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It feels like it has been a long week. Last week and the week before were relatively short in the sense I was travelling for work.
It was also a big week in other respects. I attended a dinner to farewell a very senior colleague and the same night the mighty Queensland XXXX Maroons defeated the New South Wales cockroaches in the second game of this years State of Origin series. Given Queensland won the first game this means another series victory for the Maroons and this time on home soil at Lang Park. It was hard not to wear a smile on my face for days. I’m still smiling.
I’m very grateful to my friends and family who kept me updated via text messages throughout the evening.
I also voted yesterday. The election is next week but I thought I’d get it over a week early to avoid the crowds and queues. The only thing I missed out on was a sausage sizzle and cake stall. I enjoy voting. I take my time and ensure I mark every box, I don’t just mark the easy options along party lines.
Sunday dinner. Slowly cooked lamb and pork congee with onion, red quinoa, white quinoa, arborio rice, chilli and sugar snap peasMonday Lunch. Slowly cooked lamb and pork congee with onion, red quinoa, white quinoa, and arborio riceMonday dinner. Baked maple syrup salmon with vegetablesWoden wind tunnel on Tuesday morningTuesday lunch. Brioche raisin toast with slowly cooked lamb and cheeseAt work for a 6 am teleconference so I’m eating a double decker brioche raisin toast fluffernutterCelebratory Thursday afternoon tea. Coffee cheesecake from Urban Bean Espresso BarCoffee cheesecake from Urban Bean Espresso BarThursday dinner. Still happy. Chicken Maryland with sweet potato and avocadoFriday lunch. Roast beef with potato and sweet potatoFriday dinner. Baked Chicken Maryland with vegetables and quinoa riceSaturday viewing. Lavalantula
Made by the Sharknado people and starring the Police Academy actors.
Saturday morning. Fried eggsSaturday dinner. Pulled pork sandwich with coleslaw and caramelised onionCaramelised onionLake Ginninderra#lakeginninderra #belconnen #canberra #cbr with some extra saturation Google Nik CollectionI voted on Saturday. A week early to avoid the crowds and queues next week. Belconnen Community CentreSunday breakfast. Smashed avocado on raisin toastReady to walk on a –5 °C morning.Frost on Lake GinninderraFrost on Lake GinninderraLake GinninderraLake GinninderraHot chocolate made with Fluff in a LMG mugLake GinninderraLake GinninderraLake Ginninderra bubbles at John Knight Memorial ParkSunday dinner. Slowly cooked boubon barbecue oyster blade steak with pearl couscous, chickpeas and vegetables
I hope you had a good week and enjoyed some fine food.
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Greg hated it. I thought I’d make my own pulled pork roll using some Coles pulled pork. What could be easier? I also bought a soft bread roll, some caramelised onion and coleslaw to go on my roll.
Pulled pork from Coles
The roll was pretty easy to make. I toasted the bread roll and then layered on the coleslaw, pork and caramelised onion.
The whole thing was delicious. The roll wasn’t sweet like the KFC one and pork was tasty and tender. I liked the caramelised onion too.
Pulled pork sandwich with coleslaw and caramelised onion
It was pretty delicious.
Lake Ginninderra
In other news the weather cleared after a week of rain and cloud so I walked around Lake Ginninderra.
These photographs have been edited with the help of the Google Nik Collection.
If you like pulled pork I suggest not buying a fast food version. Even buying ready made pulled pork is better than that.
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Fluffernutter
So a couple of weeks ago I wrote about what I called the Australian fluffernutter sammich. I mentioned how I got the idea from Jennifer who is the creator of Little Monster Girl. Jennifer is so kind and generous that she sent me some German Fluff. Well it’s American Fluff but it was imported into Germany. Check out the container, the writing is in German.
Marshmallow Fluff from Germany courtesy of Jennifer
So tonight I made a fluffernutter sandwich in more or less the traditional sense. I didn’t have any white sandwich bread so I used some brioche raisin bread.
Fluffernutter on brioche raisin bread
Combining German Fluff with peanut paste is fantastic.
I’m sorry the photograph is a little fluffy lol
The German Fluff fluffernutter sandwich tasted delicious and constituted a great dessert tonight. If I did have some white sandwich bread I reckon it would taste just as good. I wonder what it would be like if I toasted it or pan fried it in some butter. I may also add some nutella too
Thank you Jennifer so much. I will be having more fluffernutter sandwiches this winter and I reckon the German Fluff will go well in hot chocolate.
