Sandwich

Angus beef quinoa cheeseburger

Posted 2015-04-02 by Gary

Earlier in the week I shared a salmon wrap post and my good blogger friend John from the UK left a concerned comment about my recent quinoa love. I replied that I needed to break this vicious cycle that I’m in. You’d think I could do it cold turkey, but no, tonight I used quinoa again in an Angus beef quinoa cheeseburger.

Angus beef quinoa cheeseburger

Recipe Type: Dinner

Cuisine: Australian

Author: Gary Lum

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 10 mins

Total time: 20 mins

Serves: 1

Ingredients

Angus beef burger
Bega cheese
Bread
Butter
Grapeseed oil
Mustard
Barbecue sauce
Quiona

Instructions

Cook the burger in an oven at 200 °C for 15 minutes
Fry two slices of bread in butter and grapeseed oil
Place Bega cheese on each slice of bread and continue frying until the cheese begins to melt
Apply a thick smear of quinoa to one slice of cheese covered bread
Squirt on some mustard
Lay on the Angus beef burger (notice the blood has gone a nice chocolate brown just like chocolate agar (that’s my Easter special everyone)
Squirt on some more mustard and some barbecue sauce
Top with the other slice of bread and cheese
Cut and shoot a photograph for Instagram and Facebook
Eat the sandwich
Wash the dishes
Write the recipe
Blog (verb)

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Fried bread and melting Bega cheese covered in quinoa

Fried bread and melting Bega cheese covered in quinoa and mustard

Fried bread and melting Bega cheese covered in quinoa and mustard now with an Angus beef burger

Fried bread and melting Bega cheese covered in quinoa and mustard now with an Angus beef burger and more mustard and barbecue sauce

Hey John just so you know I didn’t have quinoa for lunch today

Hot smoked salmon, feta stuffed pepper, olives, blue cheese, roquette, figs and honey

So would you eat an Angus beef quinoa cheeseburger? How do I stop eating quinoa?

What is the best sandwich ever? Eating while watching #MKR

Posted 2015-02-03 by Gary

The best sandwich for me is a battered fish and coleslaw sandwich with white bread. I’ve written about this sandwich on the old Yummy Lummy blog.

This morning I came across a post by Pat Geyer aka the Ranting Chef about a competition he’s running on his blog about sandwiches. It got me thinking about having a sandwich for dinner.

A lot of options went through my mind but after a late meeting I thought it would be easier to go to the Jamison Takeaway and pick up some fish and potato scallops.

Here you go my new and improved favourite sandwich. Please check out the story from the old blog for the history to this and for more information on the Jamison Takeaway which I reckon is the best takeaway in Canberra.

Battered fish, potato scallop, kale coleslaw, Persian feta on a fried sesame seed bun NIKON D7100 with 40.0 mm f/2.8 at 40mm and f/8, 1/125sec, ISO 400

Battered fish, potato scallop, kale coleslaw, Persian feta on a fried sesame seed bun NIKON D7100 with 40.0 mm f/2.8 at 40mm and f/8, 1/80sec, ISO 400

So I fried off the sesame seed bun in some grapeseed oil and on the top piece I spread some Persian feta. On the bottom half of the bun I put a potato scallop and then some kale coleslaw and the added the battered fish.

I can highly recommend this sandwich.

What’s your favourite sandwich?

Salmon and avocado sandwich

Posted 2014-12-13 by Gary

A local Canberra blogging friend http://talesofaconfectionist.wordpress.com/ posts multiple times a day with photographs of food she is eating. Sometimes she will write a longer and more descriptive post. I really like receiving multiple e-mails a day knowing that when I click the link I’ll see something delicious. If you like a broad mix of delicious food, I can recommend following http://talesofaconfectionist.wordpress.com/ Once there you’ll read stories of food and how her fiance keeps her happy with macarons

Today I made Mum and Dad a simple sandwich made from tinned red salmon and avocado on Helga’s traditional wholemeal bread (with some butter and pepper).

Saturday lunch. Salmon and avocado on Helga's traditional wholemeal bread. Apple iPhone 6 Plus with iPhone 6 Plus back camera 4.15mm f/2.2 at 4mm and f/2.2, 1/15sec, ISO 50 — Saturday lunch. Salmon and avocado on Helga’s traditional wholemeal bread. Apple iPhone 6 Plus with iPhone 6 Plus back camera 4.15mm f/2.2 at 4mm and f/2.2, 1/15sec, ISO 50

Mum and Dad enjoyed their salmon and avocado sandwich. I hope you do too

BLAT Bacon lettuce avocado tomato sandwich

Posted 2014-11-02 by Gary

This week Liz from Bizzy Lizzy’s Good Things wrote about an ultimate BLT (bacon lettuce tomato) sandwich. It inspired my Saturday lunch.

While I was thinking of replicating Liz’s version I had some left over ciabatta in the freezer as well as an avocado that needed eating. In my mind there is no point wasting good food.

Saturday BLAT for lunch. Bacon lettuce avocado and tomato sandwich. With the top off. NIKON D7100 with 90.0 mm f/2.8 at 90mm and f/16, 1/8sec, ISO 400

BLAT Bacon lettuce avocado tomato sandwich

Recipe Type: Lunch

Cuisine: Australian

Author: Gary Lum

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 20 mins

Total time: 30 mins

Serves: 1

Ingredients

Ciabatta bread
Vine ripened tomato
Streaky bacon
Cos lettuce
Avocado
Lemon
Grapeseed oil
Pepper
Butter

Instructions

Add a little butter to the bread and grill butter side down in a hot pan until golden brown
Cook the streaky bacon in a bench top oven at 200 °C for 15 minutes
Make an avocado spread with avocado, grapeseed oil, lemon juice and some pepper
Slice the tomato, drain on some kitchen towel and add pepper
Cut the cos lettuce to fit the bread
Apply the avocado spread to the bottom piece of bread
Lay on the lettuce
Lay on the streaky bacon
Lay on the tomato
Shoot a photograph with the top piece of bread artistically positioned over a corner of the sandwich
Shoot another photograph with the rose from my garden
Put some avocado spread on the top piece of bread and put the sandwich together
Cut the sandwich on an angle
Shoot a close up photograph showing all the internal goodness
Eat the sandwich
Wash the dishes
Write the recipe
Blog (verb)
Hope that people like the recipe and the photographs

Saturday BLAT for lunch. Bacon lettuce avocado and tomato sandwich. The rose is from my garden. NIKON D7100 with 90.0 mm f/2.8 at 90mm and f/22, 1/5sec, ISO 400

Saturday BLAT for lunch. Bacon lettuce avocado and tomato sandwich. Close up after cutting in half. NIKON D7100 with 90.0 mm f/2.8 at 90mm and f/3.2, 1/320sec, ISO 400

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Black swan

Posted 2014-09-13 by Gary

The black swan is meant to be rare

Yet here in Australia they are common.

A few years back I was at a meeting in New Mexico and heard an American speaker use the term ‘black swan event’ and from the context it sounded like he meant they were events that had a very low likelihood of ever happening. I didn’t quite understand so I asked the question what did he mean. He said black swans were regarded as a rarity, an unlikely event. When he heard my accent he realised my confusion.

Talking about black swan events is an error if there are Australians in the audience. It’s similar to when people from the Northern Hemisphere refer to seasons for meeting dates and when I ask for clarification there is the realisation that the seasons are reversed for the Southern Hemisphere.

So after a bacon, egg and tasty Coon cheese fried bread sandwich I went for a walk around the middle loop of Lake Burly Griffin.