when you want a concentrated hit of salt surrounded by sweetness.

What do you think of Himalayan rock salt?

After listening to Prof. Eastman the other night I’ll never buy it again. He reckons the murky colour is due to impurities like heavy metals which may be noxious to human health. I’ll probably also avoid Murray River salt too for the same reason. I mean have to see the crap in the Murray River.

Are you going to tell your daughters to supplement with iodine when they become pregnant?

Of course, I want bright grandchildren, not idiots.

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Podcasting

I’m thinking of starting a cooking podcast. I’m happy to receive suggestions.

 

 

Pork red curry

Posted by Gary
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Pork red curry
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OMG my taste buds came alive with this pork red curry

I have no idea what the traditional way to make a pork red curry. I made this meal for one, the way I thought it would taste best. The best way I know how to cook pork rashers is to put them into a hot oven for an hour and render out as much fat as possible.

 

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By subscribing you’ll receive a personalised e-mail from me and from time to time, apart from the blog post I’ll share something new, like my ideas for a cook book sometime this year.

Here’s what you need to make this pork red curry

  • One small tray of pork rashers
  • Three tablespoons of Thai red curry paste
  • One teaspoon of chopped jalapeño peppers
  • Two teaspoons of chopped red chillies
  • The zest from one lemon
  • Juice from half a lemon
  • A small tin of coconut cream
  • About a handful of sugar snap peas
  • Half a red onion
  • Six cherry tomatoes
  • Enough Udon noodles for one person (this means you can choose to eat big or small)

Here’s how to put it altogether

  1. Put the pork rashers into a small nonstick frying pan and put that into a hot (200 °C/400 °F) for one hour. When the hour is up place the cooked rashers onto absorbent paper and allow them to cool to room temperature. Cut the rashers across the grain into one centimetre width strips and place these into a bowl.
  2. Cook the noodles in boiling water. Halve the time recommended, you only want them soft, not cooked through. Drain them thoroughly. Toss them so they do not stick.
  3. Heat up a wok and add some high boiling point cooking oil. I used avocado oil.
  4. When the wok starts to smoke add the sliced onion, the sugar snap peas and tomatoes. Once these vegetables begin to soften add the drained noodles.
  5. Move everything around the wok quickly and add the Thai red curry paste. I don’t think it matters what sort of paste you use. I just buy the cheapest I can find. Of course, you could make your own but life’s too short for that. I then add the pork. 
  6. Once the curry paste has coated everything add a dash of water and stir while it boils away. At this stage, throw in the chillies and jalapeño peppers.
  7. Squeeze in the juice from half a lemon.
  8. Add the tin of coconut cream and simmer until it reduces to a thick liquid.
  9. Transfer to a bowl and garnish with lemon zest.

How did it taste?

Roast belly pork red curry with noodles, tomatoes, sugar snap peas and lemon zest Gary Lum
Roast belly pork red curry with noodles, tomatoes, sugar snap peas and lemon zest

OMG, this was really nice. I’m sure I could have made it better with some authentic herbs and other ingredients, but I really liked this.

If you live alone and just want something you can cook for yourself, here’s a good one.  

Final thoughts

If you try this please let me know how you go.

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