Lunch, afternoon tea and dinner
In other news I enjoyed some salmon and wasabi for lunch and then some blue cheese and pâté for afternoon tea.
Sinus clearing Wasabi salmon and avocado on Ritz crackers with chilli flakes and aioliBlue cheese and pâté on Ritz crackersCheesy beef sausages and crispy quinoa rice with chilli vegetables
Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra on a gloomy Saturday using Google Nik Classic Camera filter
My version of quinoa chicken fat risotto is not really a risotto at all. In many ways it’s more like a congee but I was inspired to call it a risotto after an old friend from the Northern Territory sent me a text message over the weekend about the NRL.
Anthony Draper is a medical laboratory scientist who now works as an Australian Food Network (OzFoodNet) epidemiologist in Darwin. I met Drapes (as he is known) when he began in Katherine at the Katherine Hospital. We had a small pathology laboratory there and when I used to visit as the supervising pathologist we would always make a thing of morning tea and lunch. I even went to the extent of buying them a large George Foreman grill so we could enjoy barbecued meats and other treats. Even one of our vegetarian colleagues happily made tofu kebabs and grilled them. Anyway one of Drapes’ special treats was what he named Drapotto, a dish named after himself. Drapotto was made with rice and a lot of cheese and made in a microwave oven. My understanding of risotto and those who specialise in the preparation of fine cuisine is that a microwave oven is anathema.
So tonight as I make Yumotto I salute my mate Drapes and Drapotto.
The recipe relies on previously cooked quinoa rice
Check out the recipe for [url href=”https://yummylummy.com/2016/03/26/succulent-slow-roasted-rib-eye-beef/” target=”_blank”]roast beef[/url] from last night
In a pyrex bowl lined with baking paper add the cold but cooked quinoa rice that has absorbed a huge amount of beef fat
Add some water to the quinoa rice
Overlay the quinoa rice with a Chicken Maryland piece
Cook for 1 hour at 175 °C
When cooked fork through the quinoa rice and add the [url href=”http://coon.com.au/” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”]Coon cheese[/url]
Stir until it has the consistency of risotto
Plate up
Shoot a photograph
Eat the meal of chicken Yumotto
Wash the dishes
Write the recipe
Blog (verb)
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If you click on the photograph below a Flikr album will open which you can scroll through.
For breakfast I enjoyed a hot cross bun with butter, peanut paste and ginger marmalde
Before lunch I went for a walk around Lake Ginninderra. I had some fun with the free Nik software from Google which I downloaded yesterday. If you click on the photograph below a Flikr album will open which you can scroll through.
For lunch I made a Garlo’s beef and mushroom meat pie with blue cheese, Worcestershire sauce, tomato sauce and Coon cheese. If you click on the photograph below a Flikr album will open which you can scroll through.
Slowly roasted rib eye beef on the bone with red and white quinoa rice and roast capsicum, onion, nuts, cheese and maple syrup served with Grumpy’s brewed ginger beer
Tonight I cooked a really succulent slow roasted rib eye beef with red and white quinoa rice plus roasted cheesy vegetables.
I reckon in many ways it’s relatively easy to roast poultry, lamb and even pork. Beef though can be a bugger to roast so it’s tender and succulent.
In a baking tray place the halves of a brown onion
Rest the beef on the onion
Add a handful of red and white quinoa and rice to the baking tray
Add 1 glass of water
Add a small handful of black peppercorns
Season the beef with salt and dried mixed herbs
Cover with aluminium foil
Place into an oven at 150 °C for 3 hours
At the 2 hour mark add a baking tray with sliced onion and capsium that has been oiled and seasoned. Pour on some maple syrup and sprinkle the grated Coon on top and put into the oven for the remaining hour of cooking
At 3 hours remove the beef and allow to rest covered for a full 20 minutes
Cut off one bone and put the rest into a vacuum pack bag and seal and then freeze
Plate up the beef with the vegetables, quinoa rice and onion. Add a generous dollop of horseradish
[url href=”https://goo.gl/photos/qdxreMgQAM4vJPtf7″ target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow”]Shoot a photograph[/url]
Eat the meal
Wash the dishes
Write the recipe
Blog (verb)
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It was a nice day in Canberra today. A little cool but the sky was blue.
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