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Christmas 2016 greetings from Yummy Lummy

Posted by Gary

Merry Christmas dear readers

If you don’t celebrate Christmas, I hope you’re enjoying whatever it is you celebrate.

If you don’t celebrate at all, I wish you a safe and peaceful day.

I just wanted to share a piece of art that my friend Jennifer did for me to celebrate Christmas.

I hope whatever you’re eating today is as tasty as I reckon this barbeque pig would taste after slowing turning and cooking for a few hours.

Looking back over 2016

This year (2016) has been pretty good for me. It started with a holiday in Hong Kong with my daughters. It was the best holiday ever. I really loved spending nine nights there and spending time with my girls. We did a lot of things including a lot of shopping. For me, the highlight was the food. OMG! I ate so much.

Work has been very fulfilling and very rewarding. I tend not to write much about work, but I am fortunate to have excellent and very supportive bosses right up to the secretary of the department. I’ve also loved being able to continue practising medicine in ACT Pathology at The Canberra Hospital. I have the perfect balance work wise.

I’m also experiencing a great balance in life too. As well as blogging here at Yummy Lummy, I’ve started a YouTube channel with some videos on the food I eat. If you have watched them I hope you enjoy them. I’d love it if you would leave comments, like the videos and subscribe.

Podcasting is fun

The other thing I’ve started this year is a podcast named Medical Fun Facts. It’s a great outlet for my sense of humour coupled with my professional interest as opposed to my food interests.

Work has been great

Work has seen me visit Manila and Helsinki this year for various aspects of the work I do.

I love reading other blogs

I’ve also been enjoying reading blogs from quite a lot of bloggers.

I’d like to shout out to my friends who I share comments with and who regularly comment on Yummy Lummy.

Jennifer over at Little Monster Girl NSFW

Lorraine over at Not Quite Nigella

Rebecca over at A Lover’s Musing NSFW

Sarah over at Travels with Choppy

Mabel over at Mabel Kwong

My Hawaiian brother the Mouse at Live2EatEat2Live

Tim over at Off Center and Not Even

Irene over at Irene Design

Karen over at Back Road Journal

Julie at Jules Strawberry. Julie is a really funny Texan who is now in California and she has really great adventures. 

So I hope you had a good 2016. Did you start something new? Did you stop anything? What has been your highlight for 2016?

For 2017, I hope to do much of the same, working, blogging, YouTube and podcasting, and of course eating! What are you planning for 2017?

I’d love it if you followed me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel and please check out my podcast and subscribe via iTunes.

Catch you soon.

PS. One thing I do mourn now at Christmas is that my favourite Christmas song, viz., Six White Boomers, is now dead to me because of the criminal behaviour of Rolf Harris toward women (the link opens an NSFW photograph). 

Quick tip for cooking chicken pieces

Posted by Gary

 

 

It can be a bit boring cooking just one piece of chicken for your meal for one.

I often cook my chook on something, like some quinoa rice, or pearl barley couscous or even some ramen noodles.

Roasting these starchy carbs under the piece of chicken has two benefits. The juices from the chicken infuse into whatever it sits on and the roasting ensures the rice or couscous or noodles come out crunchy for some added mouthfeel.

So I’ve taken up another hobby! Podcasting. A friend at work likes to hear medical fun facts and I thought I could put them together and made a podcast about them. 

Would you like to hear some Medical Fun Facts? Check out the link https://drgarylum.com/blog/ 

Roast sesame Chicken Maryland with avocado and potato chips #dinner #yummylummy #foodporn #yummy #delicious #instafood #nikon Gary Lum
Roast sesame Chicken Maryland with avocado and potato chips
#dinner #yummylummy #foodporn #yummy #delicious #instafood #nikon

3 highlights from this week plus a whole heap of other stuff

Posted by Gary

Tonight I’m writing a weekly wrap up of 3 highlights from this week plus a whole heap of other stuff

Saturday 27 August 2016

My youngest brother became Mr45

I started the day with avocado on toast

Avocado on fried bread
Avocado on fried bread

Lunch was a Garlo’s lean beef and mushroom meat pie

Dinner was a plate of beef burgers coated in crumbs made from Panko and fried shallots

Sunday 28 August 2016

I started with a nice walk around Lake Ginninderra

Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra
Lake Ginninderra
Spring flower on Lake Ginninderra
Spring flower on Lake Ginninderra

Breakfast was eggs Benedict with salmon

Eggs Benedict with salmon
Eggs Benedict with salmon

Lunch was another Garlo’s meat pie

Garlo's beef and mushroom pie with Worcestershire sauce inside
Garlo’s beef and mushroom pie with Worcestershire sauce inside

Dinner was slowly roasted lamb shoulder

Monday 29 August 2016

A relatively uneventful day at work, busy but not hectic.

