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Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-07 15:05:32
September 07 2009 15:03 GMT
#1
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What happens when Plexa tries to make lunch?


I'm not much of a lunch person. I really really don't like sandwiches which makes lunches quite difficult. Typically much lunches consist of bits and pieces of food that I just happen to have available. For instance, I usually just eat a pie for lunch when I'm at uni since its relatively inexpensive and I usually skip lunch all together when I'm at home.

Actually, I'm not much of a breakfast person either (since I'm usually rushing out the door or simply sleeping through it). So occasionally I go days without eating anything for breakfast and lunch. Since I'm trying to get better (see my last blog for details), I figured its about time I reintroduced breakfast and lunch back into my regular diet.

Breakfast was easy to rectify -
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This is what God's eat for breakfast


Lunch, however, is a lot more difficult =[

My gf is currently studying to become a food technologist. This mean that she develops products for mass production to fill gaps in the market. This include developing completely new ideas or simply taking something that exists already and cutting costs, making it healthier or adapting it to a new target market. It's actually quite an interesting thing to get involved in

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This was her first project - developing healthier waffles

At the moment she is working on developing a sports drink to "fix" cramping. i.e. you cramp, you drink the drink, and the cramp is alleviated. She has a report due at the end of this week and thus has been working like crazy to finish it.

Last year, however, she developed sandwhich fillers - a product missing on the NZ shelves (but available in the UK). They were really quite awesome; she developed a bacon salsa sandwich filler which tasted phenomenal. So I annoyed her about it after my colonoscopy and she agreed to make it for me since I was sick (I usually do all the cooking).

She made it. It was incredible. And I finished it within 3 days ... Since I had ran out - I demanded that I get more! But she instead told me to make it myself since she was busy with her own work. So, with her assistance, Plexa begun the journey on recreating some sandwich fillers so he can stop skipping lunch!! I decided to make two - one tandoori chicken and one bacon salsa.

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The journey begins

The Bacon Salsa Sandwich Filler

I can't remember the recipe exactly, but if anyone is interested I can nag my gf about it and get it off her. Here's a rough list of ingredients;
- Tomatoes
- Capsicum
- Red Onion
- Vinegar
- Bacon
- Olive Oil
- Coriander
- Corn Flour

So first things first. I needed to get the skin off of the tomatoes. The trick to doing thing, if you didn't already know, is to cut a cross at the bottom of the tomato then pour boiling water over the tomato. After a while the skin starts to shrivel and then you can remove the skin easily. Once the skin was off, the tomatoes needed to be de-seeded.

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Plexa deseeding the tomatoes

Yup, so after a while all the tomatoes were seedless and skinless. Next I prepared some capsicum for dicing and cut the bacon into sizable bits. Bacon is awesome, so I added way more than my gf did last time ^^

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Tomatoes, Capsicum and Bacon!!

Next on the list was actually dicing up the tomatoes and capsicum. Dicing the tomatoes was pretty annoying since its had to get a regular shape, and you also have to be careful not to squish them all up. However, the capsicum was easy to dice since they retain their shape hence I can show you a pretty picture of diced capsicum

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Dicing the tomato

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Diced capsicum

Once both were diced, I chucked them both in a bowl and mixed them up realllll good

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Tomatoes and capsicum all nice and diced

Next on the agenda was the BACON. So I gathered up the chopped bacon and threw it in a pan and began cooking it. My gf smelt that bacon was cooking, and being the bacon lover that she is, came over and took over the bacon station T_T

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Neala cooking bacon

With her cooking the bacon, I now had to face the greatest enemy of any chef. Well, second greatest enemy - ONIONS (chilli is worse to prepare )

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The enemy

I charged in, head first - dicing as systematically and as quickly as I could. It wasn't long before my eyes started getting destroyed by the onion. But I pressed on, and in the end that motherfucker got what was coming to him.

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gg

The supermarket we went to earlier didn't have coriander so instead I turned to butchering my Italian Parsley plant to replace it. What makes it different form normal parsley? I have no idea. But now my plant has a brand new hairstyle haha. Anyway, I diced that shit up as well then added both the onion and parsley to the bowl with the tomato and capsicum in it. The bacon was set aside on a plate with a paper towel to soak the oil up.

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This is me just starting to cut up the parsley

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Everything gets mixed up!

Next I needed to add the oil and the vinegar. I have no idea what the correct amount I needed to add was, but I'm pretty sure I got it wrong. Regardless, I added it to the bowl and gave it another good mix.

