Beef

What I ate this week

Posted by Gary

Monday lunch was leftover slowly cooked beef and vegetables including Brussels sprouts and broccoli. How do you pronounce broccoli?

Slow cooker chuck casserole steak and speck with Brussels sprouts and broccoli
Slow cooker chuck casserole steak and speck with Brussels sprouts and broccoli

Monday evening dinner was baked salmon with sugar snap peas, beans, broccoli and some Buderim ginger marmalade.

Baked salmon with broccoli, beans, sugar snap peas and ginger marmalade
Baked salmon with broccoli, beans, sugar snap peas and ginger marmalade

Tuesday lunch was leftover slowly roast beef with vegetables.

Leftover slow cooker beef and vegetables
Leftover slow cooker beef and vegetables

Tuesday evening dinner was a chicken Maryland with Brussels sprouts and avocado.

Chicken Maryland with Brussels sprouts and avocado
Chicken Maryland with Brussels sprouts and avocado

On Wednesday I was tempted by the chocolate orange Queensland nut cheesecake in the display at Urban Bean Espresso Bar.

Chocolate orange macadamia cheesecake
Chocolate orange macadamia cheesecake
Woden Wind Tunnel
Woden Wind Tunnel
Woden Wind Tunnel
Woden Wind Tunnel
Woden Wind Tunnel
Woden Wind Tunnel

 

Coffee from Urban Bean Espresso Bar.

Coffee and medical countermeasures New antimicrobials
Coffee and medical countermeasures New antimicrobials

Ginger cake with chocolate chips made by a work mate.

Ginger cake with chocolate chips
Ginger cake with chocolate chips

Wednesday lunch was leftover slowly cooked beef and vegetables including Brussels sprouts and broccoli.

Leftover slow cooker beef and vegetables
Leftover slow cooker beef and vegetables

Wednesday afternoon saw me give in to temptation and I had a piece of chocolate orange Queensland nut cheesecake.

Chocolate orange Queensland nut cheesecake
Chocolate orange Queensland nut cheesecake

On Wednesday night I went out and then watched the first State of Origin match for 2016.

Gary Lum self portrait

On Thursday I flew to Melbourne and visited a manufacturing company.

For breakfast I had raisin toast and coffee at the Canberra Airport.

Raisin toast and coffee
Raisin toast and coffee

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On the flight back to Canberra I had a green eggs and ham sandwich.

Green eggs and ham sandwich
Green eggs and ham sandwich

Because it was well after my normal dinner time I got takeaway. I chose a piece of battered fish with potato scallops on a bread roll.

Battered fish and potato scallop roll with cream cheese
Battered fish and potato scallop roll with cream cheese

On Friday I didn’t go to the hospital, instead I participated in an emergency management exercise.

Friday dinner was a piece of chicken Maryland with a load of cheese cooked with spring onions and chives.

Cheesy Chicken Maryland
Cheesy Chicken Maryland
Cheesy chicken Maryland with avocado, spring onions and chives
Cheesy chicken Maryland with avocado, spring onions and chives

For Saturday I had scrambled eggs for breakfast.

Cheesy scrambled eggs
Cheesy scrambled eggs
Everbean Espresso Cake display
Everbean Espresso Cake display

Saturday lunch was a cottage pie with vegetables.

Cottage pie and vegetables
Cottage pie and vegetables

Monday link love

Posted by Gary

Hi there. It’s been a busy day. I don’t have much to post but since it’s Monday I do want to share some Canberra Food Blogger Facebook Group links

Thanks for visiting. Please check out the rest of Yummy Lummy. I’d love it if you shared this site with your friends.

Here’s the list

Each of these posts is worth reading. The recipes are delicious and Liz’s take on onions really interesting. Serina has great advice on frugal cleaning of woolen products and Elissa made me think about bulk food shopping.

Here are some food photographs and a short video of my slow cooker beef.

Slow cooker chuck casserole steak and speck with Brussels sprouts and broccoli
Slow cooker chuck casserole steak and speck with Brussels sprouts and broccoli
Baked salmon with broccoli, beans, sugar snap peas and ginger marmalade
Baked salmon with broccoli, beans, sugar snap peas and ginger marmalade

Slowly oven roasted rump of beef with quinoa rice

Posted by Gary

Slowly oven roasted rump of beef with quinoa rice along with potato, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and onion served with horseradish. It sounds like a mouthful but oh what a delicious mouthful.

