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Quinoa cooked in lamb fat

Posted by Gary

So tonight I cooked quinoa in lamb fat. I’ve cooked this superfood now in pork fat, chicken fat and with a nice piece of salmon which has a little fat. To complete all the major food groups (fish, poultry, lamb/goat, pork and beef) I have to cook quinoa in cow fat. That will happen but not yet.

I used a small roll of deboned lamb shoulder for dinner tonight. I also served the dish with chips or potato crisps for my English friends.

When I’ve visited the USA I’ve noticed that many places serve potato chips (crisps) with the evening meal. Not hot chips (fries for my US friends) but chips from a packet. Today I had one of those days. By the end I wanted to poke my eyes out. I ended up eating a couple of small bags of potato chips and as I was finishing them at my desk I thought I’d like some with dinner.

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Quinoa cooked in lamb fat
 
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: Gary Lum
Prep time:
Cook time:
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Lamb
  • Quinoa
  • Coleslaw
  • Avocado
  • Potato chips
Instructions
  1. Cook the lamb in a low oven with the quinoa in the baking tray with some water
  2. I cook the lamb at 150 °C for 45 minutes and let the meat rest for 15 minutes
  3. Once the meat is out of the oven lift the meat out and put it onto a plate to rest
  4. Spoon out the quinoa and mix it with an equal amount of coleslaw and add diced avocado
  5. Sadly the avocado was a Shepard which sucks, Shepard avocados are awful compared with Hass
  6. Plate up the coleslaw quinoa mix
  7. When the meat has rested untie it and then slice the meat and serve
  8. Add some potato chips
  9. Shoot a photograph
  10. Eat the meal
  11. Wash the dishes and put the rest of the meat in the refrigerator
  12. Write the recipe
  13. Blog (verb)
 

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So do you serve chips with your dinner meals? Do you like lamb fat cooking?

Lunch at Graze @ the factory

Posted by Gary

It was a great day for a drive in the country. Warm relatively humid weather. Not too much glare and not too much traffic. 

Junee is about two and a half hours drive from Canberra. Junee is known as the home of NSW and Australian rugby league player Laurie Daley and rugby league broadcaster Ray Warren. It’s also the home of a licorice and chocolate factory which in a former life was a flour mill.

The factory does tours and has a gift shop plus restaurant and cafe. We went looking in the gift shop and the theme was mainly kitchen appliances and gadgets plus Crocs® The cafe is aligned with the sales outlet for the licorice and chocolate. There are all sorts of flavours and shapes. They seem to do a big trade in freckles, frogs and boobs. Yes boobs, milky white boobs. And also milk chocolate boobs.

The restaurant has a nice big spacious feel and a country style menu with steak sandwiches, hamburgers, fish and chips, steak and some salads.

Bron chose a Junee lamb burger with red beans, guacamole and sour cream plus a granny smith cider. I chose a sirloin steak with a garden salad and chips. I asked for the steak to be cooked rare and to come with a peppercorn sauce.

Junee lamb burger Apple iPhone 5s with iPhone 5s back camera 4.15mm f/2.2 at 4mm and f/2.2, 1/30sec, ISO 100
Junee lamb burger Apple iPhone 5s with iPhone 5s back camera 4.15mm f/2.2 at 4mm and f/2.2, 1/30sec, ISO 100
Bron liked her burger. The meat was juicy, flavoursome and tender and the bun was nicely toasted and still soft. The guacamole and sour cream with red kidney beans worked really well together. The chips had a great flavour, but we’re a bit too soft for Bron’s liking. 
 
