A trove! A trove, I tell you!
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ltmurnauYesterday at lunch while running errands I found an incredible deal on almost-expired back bacon, the no-fat kind with the cornmeal on it (In the US this is often called "Canadian bacon".). Bought pounds and pounds and last night I made a simple but very tasty dish for supper:
Potatoes Carbonara
serves 2
cooking time - approximately 20 minutes
Ingredients
350g new potatoes, sliced (about 3 medium potatoes)
1 tbsp olive oil
100g back bacon rashers, chopped (a lump about the size of your palm)
100g button mushrooms (6-8 regular mushrooms, sliced)
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 red pepper, seeded and chopped
75ml (1/3 cup) single cream (aka half-and-half)
salt and freshly ground pepper
Method
Bring a pan of lightly salted water to the boil, add the potatoes and cook for 10 to 12 minutes or until tender.
Heat the oil in a large frying pan and fry the bacon for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the mushrooms, garlic and peppers and cook for a further 2 to 3 minutes or until softened. Drain the potatoes and add to the pan.
Pour over the cream and cook gently for 3 minutes, stirring. Season with salt and pepper.
Yum, it was good!
I've started walking to work. It's a nice 30 minutes or so in the cool part of the day, and I can mostly avoid busier streets so it's quiet. I may not bea ble to get rid of this prodigious gut, but I can get my gimply old legs back into shape.
The party/gallery opening was lots of fun! Thanks to everyone who made it out, and apologies to everyone who got lost trying to find the place.... Aki had a great time mounting guard over the gate, I took a lot of photos (will post some when I have them read into my laptop) and made him some good chicken wings. I took a big bag of my castings to give away and stuck them up on a cork-board, at Gary's suggestion I put up a tin can for "donations to the Metal Fund". I don't know how many were taken, but I collected over $30, didn't expect that! I split the take with Aki since the more popular pins were of his design (the Eskimo Astronaut, the Wounded Fandango Man, etc.).
Potatoes Carbonara
serves 2
cooking time - approximately 20 minutes
Ingredients
350g new potatoes, sliced (about 3 medium potatoes)
1 tbsp olive oil
100g back bacon rashers, chopped (a lump about the size of your palm)
100g button mushrooms (6-8 regular mushrooms, sliced)
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 red pepper, seeded and chopped
75ml (1/3 cup) single cream (aka half-and-half)
salt and freshly ground pepper
Method
Bring a pan of lightly salted water to the boil, add the potatoes and cook for 10 to 12 minutes or until tender.
Heat the oil in a large frying pan and fry the bacon for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the mushrooms, garlic and peppers and cook for a further 2 to 3 minutes or until softened. Drain the potatoes and add to the pan.
Pour over the cream and cook gently for 3 minutes, stirring. Season with salt and pepper.
Yum, it was good!
I've started walking to work. It's a nice 30 minutes or so in the cool part of the day, and I can mostly avoid busier streets so it's quiet. I may not bea ble to get rid of this prodigious gut, but I can get my gimply old legs back into shape.
The party/gallery opening was lots of fun! Thanks to everyone who made it out, and apologies to everyone who got lost trying to find the place.... Aki had a great time mounting guard over the gate, I took a lot of photos (will post some when I have them read into my laptop) and made him some good chicken wings. I took a big bag of my castings to give away and stuck them up on a cork-board, at Gary's suggestion I put up a tin can for "donations to the Metal Fund". I don't know how many were taken, but I collected over $30, didn't expect that! I split the take with Aki since the more popular pins were of his design (the Eskimo Astronaut, the Wounded Fandango Man, etc.).
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Date: 2005-04-28 06:16 pm (UTC)congrats on yr opening!
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Date: 2005-04-28 06:44 pm (UTC)I think the gallery will have a lot more events in future.
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Date: 2005-04-28 06:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-28 06:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-28 07:08 pm (UTC)We were looking forward to coming but a good friend's going-away party overlapped. Now he is gone. Alas.
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Date: 2005-04-28 08:42 pm (UTC)But there are other parties in your future, I sense....
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Date: 2005-04-28 09:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-28 10:47 pm (UTC)Tonight it's Bacon-Pineapple Stir Fry!
serves: 4
cooking time: approximately 10 minutes
per portion: 400 calories
Ingredients
350g (12 oz)unsmoked lean back bacon rashers, de-rinded, trimmed and cut into 2.5cm (1") pieces
1 x 5ml (1 tsp) oil
1 carrot
1 green pepper, seeded and cut into strips
100g (4oz) beansprouts
227g (7oz) can pineapple pieces in natural juices, juice reserved
Sauce
1 x 15ml sp (1 tbsp) tomato ketchup
1 x 5ml sp (1 tsp) malt vinegar
1 x 5ml sp (1 tsp) clear honey
2 x 5ml sp (1 tsp) cornflour
Method
in a wok or large frying pan, heat the oil . Add the bacon and cook for 3-4 mins, drain off any excess liquid.
add carrot and pepper and cook for 2 mins ; add beansprouts and pineapple pieces.
mix together reserved pineapple juice with the sauce ingredients and pour into the wok
stirfry for 2-3 minutes until the ingredients are coated in the sauce
serve with rice or noodles.
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Date: 2005-04-28 10:50 pm (UTC)I'm having...dunno yet. Corn?