Last night I slowly roasted a butterflied leg of lamb and tonight I wanted some beef. The good thing is all the leftovers will be eaten for lunches at work. I may spend a lot of money on meat but I like to make it last.

Slowly oven roasted rump of beef with quinoa rice
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: [url href=”http://garylum.me” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”]Gary Lum[/url]
Prep time:
Cook time:
Total time:
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Lump of rump
  • Potato
  • Cauliflower
  • Onion
  • Brussels sprouts
  • White quinoa
  • Red quinoa
  • Arborio rice
  • Red wine
Instructions
  1. In a casserole add the vegetables, quinoa and rice
  2. Add a splash of red wine
  3. Place the meat on top and cook for 30 minutes with the lid off in a hot oven 220 °C
  4. Place the lid on the casserole and cook for 150 minutes at 150 °C
  5. The quinoa and rice will absorb all the fat off the beef and be creamy rich
  6. Plate up and aliquot leftovers into containers for lunches
  7. Shoot a photograph
  8. Eat the meal
  9. Write the recipe
  10. Wash the dishes
  11. Blog (verb)
Cauliflower, Onion, Potato, Spring onion, Beef in a casserole
Cauliflower, Onion, Potato, Spring onion, Beef in a casserole
Cauliflower, Onion, Potato, Spring onion, Beef in a casserole
Cauliflower, Onion, Potato, Spring onion, Beef in a casserole
Cauliflower, Onion, Potato, Spring onion, Beef in a casserole
Cauliflower, Onion, Potato, Spring onion, Beef in a casserole
Slowly oven roasted rump of beef with potato, cauliflower, onion, Brussels sprouts, quinoa and rice served with horseradish
Slowly oven roasted rump of beef with potato, cauliflower, onion, Brussels sprouts, quinoa and rice served with horseradish
Slowly oven roasted rump of beef with potato, cauliflower, onion, Brussels sprouts, quinoa and rice served with horseradish
Slowly oven roasted rump of beef with potato, cauliflower, onion, Brussels sprouts, quinoa and rice served with horseradish

This morning I went for a walk around Lake Ginninderra and then had breakfast at Local Press Cafe in Kingston.

Sunrise over Lake Ginninderra
Sunrise over Lake Ginninderra
Autumn leaves and clouds on Lake Ginninderra
Autumn leaves and clouds on Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra HDR
Lake Ginninderra HDR
Lake Ginninderra HDR
Lake Ginninderra HDR
Wild mushrooms and poached egg on sourdough at Local Press, Kingston, Canberra
Wild mushrooms and poached egg on sourdough at Local Press, Kingston, Canberra

Slow cooked beef, speck and hot and spicy spam

Posted by Gary
Slow cooked beef, speck and spam with carrot, celery, onion, sugar snap peas, peas, and broccoli
Slow cooked beef, speck and spam with carrot, celery, onion, sugar snap peas, peas, and broccoli

Slow cooked beef, speck and hot and spicy spam is not something you will find in a lot of cook books. As far as I can see it’s not in my Spam cookbook.

Hawaii Spam Cookbook
Hawaii Spam Cookbook

This weekend I got the slow cooker out and loaded it with some ‘casserole’ beef, speck and some leftover hot and spicy spam along with with celery, carrot and onion. I did this video to practice some video editing in Adobe Photoshop.

Slow cooked beef, speck and hot and spicy spam
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: [url href=”http://garylum.me” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”]Gary Lum[/url]
Prep time:
Cook time:
Total time:
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Casserole beef from Coles
  • Speck from Coles delicatessen
  • Spam (hot and spicy)
  • Celery (3 stalks) finely chopped
  • Carrot (1) diced
  • Onion (½) diced
  • Red wine (1 cup)
  • Beef stock (1 litre)
  • Sugar snap peas
  • Frozen peas
  • Broccoli
  • Dried mixed herbs
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Ginger marmalade (1 tablespoon)
  • Plain flour
Instructions
  1. Dice the vegetables (onions, carrot and celery) and meat
  2. Coat the meat in flour
  3. Brown off the meat in some olive oil in a frying pan and then soften the vegetables (onions, carrot and celery) in the frying pan.
  4. Add everything that has been browned or softened to the slow cooker
  5. Deglase the frying pan with a cup of red wine and pour the wine into the slow cooker
  6. Add the stock, ginger marmalade, some salt and pepper plus the dried herbs.
  7. Turn on the slow cooker and cook for 6 hours
  8. Drain the solids and keep the liquid for reducing to a sauce
  9. Aliquot into microwave safe containers for lunch at work
  10. Steam some sugar snap peas, peas and broccoli
  11. Plate up the meal
  12. Shoot a photograph
  13. Eat the meal
  14. Wash the dishes
  15. Write the recipe
  16. Blog (Verb)

