A low carb cheeseburger can really only be low carb if it’s served without bread. Tonight my bread replacement to keep everything together are cabbage leaves. So does this mean the Chinese san choi bao is a low carb burger?
Dedicated to a brief dip below 80
Can I get there again?
This wasn’t the most elaborate burger, it didn’t have the essential ingredients of an Australian burger which included slices of beetroot and a ring of pineapple plus a fried egg and some bacon.
Suffice to say, this burger was mainly about putting some beef mince (ground meat) and cheese together on a hamburger bread roll.
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Fantastic. It was lovely and spicy and cheesy.
Do you like making your own burgers from mince meat (ground beef)? Let me know what you think.
Well it’s not really a question of bacon or salmon. Occasionally it can be bacon and salmon.
I came home early today with ManFlu which gave me an opportunity to focus on work e-mail and do some reading. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released a report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) on the potential causal relationship between the consumption of red meat and processed meat with neoplastic diseases. The paper in Lancet Oncology is available for free. The IARC paper’s authors reported that processed meat can cause bowel carcinoma and red meat probably causes bowel carcinoma. This doesn’t mean if you eat a tin of spam or eat a sausage you’ll develop bowel carcinoma nor does it mean you cannot enjoy a good steak or pork chop occasionally. In my mind if these are occasional treats I’m going to make sure I focus on quality rather than quantity.
What it does mean, and none of this is new information, is you shouldn’t eat bacon everyday but one or two rashers a week is probably okay. A small steak once a week is probably okay too. It also means we need to eat more fruit and vegetables.
What does it mean for me as a lover of red meat and SPAM? Well as I’ve written recently I’m taking my health a little more seriously especially after the faecal occult blood test gift from the government and my first colonoscopy which thankfully didn’t find a bowel carcinoma (yet). With an eye on blood biochemistry and bowel health I’ll still occasionally indulge in bacon and SPAM. After all Canberra boasts Australia’s best artisan bacon and my shelf of shame has three tins of SPAM after so much fun on the Hawaiian holiday adventure.
So tonight I just had salmon mainly because I felt unwell and just wanted something simple. Click on the photograph and you’ll see a short time-lapse video of me eating this bad boy.
Tonight I felt like making a burger for dinner. If only I had some tinned beetroot and pineapple. Oh well, this cheeseburger was pretty good just the same.
I’ve often avoided making my own and going to McDonald’s or Hungry Jacks for a cheeseburger but really they are so easy to make at home and much more enjoyable to eat.
In most hamburger joints the egg would not have a soft runny yolk and would probably be cooked easy over. I can’t help myself though, I love a soft runny sunny side up fried egg.
This morning I had avocado on toast for breakfast. I smash the avocado with a little olive oil and and some lime juice.
I had some salad for lunch. I like some light leaves, stuffed peppers, olives and smoked salmon.
Earlier in the week I shared a salmon wrap post and my good blogger friend John from the UK left a concerned comment about my recent quinoa love. I replied that I needed to break this vicious cycle that I’m in. You’d think I could do it cold turkey, but no, tonight I used quinoa again in an Angus beef quinoa cheeseburger.
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Hey John just so you know I didn’t have quinoa for lunch today 
