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Happy VD

Posted by Gary

Yeah it’s VD, you know Valentine’s Day. I prefer VD mainly because I like sexually transmitted infections and the old fashioned name was venereal disease. Hence VD.

I spent the day enjoying myself eating, walking, shooting photographs and watching TV.

For breakfast I made myself a cheese omelet.

After breakfast I went for a walk around Lake Ginninderra and shot a few photographs.

This is a panorama I stitched together in Adobe Lightroom CC.

 

I nearly walked into this spider while walking across a bridge. It was only about 5 cm long but it looked angry I had disturbed its web. 

I came across this cow. I’d like to name this photograph, “rump steak in Belconnen”.


Someone had a good time last night with a couple of bottles of beer.

When I got back to the apartment this praying mantis was waiting for me.


For lunch I enjoyed some smoked salmon with cream cheese, chives and dill on Vita-Weat biscuits.


These are some VD roses from my garden.


  
After doing my ironing and other things this afternoon I went to Crust Pizza and bought a Crust supreme with anchovies for Happy VD dinner.



I hope VD was good for you.

Tell me about your VD.

What I ate and did this weekend

Posted by Gary

I’ve had a good weekend. I’ve been doing a two day learning course on Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop. I’ve been using Lightroom for a couple of years but I know very little about Photoshop. It was a really good experience. The weekend was arranged by the Canberra School of Photography and the teacher was David Harradine. I’d happily recommend courses by Irene Lorbergs at CSP and David from whack.com.au

I’ve also eaten well this weekend mind you at the course I ate nut muesli bars, potato chips and diet coke.

Check out this gallery for some of what I ate and some stuff I learnt about layers and masks in Photoshop.

Strawberry sundae at The Ekka
Strawberry sundae at The Ekka | I learnt to make a copy layer, select the ice cream and reduce the saturation.
Saturday breakfast. Fried egg on a salmon rissole with coffee.
Saturday breakfast. Fried egg on a salmon rissole with coffee. This was tasty.
Saturday dinner. Chicken and cabbage congee.
Saturday dinner. Chicken and cabbage congee. I made this in the slow cooker. I nearly went with vegetarian congee.
Nestlé condensed milk at Coles
Nestlé condensed milk at Coles for my coffee
Sunday breakfast. Bacon, egg and avocado roll at The Cupping Room.
Sunday breakfast. Bacon, egg and avocado roll at The Cupping Room. The bacon is from Pialligo farm. Best bacon in Australia.
Sunday dinner. Baked salmon and avocado.
Sunday dinner. Baked salmon and avocado. Sans salmon.
Sunday dinner. Baked salmon and avocado.
Sunday dinner. Baked salmon and avocado. In full colour.
Sunday dinner. Baked salmon and avocado.
Sunday dinner. Baked salmon and avocado. Desaturated the avocado and plate.

If you want to see the photographs as a gallery check out Google Photos. Click on one image to see it full size. To see the EXIF data (including a map if the photograph was geotagged) click on the information (i) icon in the top right corner. You can navigate through the gallery using the arrow keys or by swiping if you’re using a tablet or smartphone.

What did you get up to this weekend? What did you eat this weekend?

What I ate today

Posted by Gary

Today has been quiet. The weather was nice, it started cold but warmed up during the day and got got cold again in the early afternoon. I walked around Lake Ginninderra and ate well.

If you want to see the photographs as a gallery check out Google Photos. Click on one image to see it full size. To see the EXIF data (including a map if the photograph was geotagged) click on the information (i) icon in the top right corner. You can navigate through the gallery using the arrow keys or by swiping if you’re using a tablet or smartphone.

No boats sign
I’d replace “past” with “or”
Little black cormorants on Lake Ginninderra
Little black cormorants on Lake Ginninderra
Australasian Darter on Lake Ginninderra
Australasian Darter on Lake Ginninderra
Black bird on Lake Ginninderra
Black bird on Lake Ginninderra
Mocha in a mug at Heather's House of Cake
Mocha in a mug at Heather’s House of Cake

For breakfast I decided to go with two eggs and an English muffin. Between the egg and muffin I sneaked in a little ginger, lemon and lime marmalade. For lunch I tried something new, white rice with crab meat thickened with yoghurt and some Parmesan cheese. For dinner I baked some skinless chicken thigh in aluminium foil plus some baked Parmesan chips.

Sunday breakfast. Fried eggs on English muffin.
Sunday breakfast. Fried eggs on English muffin.
Sunday lunch. White rice with crab meat. Low residue meal.
Sunday lunch. White rice with crab meat. Low residue meal.
Sunday dinner. Baked skinless chicken thigh with baked Parmesan chips.
Sunday dinner. Baked skinless chicken thigh with baked Parmesan chips.

What did you get up to today?

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3 delicious low carb meals

Posted by Gary

I really need to lose weight. The only successful way I’ve lost weight has been to take a low carb approach. Whether this goes on or not will depend on motivation. Today I was motivated.

