Tag: Speck

  • Poached eggs and speck on low carbohydrate high fibre and protein bread

    Poached eggs and speck on low carbohydrate high fibre and protein bread

    It’s Sunday evening of an eventful weekend. A lot has happened. I thought something relatively simple would be good. I poached some eggs, fried some speck, and enjoyed them on some low carbohydrate high protein and fibre bread.

  • Lux congee

    Lux congee

    Last week I concocted a congee with Italian Arborio rice and tri-colour quinoa. I used pulled chicken thigh meat and bacon as the meat. Tonight, I have pulled beef short rib and Speck for lux congee. Ingredients Beef short rib fingers (3) Diced Speck (100 g) Dried anchovies (1 handful) Italian arborio rice (1 cup)…

  • Fried rice with pork three-ways

    Fried rice with pork three-ways

    Fried rice with pork three-ways Ingredients Pork belly Long grain rice Chilli Chinese sausage (lup chong) Speck (smoked pork belly) Spring onions Red onion Frozen peas Soy sauce Marmalade Cooking sherry Queensland nut oil Iodised salt Black pepper Instructions Cook rice in the morning and refrigerate. Slice the lup chong. Dice the speck. Cook the…

  • Speck and mushy peas

    Speck and mushy peas

    I need to clean out my freezer and refrigerator of bits and pieces. I had some speck, some baby green peas, some onions, mushrooms, and a handful of cherry tomatoes on the cusp of blooming some mould. Speck is smokey bacon and sold as a block rather than rashers. I had an open packet after…

  • Lentils à la Dijonnaise (mustard and speck lentils)

    Lentils à la Dijonnaise (mustard and speck lentils)

    You can find the full recipe at Yummy Lummy. Ingredients 300 grams of green lentils 1 litre of tap water One carrot (sliced) One onion (halved) Two cloves One sprig of thyme Two bay leaves One clove of garlic 150 grams of smoked speck Two tablespoons Dijon mustard salt and pepper to season One nudge…

  • Oven cooked speck with steamed egg and wilted spinach served with Nespresso™ coffee

    Oven cooked speck with steamed egg and wilted spinach served with Nespresso™ coffee

    This morning I woke up and looked in the fridge and spied a block of speck. For breakfast, I’m eating a block of pig fat and I couldn’t be happier 😃🐖

  • Prawn scallop and speck fried cauliflower rice with mushrooms

    Prawn scallop and speck fried cauliflower rice with mushrooms

    Tonight’s blog post on Yummy Lummy features a prawn scallop and speck fried cauliflower rice with mushrooms recipe.

  • Roast chicken and frozen vegetables

    Roast chicken and frozen vegetables

    I had a piece of dry brined chicken thigh in the refrigerator and some frozen vegetables I needed to finish off.

  • What I ate Christmas 2019

    What I ate Christmas 2019

    Christmas 2019 I ate well today. Breakfast My standard breakfast of a steamed egg and wilted spinach. Lunch Lunch was an extravaganza of roast turkey with cranberry jelly and gravy, ham and hot English mustard, a spanner crab, mango and avocado salad, plus roast vegetables. It was superb. There were also smoked salmon blinis for…