Please forgive me I wanted a catchy title. I know full well the majority of earthlings do not share my love for tinned corned beef or SPAM®. In fact some people have made quite gross comments. I don’t care, I like tinned meat products.
Tonight I wanted something to make my quinoa exciting. I had some leftover quinoa from last night’s delicious roasted chicken Maryland (you know, cooked in the cooking juices of the chicken) that I had mixed with arborio rice.
Tonight’s meal is simply curried tinned corned beef bulked up with quinoa and rice and served on a bed of coleslaw. I also added some cheese and green peppercorns for some extra zing.
Corned beef with juices
Probably the only decent thing to come out of New Zealand is this corned beef (apart from cousins and close friends who happened by chance to be born there…)
Quinoa and rice with corned beef on coleslaw
How to make quinoa exciting!
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: Gary Lum
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
Leftover quinoa and rice
Tinned corned beef
Tin of green peppercorns
Cream
Worcestershire sauce
Curry powder
Coleslaw
Red chili for garnish
Instructions
Fry up the corned beef and add the curry powder
Add some Worcestershire sauce
When the corned beef starts to stick to the frying pan add the quinoa and rice and stir through
Again get the corned beef and the rice sticking to the pan and then add some cream
Not much text here about quinoa wraps just photographs.
I’m planning a longer post soon. In that post I’ll go through some steps for the development of quinoa wraps a friend suggested I try to make. You won’t be surprised to know that I’m still gaining weight and each wrap (sans contents) contains 34 grams of carbohydrate and 5.5 grams of fat!
Yes I ate all the chicken pieces
The top set were made with chicken thighs, the middle set had no meat (I know what a surprise but the quinoa was cooked in chicken fat) and the last set was made with tinned corned beef. I used Mission wraps, specifically the zesty garlic herb ones.
All the images were processed using Adobe Lightroom and the diptych images were made with the Diptic app.
I tried to limit myself to one wrap at a time rather than making multiple of them and eating several at a time. I really need to start eating less and lose some weight.
Regular readers know my love of tinned corned beef and other tinned/canned meat like spam and sardines and salmon. Of late, regular readers have also figured out I’m a fan of the superfood quinoa. I like the nutty flavour of quinoa and how it looks. I love the way when it’s cooked it catches the light and reflects it back into the camera lens.
Tonight I put together a treat of tinned corned beef and made a quinoa surprise.
Cook some quinoa and have it ready to go once the corned beef is in the frying pan
Start to heat up the corned beef in a frying pan and add the quinoa
Make sure you have about 1:2 ratio of quinoa to corned beef
Add a splash of Worcestershire sauce and a dessert spoon of curry powder.
Cook through until the meat is easily shredding apart
Add half a cup of mixed lime zest, coriander, mint, parsley and dill and mix in
Add half a Jalapeño pepper and half a red chili and mix in
On a large plate lay down a bed of spinach leaves
Form a circle of coleslaw around the edge of the plate
Add half the lime juice to the cooking corned beef and the other half to the coleslaw circle
Once the corned beef has started to stick to the bottom of the frying pan forming a nice crusty texture, spoon it into the middle of the plate forming a little mountain of corned beef goodness
Add the rest of the green stuff as well as the hot stuff to the mountain of corned beef goodness
Shoot a photograph
Eat the meal and get some of the chili and lime juice in your eye and start making nasty noises
Discover you overdid the jalapeño peppers and red chili and grab a big glass of cold water
Eventually finish the meal once your throat and tongue have stopped burning
Wash the dishes
Write the recipe
Blog (verb) and hope people like this recipe
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What’s your favourite tinned meat? have you cooked a quinoa surprise?
I love corned beef. I love tasty Coon cheese. I love sandwiches. TGIF dinner done!
Stone baked ciabatta loaf from Coles baked today SONY ILCE-7S with E 35mm F1.8 OSS at 35mm and f/4, 1/100sec, ISO 640
Corned beef and tasty Coon cheese on ciabatta
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: Gary Lum
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Serves: 1
This is the epitome of dude food or man food or Gary’s grub
Ingredients
One tin of corned beef
Two slices of tasty Coon cheese
On ciabatta loaf
Pepper
Curry powder
Worcestershire sauce
Instructions
Open the tin of corned beef and cook it slowly in a frying pan with a little oil.
Add a splash of Worcestershire sauce and a tablespoon of curry powder and mix in well.
Cut the loaf in half.
Put the corned beef onto the bottom half of the loaf.
Artistically apply the slices of tasty Coon cheese.
Grill in the benchtop oven until the cheese melts.
Shoot a variety of photographs.
