Breakfast

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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Breakfast at Silo Bakery Kingston

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Our first breakfast at Silo Bakery

It’s Saturday morning and we need breakfast. Bron suggested Silo Bakery and Cafe in Kingston. It also meant we could visit the Essential Ingredient too. 

The menu is pretty good as is the coffee 🙂 

Breakfast is served 7 am to 11.30 am

Orange juice, sunrise juice, vegetable or special juice of the day 6
Fresh bloody Mary 8
Bircher muesli, pear juice, almond milk and blueberries 9
Banana, goji berries, honey and labna with toasted raisin bread 9
Vegan breakfast 17
Nut and seed flatbread with tomato, rocket, avocado and cashew hummus
Scrambled eggs and truffle 18
Eggs florentine 17
Poached eggs on grilled crostini with spinach, parmesan and olive oil
Welsh rarebit, egg, bacon and spinach 17
Corned beef and sweet potato hash with a fried egg and mustard cream 16
Tartiflette with mushroom toast 17
Zoolbia with warm autumn fruits and yoghurt 13
Chilli jam, tomato and poached eggs 17
Gruyere omelette 14
Breakfast cheese selection 22
A selection of three mild cheeses with bread
Croissant or brioche with jam 4
Sourdough toast, raisin toast or baguette with jam 7
Ham and cheese croissant 8
All bread, pastries and jams are made at Silo.

 

Bron asked for the scrambled eggs and truffle and I asked for the corned beef hash. 

Scrambled eggs with truffles at Silo Bakery, Kingston
Scrambled eggs with truffles at Silo Bakery, Kingston

 

Scrambled eggs with truffles at Silo Bakery, Kingston
Scrambled eggs with truffles at Silo Bakery, Kingston

 

Saturday breakfast at Silo Bakery. Corned beef hash.
Saturday breakfast at Silo Bakery. Corned beef hash.

 

Saturday breakfast at Silo Bakery. Corned beef hash.
Saturday breakfast at Silo Bakery. Corned beef hash.

We were both pretty happy with our meals. The service is friendly and relatively quick. The place gets busy though so if you want a table get there early or be prepared to wait. If the wait is too long the good thing about Kingston is the number of restaurants open for breakfast so you won’t go hungry 😉  

 

 
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The Hearty Vegetarian breakfast at @GrooveTrainAU The Groove Train Chermside

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Occasionally I go meatless and the Hearty Vegetarian is fine sans meat

I took my daughters to the Groove Train in Chermside for breakfast. I had a huge day of food on Saturday at The Ekka and didn’t want anything too heavy. I thought the vegetarian option would be lighter.

Hearty vegetarian breakfast

When the server came out he assumed this was for Miss19 and he was surprised when I said it was for me. This breakfast was huge. It wasn’t light at all. The mushrooms were delicious. The boston beans were the yummiest I’ve had. The beans were rich, tasty and full of flavour. The eggs were perfectly poached with the yolk oozing over the hashed brown just the way I like it. Having a little fried onion was also great with the mushrooms. I’d happily eat this again. 

 

In addition to the Hearty Vegetarian we had bacon and eggs with hollandaise plus a breakfast burger.

Bacon and poached eggs with Hollandaise sauce Breakfast burger

If you’re in Brisbane and want a good breakfast, try The Groove Train. 

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I skipped lunch and had a nude burger for dinner

Nude burger with bacon and tomato and lettuce

 

Shirred eggs with bacon recipe

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Bron taught me how to make shirred eggs

I woke up this morning (a few times) and felt cold. I checked my iPhone and sure enough it was another subzero morning.

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Such a morning calls for comfort food.

Hello Saturday at –5 Â°C in Canberra. Breakfast is bacon and shirred eggs with smoked cheddar cheese.
Hello Saturday at –5 Â°C in Canberra. Breakfast is bacon and shirred eggs with smoked cheddar cheese.
Shirred eggs with bacon recipe
 
Recipe Type: Breakfast
Cuisine: Modern
Author: Gary Lum
Prep time:
Cook time:
Total time:
Serves: 1
A comforting breakfast for a cold day
Ingredients
  • Free range eggs
  • Bacon, preferably locally cured
  • Smoked cheddar cheese
  • Pouring cream
  • Butter
  • Pepper
Instructions
  1. Heat your bench top oven to 200 Â°C
  2. Rub butter in a small ceramic bowl
  3. Cut bacon into thin strips across the grain of the rasher
  4. Cook the bacon in a pile in the oven for 15 minutes
  5. Layer half of the bacon on the bottom of the dish
  6. Break the eggs over the bacon
  7. Put the rest of the bacon on top of the egg whites
  8. The the dish into the oven for 5 minutes
  9. Remove the dish from the oven
  10. Add some roughly grated cheese and a dash of the pouring cream
  11. Return to the oven for 3 minutes
  12. Remove from the oven
  13. Capture an image
  14. Eat the food while it’s still hot
  15. Marvel at the soft just set yolk and the feeling of cheesy bacon in your gob
  16. Clean everything up
  17. Write the recipe
  18. Blog about the experience
 
Notes
Cook this once and you won’t need the recipe
My benchtop oven toaster
My benchtop oven toaster

 

I wish I was here still

Sunrise over Darwin waterfront lagoon
Sunrise over Darwin waterfront lagoon

 

 
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Fantastic bacon from @pialligoestate and @CanberraEsntl

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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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