Chip crusted eye fillet steak with mustard potato mash
You can find the full recipe and background at Yummy Lummy.

Chip crusted eye fillet steak with mustard potato mash
You can find the full recipe and background at Yummy Lummy.
For the full recipe including the backstory to this meal, please check out Gary makes eggplant parmigiana over on Yummy Lummy!
Some new readers here may not know, the main purpose of this blog is to direct readers to my food blog so I can post links to Facebook. For reasons beyond my comprehension, Facebook has blocked all links to Yummy Lummy. I don’t know why.
Saturday night dinner is sous vide eye fillet steak with potato gem poutine (provolone and smoked cheddar cheeses and gravy) plus mushrooms and crispy Brussels sprouts.
I was chatting with a friend today about my personality.
Introverted | – | 99% |
Observant | – | 56% |
Feeling | – | 51% |
Judging | – | 51% |
Turbulent | – | 63% |
People who really know me won’t be surprised by how introverted I am. I live alone and for now, I’m happy about that. I enjoy my own company. I’ve lived a full life, I’ve been married, I’m divorced, I’ve learnt a lot about myself, what makes me happy, what upsets me, what unsettles me, and what I think I want for my future.
One thing I know about my future, is food will be a feature. Cooking and eating. Perhaps even growing some of my food. Growing up as a little boy, my maternal grandfather spent long periods of time living with us. Mum was pretty ill when she was pregnant with my youngest brother. She’d already had two very difficult births. My grandfather converted our backyard into a market garden. I don’t have a green thumb and the thought of gardening fills me with horror, but I do have fond memories of picking and eating fresh vegetables. Fresh fruit and vegetables taste so much better than what you get in a supermarket.
Faith will also feature more in my future. I’ve been in the wilderness for a long time and around this time last year, a friend started a good thing in my life. It’s been a year of revelation and self reflection and growth.
Leftover roast beef with spaghetti and tomato sauce for want of a better name!
Last night I made dinner with a slow cook family roast (beef).
Tonight I’m using some of the leftover meat with spaghetti and a tomato sauce.
Slow cook Family Roast
I wasn’t sure what to cook today. It’s a colder day and overcast with some poor weather in Sydney.
At Coles, I saw some short ribs, and then I saw what I assume is an eye fillet roll.
Meat instructions slow cook family roast
Vegetable instructions for the slow cook family roast
Plating up instructions for your slow cook family roast
On Saturday night, I cooked a pork knuckle for dinner and had enough leftover for four more meals. Here is what I did with that one pork knuckle for readers on a budget and cooking for one.
Pork knuckle with crackling on potato mash with green vegetables.
Laksa-flavoured pork knuckle curry
Pork knuckle meat with cherry tomatoes and cucumber.
Oven-cooked laksa-flavoured pork knuckle curry
Pork knuckle meat with cherry tomatoes and cucumber.
Pork knuckle meat with a tomato-based sauce
Laksa-flavoured leftover pork knuckle meat with coconut creamed rice and a side of broccoli
I’m using a pre-cooked pork knuckle from Coles.
While the Coles product is pre-cooked, to get the crackling crispy and crunchy it needs some more cooking.
I went with this because during the week I had a lovely pork belly dinner but the crackling was disappointing. It was soft and limp. I needed some crispy crunchy crackling stat im.
Fusion duck and penne pasta
Rather than go and buy noodles, I thought my duck and laksa-paste flavoured soup would work just as well with penne pasta.
Penne pasta
Duck breast
Meal preparation
How to eat this
How do you feel about combining a laksa flavour with penne pasta?
Tonight I made sous vide duck breast with lentils, broccolini, and potato mash. For the full recipe and story go to Yummy Lummy.