ltmurnau | A trove! A trove, I tell you!

Yesterday 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.).