meal for one

Crab bacon sandwich

Posted by Gary

Last week I had my first crab bacon sandwich from Ted’s Bakery in Haleiwa.

I arrived back in Canberra today after the last day in Hawaii. I wanted dinner to reflect something really special from Hawaii and something I could do easily.

Sandwiches should be easy to make and this is a pretty simple meal that anyone can put together for themselves. 

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Fresh crab would have been better

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I love this Pialligo Farm artisan bacon. Simply the best. I’ve used this amazing bacon before. 

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A soft bread roll. I bought this from Coles.

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Lightly fried with some cream cheese. I love cream cheese. 

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Yum. The bacon on the cream cheese. I cooked the bacon in the oven at 200 °C for 15 minutes.

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I mixed the crab with some mayonnaise. I drained the crab for a while.

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I forgot the onion but I had iceberg lettuce and tomato.

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This crab bacon sandwich was just as good as the one I had at Ted’s Bakery last week. It was the duck’s guts.

Have you ever had a crab bacon sandwich?

 

Super Saturday salmon sandwiches

Posted by Gary

Today I ended up have salmon sandwiches for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Who would have thought I’d ever do that?

I basically repeated breakfast and lunch but changed the carbohydrate from a quinoa pane di casa to a poppy seed bagel. For dinner I had the last quinoa pane di casa and cooked some salmon. All three salmon sandwiches were essentially the same with minor variations. 

Tomorrow is Sunday. Will there be salmon on Sunday?

Smoked salmon, capers, and cream cheese on quinoa and whole grain pane di casa | salmon sandwiches
Breakfast | Smoked salmon, capers, and cream cheese on quinoa and whole grain pane di casa

This was a nice light breakfast and it had quinoa 

Smoked salmon, dill, capers, and cream cheese on a bagel | salmon sandwiches
Lunch | Smoked salmon, dill, capers, and cream cheese on a bagel

I went and bought some dill especially today after breakfast because salmon needs dill.

Atlantic salmon, dill, capers, and cream cheese on quinoa and whole grain pane di casa with potato gems | salmon sandwiches
Dinner | Atlantic salmon, dill, capers, and cream cheese on quinoa and whole grain pane di casa with potato gems

The big difference for dinner was adding the potato gems. I love potato gems.

 

This afternoon I went for a walk around Lake Ginninderra and shot some photographs.

Cloud porn over Lake Ginninderra
Cloud porn over Lake Ginninderra
Big yellow tree on Lake Ginninderra
Big yellow tree on Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra

Do you like salmon sandwiches? What do you put on them?

Where’s the quinoa in this delicious chicken roll?

Posted by Gary

TGIF people and it’s Friday night with the footy about to start and a weekend to enjoy. What could be better than a quick and easy delicious chicken roll? The perfect food to eat while watching the footy. Lets Go Broncos!

So where’s the quinoa? Well it’s in the wholemeal pane di casa!

Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter and a layer of roquette topped with roast chicken and stuffing and a line of mustard, my delicious chicken roll
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter and a layer of roquette topped with roast chicken and stuffing and a line of mustard, my delicious chicken roll
Where’s the quinoa in this delicious chicken roll?
 
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: Gary Lum
Prep time:
Total time:
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Roast chicken
  • Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa
  • Butter
  • Baby roquette
  • Dijon mustard
Instructions
  1. Cut the bread rolls with a nice long longitudinal slit
  2. Add lashings of butter
  3. Add the roquette
  4. Add the shredded chicken and stuffing and best of all the skin
  5. Add a line of dijon mustard and some pepper
 

 

Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter and a layer of roquette
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter and a layer of roquette
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter and a layer of roquette topped with roast chicken and stuffing
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter and a layer of roquette topped with roast chicken and stuffing
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter and a layer of roquette topped with roast chicken and stuffing and a line of mustard
Wholemeal and quinoa pane di casa with lashings of butter and a layer of roquette topped with roast chicken and stuffing and a line of mustard

What could be simpler? How do you make a delicious chicken roll?

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