The thing about low carb eating is that it isn’t as easy as it sounds. You may think it’s all bacon and eggs and meat but it isn’t. It’s important to carefully choose vegetables and during the initial induction phase it’s important not to eat fruit. The big risks in the induction phase are constipation and gout. Both are uncomfortable and painful. Whether I continue depends on how I feel.

For breakfast I prepared a low carb fried egg, bacon and parmesan cheese dish.

Saturday morning fried egg with cheesy bacon
Saturday morning fried egg with cheesy bacon

I really like cooking my bacon in a small benchtop oven which allows easy melting of cheese.

After grocery shopping I went for a walk around Lake Ginninderra and found a pelican, black swan and some other water birds

Pelican and water birds on Lake Ginninderra
Pelican and water birds on Lake Ginninderra

It wasn’t a great day for photography

I had a coffee at Heather’s House of Cake

Long black #coffee while walking around #LakeGinninderra #exercise #walking #health #canberra #cbr #igerscanberra

For lunch I made a beef mince roll with tasty Coon cheese wrapped in iceberg lettuce

Lettuce wrapped beef mince roll
Lettuce wrapped beef mince roll

This didn’t look that exciting but it tasted surprisingly good.

For dinner I made a prawn and bacon omelet

Raw peeled prawns
Raw peeled prawns

I bought these from Coles

Cooked prawns and bacon pieces
Cooked prawns and bacon pieces

Cooked in bacon fat and butter

Prawn and bacon omelet
Prawn and bacon omelet

So far so good for a low carb day.

How do you feel about a low carb way of living?

Bacon and egg breakfast wrap recipe

Posted by Gary

Regular readers and followers on Instagram will know that I have a thing for the Mavi breakfast wrap. The “Mavi special” contains an hashed brown, mushrooms, bacon, fried egg and cheese. The customer gets a choice of tomato or barbecue sauce. I’ve seen one person asked for tomato and barbecue sauce to be combined. I’m not sure of that combination.

Breakfast wrap with streaky bacon, fried eggs, Shepard avocado, spinach leaves, chard, Bega cheese and barbecue sauce
Breakfast wrap with streaky bacon, fried eggs, Shepard avocado, spinach leaves, chard, Bega cheese and barbecue sauce
Bacon and egg breakfast wrap recipe
 
Recipe Type: Breakfast
Cuisine: Australian
Author: Gary Lum
Prep time:
Cook time:
Total time:
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Helga’s flatbread wrap (whole grain)
  • Bega cheese
  • Shepard avocado
  • Spinach and chard leaves
  • Fried eggs
  • Streaky bacon
  • Barbecue sauce
  • Pepper
Instructions
  1. Cook the bacon in a benchtop oven at 200 °C for 15 minutes
  2. Fry two eggs slowly and gently
  3. Wilt the spinach and chard in the frying pan
  4. Mash the avocado in a bowl
  5. Lay out the flatbread and put two slices of cheese on it
  6. Put it into a microwave oven for 10 seconds to soften the cheese and the bread
  7. Spread out some avocado
  8. Lay on the spinach and chard
  9. Lay on the eggs and some pepper
  10. Lay on the bacon
  11. Squirt on some barbecue sauce
  12. Roll the bread into a wrap
  13. Cut like a fancy man
  14. Shoot a photograph
  15. Eat the wrap
  16. Wash the dishes
  17. Write the recipe
  18. Blog (verb)
 
Helga's flat bread wrap
Helga’s flat bread wrap
Helga's flatbread wrap with cheese
Helga’s flatbread wrap with cheese
Helga's flatbread wrap with cheese and avocado
Helga’s flatbread wrap with cheese and avocado
Helga's flatbread wrap with cheese, avocado, spinach and chard
Helga’s flatbread wrap with cheese, avocado, spinach and chard
Helga's flatbread wrap with cheese, avocado, spinach and chard, and fried eggs
Helga’s flatbread wrap with cheese, avocado, spinach and chard, and fried eggs
Helga's flatbread wrap with cheese, avocado, spinach and chard, fried eggs and streaky bacon
Helga’s flatbread wrap with cheese, avocado, spinach and chard, fried eggs and streaky bacon
Helga's flatbread wrap with cheese, avocado, spinach and chard, fried eggs, streaky bacon and barbecue sauce
Helga’s flatbread wrap with cheese, avocado, spinach and chard, fried eggs, streaky bacon and barbecue sauce
Breakfast wrap with streaky bacon, fried eggs, Shepard avocado, spinach leaves, chard, Bega cheese and barbecue sauce
Breakfast wrap with streaky bacon, fried eggs, Shepard avocado, spinach leaves, chard, Bega cheese and barbecue sauce

Do you like a breakfast wrap? Have you ever made one? What would you put in yours?  

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