The cider was crisp, dry and wonderfully refreshing. Perfect for a warm 32 °C plus warm windy day looking out to the lovely shade of the vine encased outdoor dining area.
Sirloin steak with garden salad and chips Apple iPhone 6 with iPhone 6 Plus back camera 4.15mm f/2.2 at 4mm and f/2.2, 1/15sec, ISO 50
Sirloin steak with garden salad and chips Apple iPhone 6 with iPhone 6 Plus back camera 4.15mm f/2.2 at 4mm and f/2.2, 1/15sec, ISO 50

My steak was good. It was mostly rare with some areas a little more medium rare. The fat was mostly rendered but there was some gristle which tasted good but it was tough. The salad was lightly dressed so no splashing of vinegar and oil on my white shirt 🙂 The chips were tasty but soft. I also had a caramel thickshake which was pretty good. 

Junee Licorice and Chocolate factory white chocolate boobs NIKON D7100 with 90.0 mm f/2.8 at 90mm and f/8, 1/30sec, ISO 400
Junee Licorice and Chocolate factory white chocolate boobs NIKON D7100 with 90.0 mm f/2.8 at 90mm and f/8, 1/30sec, ISO 400
Junee Licorice and Chocolate factory white chocolate boobs NIKON D7100 with 90.0 mm f/2.8 at 90mm and f/8, 1/30sec, ISO 400
Junee Licorice and Chocolate factory white chocolate boobs NIKON D7100 with 90.0 mm f/2.8 at 90mm and f/8, 1/30sec, ISO 400

Have you ever been to Junee? Do you like Boobs?

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Belconnen Soccer Club McKellar

Posted by Gary

Belconnen Soccer Club has never featured on Master Chef

Bron and I watch food TV like a lot of Australians. We’re currently enjoying Heston Blumenthal week on the Australian version of Master Chef. As you’d expect there are numerous mentions of Chef Blumenthal’s prime restaurant, The Fat Duck (which is coming to Australia soon). Having heard and read stories about The Fat Duck, we figure when it comes to Australia it’ll be out of our price range. On Friday Bron invited me to dinner with her, and her son Max, to the Belconnen Soccer Club for a ‘consolation’ dinner 🙂 

This isn’t the first time I’ve dined at the Belconnen Soccer Club with Bron and Max. The first time I had a steak and prawns (surf and turf) which wasn’t too bad but I eyed off someone else’s seafood basket and thought that would be what I’d have the next time. 

Bluesky Bistro
Bluesky Bistro

Bron wanted an Asian dish and chose honey chicken while Max chose his favourite, viz., calamari rings and chips. 

Calamari rings. Image courtesy of Max.
Calamari rings. Image courtesy of Max.

Max said the chips were better than the Canberra Southern Cross Club Jamison but the Calamari rings at the CSCC were better.

Honey chicken. Image courtesy of Bron.
Honey chicken. Image courtesy of Bron.

Bron said her meal was fine and on a par with a Chinese takeaway meal. 

TGIF seafood basket for dinner.
TGIF seafood basket for dinner.
TGIF seafood basket for dinner.
TGIF seafood basket for dinner.

The seafood basket had prawn twisters, prawn cutlets, calamari rings, crumbed fish and some chips. It was okay. Not the worst I’ve had but no where near the best.

For dessert Max and I had fried ice cream. Max chose strawberry topping and I chose caramel.

Fried ice cream with strawberry topping. Image courtesy of Max.
Fried ice cream with strawberry topping. Image courtesy of Max.
Fried ice cream with strawberry topping. Image courtesy of Max.
Fried ice cream with strawberry topping. Image courtesy of Max.
TGIF dessert. Fried ice cream and caramel topping.
TGIF dessert. Fried ice cream and caramel topping.
TGIF dessert. Fried ice cream and caramel topping.
TGIF dessert. Fried ice cream and caramel topping.

I didn’t finish mine. It wasn’t very good. The batter was too thick and hadn’t cooked long enough. I wouldn’t eat fried ice cream here again. Max didn’t finish his either.

Vanilla slice from Hoz cafe
Vanilla slice from Hoz cafe

My preferred dessert 🙂 

Belconnen Soccer Club – McKellar

 

 
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