Dinner was salmon and prawns coated in crumbs made from panko and fried shallots

Tuesday 30 August 2016

Nothing to report from Work

Bad news

Miss15 broke the fifth metacarpal on her dominant hand while on the balance beam. This means she won’t be competing with Ms19 at the National Club Championships in Bendigo later in September. I am so sad for Miss15. She’s already had a couple of fractured vertebrae last year as well as an injured ankle.

Dinner was baked salmon with avocado on a bed of pearl barley couscous

Wednesday 31 August 2016

Highlight #1

Performance review time. I came away very happy.

Highlight #2

The plumber came and fixed a leak in my en suite hand basin, repaired the taps in my laundry and tightened the taps in my shower. For those querying, yes I could do this myself but all my tools are still in storage and as a renter I shouldn’t be doing my own running repairs.

Dinner was chicken Maryland with macaroni and Brussels sprouts

Thursday 1 September 2016

It wasn’t pay day so it wasn’t an exciting Thursday. I did have a good meeting though at Russel Offices.

Dinner was a piece of chicken Maryland on a bed of crispy crunchy ‘instant’ noodles with Brussels sprouts.

Friday 2 September 2016

Hospital day!

Highlight #3

I received a gift from a workmate who had just passed her Part I examinations for her Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. She bought me a first edition of the American Society for Microbiology’s Manual of Clinical Microbiology. I have every edition of the Manual but the first which was published in 1970. This made my day. I was so happy. In fact, this made my week.

Manual of Clinical Microbiology First edition
Manual of Clinical Microbiology First edition

Dinner was leftover lamb shoulder with red quinoa and brown rice done fried rice style except rather than soy sauce I used Worcestershire sauce for an English touch.

Saturday 3 September 2016

It was raining cats and dogs so no walking today.

Lunch was a Garlo’s sausage roll and beef and mushroom hot pie

Garlo's beef and mushroom pie with Worcestershire sauce inside plus a sausage roll
Garlo’s beef and mushroom pie with Worcestershire sauce inside plus a sausage roll

Dinner was Coles Australian pork slowly cooked pork ribs

Final words

How was your week?

Let me know in the comments below.

 

Tidying up my on-line presence

Posted by Gary

Hello there, I need to tidy up my on-line presence. I’ve been thinking for a while that I should disentangle my various social media accounts and look at trying not jumble everything together.

To that end, because I’ve recently started playing with video and posting them to YouTube I thought I should have a clean channel for the food videos. Of course, it isn’t that easy, YouTube has rules so, for the time being, I can’t get a customised URL.

So in the meantime, I’d really appreciate you visiting http://bit.ly/YummyLummyYouTube and taking a look around and subscribing. Thank you so much.

Yummy Lummy logo and text

 

I’ll be keeping my main channel for other things. Again, I would love if you could visit http://bit.ly/GaryLumYouTube, take a look around and subscribe there to. Thank you very much.

Work presence

Some readers know that I have work accounts for Twitter and Facebook. I try not to do anything on them apart from the odd retweet and share. I use those accounts to follow work-related Twitter and Facebook feeds. I also have a couple of websites for ‘work’ related stuff. They are at http://drgarylum.com/ and https://garydavidlum.com/  Please visit these sites and check them out.

Gary trying to be a better photographer

I really enjoy photography. My interest started when I built my own laboratory in the rumpus room of my parent’s house in 1981. I had an Olympus OM-1 and adapted it to shoot through my microscope. When I was working in Darwin I shot clinical photographs of patient’s wounds, especially their feet if they had diabetes-related foot infections. Back then I shot with a Nikon F90.

It’s not just the shooting of a photograph but it’s also the ‘magic’ that happens when I transfer the digital information into software and play around with it. I am just in awe of how clever people are when it comes to designing and manufacturing the hardware and software for digital photography from cameras through to the computer. I spend a good portion of my free time viewing YouTube videos on photography.

My social media accounts for photography and basically nonfood material:

Twitter http://Twitter.com/garydlum

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/garylumphotography/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/garydlum/ is my general all-purpose account and https://www.instagram.com/garylumphotography/ if for nonfood photography

Website http://garylumphotography.com/

My food accounts

If you’re reading this, then you know about http://YummyLummy.com  The name came from a friend at work. At primary school, I was called all manner of things from awful racist names through to the innocuous Lummy Bummy. My youngest brother was called Yummy. I suppose if he ever becomes a food blogger we will need to discuss whether I hand over the name Yummy Lummy to him (or not!).

Website http://YummyLummy.com

Twitter http://Twitter.com/Yummy_Lummy

Instagram http://Instagram.com/YummyLummyBlog

Facebook http://Facebook.com/YummyLummy

Snapchat

I’m also trying to learn Snapchat. I like that it has various funny filters and the short videos can be saved to my iPhone’s camera roll and then uploaded to Instagram.

You can find me at garydlum

Final words

While I’d love a follow/like on all these accounts, please pick and choose and make contact. If you choose one please make it Yummy Lummy on YouTube 

Thank you so much.