I’m trying to teach myself some Adobe Photoshop skills. I video recorded some of my preparation and edited it in Photoshop. You can watch it here. It’s not very interesting and displays that I need to improve my knife skills. I also need to learn more about transitions and making a logo and adding in audio. Oh well, I will try to get better.

Monday link love

These links are from today’s shared posts on the Canberra Food Blogger’s Facebook Group.

I hope you’ve had a great Monday

This is a photograph I shot yesterday. I thought I’d share it because I like it.

Lake Ginninderra reflections
Lake Ginninderra reflections

Good Friday French toast hot cross bun

Posted by Gary
Gary Lum Good Friday hot cross bun with maple streaky bacon
Good Friday hot cross bun with maple streaky bacon

Have you ever had a Good Friday French toast hot cross bun?

I made my French toast hot cross bun better with maple bacon

Last night I went to XO Restaurant at Narrabundah and enjoyed a meal with Bron. We had Shantung Baos, XO FC Wings, Sexy Squid, Char Siu, Crispy Lamb Ribs and XO Hot Cross Bao. The char siu was a revelation. One of the owner chefs came and had a chat with us and explained how he was inspired to make the char siu after trying a Malaysian version. XO cooks the pork for many hours by sous vides and then when a ticket arrives blast the pork with a blowtorch and then it hits a hot oven and then a little more charring. I am happy to say it’s the most tender and flavourful char siu I have ever eaten. Just for that dish the meal was worth it. The evening meal was topped off with an Easter inspired dessert, viz., Hot cross bao. For the best description check out the XO Facebook page

I only shot one photograph last night and it was the hot cross bao.

XO Restaurant's hot cross bao! Fresh bao made in house with Sichuan chilli raspberry jam and salted praline peanut paste ice cream drizzled with dark chocolate. They're vegan and dairy free!
XO Restaurant’s hot cross bao! Fresh bao made in house with Sichuan chilli raspberry jam and salted praline peanut paste ice cream drizzled with dark chocolate. They’re vegan and dairy free!

So back to today.

I started with the French toast hot cross bun. I just used hot cross buns from Coles and soaked one in some egg, cream, brown sugar and vanilla extract. I then fried it off in some butter. The streaky bacon was cooked in my benchtop oven with some Canadian maple syrup poured over each rasher.

Gary Lum Good Friday hot cross bun with maple streaky bacon and coffee
Good Friday hot cross bun with maple streaky bacon and coffee

This afternoon I was invited to afternoon tea. Peter and Li Peng are friends who have featured in Yummy Lummy many times. Li Peng has just started a new business hand making chocolate.

The label is known as Jasper and Myrtle Chocolates. Li Peng is currently working on a website but she has a Facebook page and an Instagram account which I hope Yummy Lummy readers might consider following.

Jasper and Myrtle Handmade Chocolate being made
Jasper and Myrtle Handmade Chocolate being made

Peter made hot cross buns which were really good.

I had 3 fresh hot cross bun with butter
I had 3 fresh hot cross bun with butter

I highly recommend Li Peng’s Jasper and Myrtle chocolates

Jasper and Myrtle Handmade Chocolate
Jasper and Myrtle Handmade Chocolate

Check out these links for more on Jasper and Myrtle Chocolates

http://www.handmadecanberra.com.au/easter-treats-handmade-shop/

http://www.handmadecanberra.com.au/blog/

http://hercanberra.com.au/cpcity/five-new-handmade-market-highlights/

The Foodie’s Paradise

New at the March Market

So I ended Good Friday 2016 watching the Brisbane Broncos play the North Queensland Cowboys and ate some slowly roasted beef and coleslaw. The Broncos defeated the Cowboys in a really tight game.

Good Friday slowly roasted beef with beetroot coleslaw
Good Friday slowly roasted beef with beetroot coleslaw

I hope you had a good Good Friday. What did you get up to?