Happy Chinese New Year Tomahawk steak with mushrooms, and green and gold vegetables Show notes at https://yumlum.co/38EPq9u Year of the rat Dedicated to the water rats of Belconnen, Canberra. Happy Chinese New Year or Happy Lunar New Year. It’s the year of the rat and I’m a rat according to the Chinese Zodiac. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/randomyummy/message ..read more

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Sous vide scotch fillet steak with avocado, cherry tomatoes, and sour cream Show notes at https://yumlum.co/31APDdF Ingredients Scotch fillet steak Garlic Butter Black pepper Iodised salt Avocado Cherry tomatoes Sour cream Instructions Season the scotch fillet steak with iodised salt. Seal in a vacuum bag. Cook sous vide at 57 °C for 2 hours. Remove the steak from the vacuum bag and pat it dry with a paper towel. Heat up a cast-iron skillet and sear the steak with butter and garlic. Season the cooked steak liberally with black pepper while the steak rests. Serve the steak with an avoca ..read more

I made my first pizza dough tonight Show notes at https://yumlum.co/2BFJJge Ingredients Pizza dough 1½ cups warm water 1 pinch caster sugar 2 teaspoons dried yeast 4 cups plain flour 1 teaspoon salt ¼ cup olive oil Pizza topping Salami Tomato paste Dried basil Bocconcini Mushrooms Instructions In a glass mixing bowl add the water, sugar, and yeast. The sugar is optional but provides fuel for the yeast to consume as part of the blooming fermentation. Whisk the suspension of yeast and allow the yeast to bloom. In another glass ..read more

Oven cooked pork belly and pressure cooker cabbage Show notes https://yumlum.co/2ZaEiOe Ingredients Pork belly strips Drumhead cabbage Red cabbage Hoisin sauce Black bean sauce Vegetable stock Instructions Heat an oven to 200 °C. Dry and season the pork belly strips with salt. Put the strips into the oven for 40 minutes. Cut the cabbage into thin strips and put into a pressure cooker with the sauces and stock and cook for 10 minutes. Pour the cabbage and broth into a bowl. Dice the cooked pork and add it on top of the cabbage. Eat with chopsticks. Thoughts on the meal I had a pretty g ..read more

Pressure cooker minced beef and pork belly with fried noodles and kale sprouts Show notes at https://yumlum.co/3dp1Iod Ingredients Beef mince Pork belly Hoisin sauce Noodles Kale sprouts Instructions Put some beef mince and diced pork belly into a pressure cooker vessel along with a squirt of hoisin sauce and a cup of water. Cook for 15 minutes While the pressure cooker is on put some 2-minute noodles into a bowl with some kale spouts and add boiling water to soften the noodles. Drain the water from the noodles and kale sprouts and transfer the noodles and kale sprouts to a frying pan with ..read more

Pressure cooker curry chicken wings and vegetables Show notes at https://yumlum.co/2BwWAkK There's nothing pretty about this meal, in fact, it's pretty ugly. Ugly but delicious. This is a meal for microbiologists. I bought a packet of chicken wings two weeks ago and split them into two lots and vacuum-packed each lot. I ate the first batch a couple of days after the purchase date. Tonight's lot found its way to the back of the refrigerator and I forgot about them. While the refrigeration and vacuum packing assists in inhibiting bacterial growth, it was probably a bit too long. I didn't want t ..read more

Pan-fried crispy skin salmon and balsamic vegetables Show notes at https://yumlum.co/2NftLMq Ingredients Salmon (skin on) Balsamic vinegar Leftover cooked mixed vegetables Queensland nut oil Iodised salt Black pepper Instructions Heat an oven to 200 °C. Put some leftover cooked mixed vegetables (leeks, spring onions, carrots, celery, and broccolini) onto a baking sheet and drizzle some balsamic vinegar over the top. Put the vegetables into the oven and cook for 15 minutes. Once the vegetables are cooked, heat up a cast-iron skillet. Rub Queensland nut oil over the salmon and seaso ..read more

Reverse seared bone-in rib-eye steak with rocket salad Show notes at https://yumlum.co/2V4Rgfh I bought some steak so I could have a bit leftover for lunches this week. Ingredients Bone-in rib-eye steak 363 grams at $AUD32/kilogram ($AUD11.62) Salted butter Garlic Dried Italian herbs Rocket leaves Red onion Cherry tomatoes Lime juice Olive oil Instructions Dry brine the steak on a rack in the refrigerator overnight. Melt some butter with microwave radiation. Crush a clove of garlic with a cook's knife and then after removing the 'paper' chop the garlic finely. Whisk in the garlic and some d ..read more

Crumbed, nutted, and beaten rump steak with rocket salad after watching Jamie Oliver cook crumbed and beaten chicken breast Show notes at https://yumlum.co/3117VUQ  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/randomyummy/message ..read more