It’s been a good week in food. While my predictability remains high, there has been some variation. I’ve also been trying to vary how I share what I’ve been eating. I’m using Snapchat more especially video which I share via Instagram. I’ve also been producing a few more YouTube videos to share how I have prepared food. I set up a page for them.
Split pea and ham soup
Last Sunday I made split pea and ham soup again in an attempt to get it to look more green. Instead of carrot I used potato. It wasn’t much greener.
Salmon
I cooked salmon in paper one night and a quick pan fried version the following evening.
Chicken Maryland
On Wednesday night I made cheesy Chicken Maryland with leftover slow cooker oyster blade steak.
On Friday evening I wrapped my Chicken Maryland in Pialligo estate artisan bacon
Chicken schnitzel wrap
On Thursday at lunch time I had a chicken schnitzel with chips wrap with friends
McDonald’s Double Quarter Pounder with a large vanilla thick shake
Thursday was a long day. I started with a 6 am teleconference and ended with a lecture at the ANU Medical School from 5.30 to 7.15 pm. I stopped at McDonalds on the way back to the apartment.
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The Pialligo Estate Bacon’s Smokehouse burns down
It was a tragedy of epic proportions for residents of Canberra who love bacon. While it was not the complete loss of bacon altogether, it was the loss of some of the nicest bacon available locally in Canberra. Just in case you’re interested, the butcher at the Spence shops also makes lovely thick cut rashers of bacon. I’ve also enjoyed some home cured bacon from a former boss’s husband. Then of course you can always buy bacon from a supermarket where water is injected so that when you cook it, it turns into a soggy mess.
I normally buy my Pialligo Estate streaky bacon from “More than Meats” at Westfield Belconnen so when I was grocery shopping last week I snapped up the last two packets just in case there was a run on them and I may be caught short. I also snapped them in the Snapchat sense too (see what I did there).
After yesterday’s (Thursday 2016-07-28) day of eating out I thought I needed some home cooking tonight. I’d already done chicken protection of beef so it’s the chook’s turn to be protected tonight and there is no better way to protect meat than with streaky bacon.
What you need to make Chicken Maryland even more awesome
Chicken Maryland—1 piece (as big as you like it)
Cheese—1 or 2 slices of Coon cheese
Streaky bacon—as many rashers as you like
Red quinoa and brown rice—1 packet of Coles microwave red quinoa and brown rice
Frozen vegetables—whatever and as much as you like
How you cook this
Cook the red quinoa and brown rice in the microwave oven according the instructions on the packaging (90 seconds).
Put the rice in the bottom of a Pyrex container or onto a baking tray it’s really up to you and how crunchy you want your rice.
Lay a couple of slices of Coon cheese on the top of the Chicken Maryland.
Wrap the cheese to the chicken with rashers of streaky Pialligo Estate bacon.
Use your hands to massage the bacon onto the cheese and chicken so it sticks firmly.
Be loving and gentle as you massage the smoky fragrant bacon knowing your attention to detail will pay off as it cooks.
Lay this masterpiece over the rice so that the hot tasty juices of the chicken, cheese and bacon drip into the red quinoa and brown rice and add flavour to the lovely textures of the grains.
Place into an oven which has been preheated to 200 °C (400 °F) and cook for 20 minutes. At 20 minutes turn the heat down to 150 °C (300 °F) and cook for a further 40 minutes.
It’s important to thoroughly cook the chicken. Wrapping it and putting it over a layer of quinoa rice protects the underside from the oven heat so you risk under cooking it. As much as I love a good infection with Salmonella and Campylobacter I don’t want to get enteritis (diarrhoea) myself.
Once cooked, remove the meat and rice from the oven and allow it to rest.
Prepare your vegetables by steaming them or cooking them in the microwave.
Plate up the meal.
After you’ve plated up!
The arty farty photographers say you make a picture, the more basic will say shoot a photograph. Basically I shoot a photograph at this stage and then after I’ve eaten I make a picture in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop. So that must mean I’m basically arty farty!
Eat the meal while standing up at the kitchen counter because my dinner/work table is covered in computer stuff and I can’t use my couch because the so called leather is falling apart.
Wash the dishes
Write the recipe
Blog (verb)
Vlog (verb) because now this is fun and I’m enjoying the learning curve of video editing software. I’m using Final Cut Pro X.
How did it taste?
Bloody superb! How could it not with Australia’s best artisan bacon plus Australia’s best cheese all around Coles hormone-free and antibiotic-free chicken.
Feedback
Let me know what you think.
If you cook it please send me photographs and comments.
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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.
After some grocery shopping I needed my lunch taco which contained smoked salmon with a guacamole laden with chilli.
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.
Today is Canberra Day. Canberra Day is a public holiday held on the second Monday of March. The day is meant to celebrate the naming of Canberra as the Australian capital. The first day was on 12 March 1913 and the naming was officiated by Lady Denman the wife of the then Governor-General, Lord Denman.
It worked out well for me. My flight from Brisbane yesterday was delayed and I didn’t get back to my apartment until after sunset. I hadn’t done any washing, ironing, cleaning or grocery shopping. Canberra Day 2016 was like a Saturday. A day to catch up on work e-mail and do some housework.
I managed to get a walk in and some cooking.
Monday Link Love
Every Monday members of the Canberra Food Bloggers Facebook Group have an opportunity to share a post from their blogs. I like to list those that have been shared. Please check them out.
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.
For Saturday breakfast I made myself a Pialligo Estate streaky bacon and fried egg roll.
For lunch I felt like some raw onion and coleslaw with cream cheese
For dinner I made a chicken schnitzel 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
For lunch after I did my ironing and watched an episode of Star Trek TNG I made myself a 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.
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.
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