Slice diagonally like a fancy pants cook.
Shoot another photograph.
Eat the sandwich with a bottle of ginger beer.
Wash the dishes.
Write the recipe.
Blog.
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Corned beef and tasty Coon cheese on a ciabatta loaf SONY ILCE-7S with E 35mm F1.8 OSS at 35mm and f/4, 1/100sec, ISO 640Corned beef and tasty Coon cheese on a ciabatta loaf SONY ILCE-7S with E 35mm F1.8 OSS at 35mm and f/4, 1/100sec, ISO 800Corned beef and tasty Coon cheese on a ciabatta loaf NIKON D7100 with 90.0 mm f/2.8 at 90mm and f/5.6, 1/200sec, ISO 400Corned beef and tasty Coon cheese on a ciabatta loaf NIKON D7100 with 90.0 mm f/2.8 at 90mm and f/5.6, 1/80sec, ISO 400
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It’s Sunday. After a good walk yesterday and a bonza dinner at Bron’s last night (check out some photographs I shot last night below) my day’s plan was to sleep in, eat breakfast, go for a walk, catch up on some work and slowly roast a beef brisket.
Breakfast
Streaky bacon, eggs, butter and breadOven baked bacon and pepperSunday sleep in breakfast. Bacon and eggs with fried bread.Sunday sleep in breakfast. Bacon and eggs with fried bread.
Some of my on-line friends have noticed I’ve consumed quite a few carbs over the last week or so. It’s true. I’m paying for it. My waist is thicker, my trousers are tighter and my belt is speaking to me about approaching holes that we’d agreed we wouldn’t go near.
I know what I need to do. When will I do it? I’m not sure. I still have some Haigh’s Chocolates chocolate covered Queensland nuts to finish as well as part of a loaf of bread.
A walk around Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra grassland
Lake Ginninderra grassland
Lake Ginninderra drainage
Pelican on Lake Ginninderra
Flowers on Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra grassland
Lake Ginninderra grassland
Lake Ginninderra
A beach on Lake Ginninderra
What is that pole for on the beach on Lake Ginninderra
A beach on Lake Ginninderra
How did those bottles get on the tree thing on Lake Ginninderra? I’m not sure if someone is buried there.
Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra. Trying to practise framing!
I saw no birds from the birdwatching jetty on Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra
A bridge over Lake Ginninderra
Graffiti on Lake Ginninderra
Graffiti on Lake Ginninderra
Blossoms on Lake Ginninderra
A bridge over Lake Ginninderra
Picnic area on Lake Ginninderra
Pelicans and people on Lake Ginninderra
Looking to Emu Bank on Lake Ginninderra
According to the RunKeeper GPX I can walk on water 😉
Just a quick snack. I heated a can of corned beef and then put it into a pyrex bowl and cooked through with some cream, tasty Coon cheese and spices.
Sunday lunch. Corned beef with cream and cheese.
Dinner pot roast beef brisket
Pot roasted beef brisket recipe
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: Gary Lum
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Serves: Huge
A simple one pot roast with the king of meats, viz., beef.
Ingredients
Rolled beef brisket
Red wine
Balsamic vinegar
Worcestershire sauce
Curry pepper
Black pepper corns
Chinese five spice powder
Mixed dried herbs
Onions
Broccoli
Pumpkin
Instructions
Seal the meat in a hot pan
Rub in the dry ingredients
Put the meat into a casserole
Add in the liquid ingredients
Place a sheet of baking paper between the bowl and the lid (this keeps the lid clean and seals in the moisture
Cook for four hours at 150 °C
At the three hour mark add the pumpkin
At the three and a half hour mark add the broccoli
Plate up
Shoot a photograph or two or more
Eat the meal
Wash the dishes
Write the recipe
Blog about the experience
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Beef brisket
Sunday dinner. Pot roast beef brisket with pumpkin, broccoli, peas and onions.Sunday dinner. Pot roast beef brisket with pumpkin, broccoli, peas and onions.
Bron’s bonza dinner from Saturday night
We enjoyed roast duck pancakes with cucumber, spring onion, coriander and hoisin sauce. It was a fantastic meal. Bron set aside the duck’s neck and cloaca for me because she knows they’re my favourite parts of the duck’s anatomy.
Cucumber, spring onion, coriander and hoisin sauce.Roast duck neck for dinnerRoast duck neck and cloaca for dinnerRoast duck pancake dinnerRoast duck neck dissected trachea and œsophagus for dinner
So I hope you had a great weekend. If you have any comments or questions please leave a comment. I’d love to hear from you.
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(apart from cousins and close friends who happened by chance to be born there…)