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Oil and Vinegar were next

Next I mixed about 3 tsp of corn flour with 3 tsp of water to dissolve it and set it aside. I then added everything in the bowl to a saucepan and brought it to the boil. I kinda left it too long and it melted the tomatoes T_T, but nevertheless it boiled! Once it was boiling I added not the corn flour solution and bacon to the mixture

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The bacon goes in!

After returning the mixture to the boil I transferred it out of the saucepan and into a bowl to cool down. The bacon salsa sandwhich filler was complete!!

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The sandwich filler is completed!! Loving the clean stove top btw


Tandoori Chicken Sandwhich Filler

This was an alternate sandwich filler created for Neala's project last year. It wasn't as good since she couldn't figure out how to get the taste right - but the original version using "Chicken Tonight" was pretty decent, so I decided to go with that.

Firstly, 500g of Chicken breast needed to be poached. So once the water was brought to the boil, I threw the chicken into the pot and 30mins later it was cooked! I replaced the boiling water with cold water so the Chicken could cool down so I could proceed to the next step.

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This is what poached chicken looks like

The next step was incredibly painful. I had to shred the chicken. I don't know any tricks to shredding, so I did it all by hand... and that was a complete disaster. It took about 40-50 minutes to shred the chicken =[ what a waste of time.

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Shredded chicken - almost an hours work right here

And now for the easy part haha. Next I got my jar of Chicken Tonight and opened it up. Added some yogurt and mint to it for flavor and spice control and then threw it into the pan to heat it through.

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I feel like Chicken Tonight

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Heating the mixture through

And viola! Tandoori Chicken Sandwich Filler complete!!

And thus, I now have enough good food for lunch for the next week!! (hopefully).

Aftermath

The stuff I made is no where near as good as the stuff Neala made for me. Mostly because I had the wrong herb and completely destroyed my tomatoes =[ Nevertheless, the result is edible and is still really tasty.

I learned my lesson though. Elves have no place trying to cook lunch - I'll leave that to the mrs.

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The finished product - yum yum!!
The left is the bacon salsa, the right is the tandoori chicken


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KinosJourney2
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Sweden1811 Posts
September 07 2009 15:12 GMT
#2
Yummy, looks delicious. Now i got hungry
ocho wrote: EDIT: NEVERMIND, THIS THING HAS APM TECHNOLOGY OMG
SiZ.FaNtAsY
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Korea (South)1497 Posts
September 07 2009 15:12 GMT
#3
Gonna try it myself tomorrow!
Karma is a bitch
Ilvy
Profile Joined September 2002
Germany2445 Posts
September 07 2009 15:15 GMT
#4
looks really good, too bad it takes long time to prepare and i would be starved to death :D
motbob
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States12546 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-07 15:24:10
September 07 2009 15:19 GMT
#5
I think you need a SlapChop® for those onions. Why do you want to work twice as hard???

EDIT: oh wait I think that quote is from the ShamWow commercial.
ModeratorGood content always wins.
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
September 07 2009 15:24 GMT
#6
On September 08 2009 00:15 Ilvy wrote:
looks really good, too bad it takes long time to prepare and i would be starved to death :D

haha the only thing which took ages was shredding the chicken T_T;; everything else didn't take that long at all. It's good that I made it though, since I can just drop a spoonful of whatever onto a piece of bread and BAM, theres lunch.
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Kletus
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada580 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-07 15:34:05
September 07 2009 15:33 GMT
#7
Looks really really good and now I'm hungry.

You mentioned that the tomatoes get kind of crushed when you cut them; I can't tell from the pictures but do you use a knife with a serrated edge? It works tons better for softer objects =).
Your resistance only serves to make my carapace harder.
konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66155 Posts
September 07 2009 15:33 GMT
#8
suddenly I'm hungry T____T

looks delicious!
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Tonkerchen
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
680 Posts
September 07 2009 15:34 GMT
#9
ah i really wish i could do some nice meals too...
have to start to learn it ... :D
cool pics!
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Cloud
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Sexico5880 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-09-07 15:43:39
September 07 2009 15:42 GMT
#10
Im interested in the bacon recipe. An hour to split the meat is way too long lol, doing it by hand is right but dont go thread by thread just press and pull a clump and a lot of threads will form.

The best way to have a breakfast or lunch is to cook the night before a lot (for the whole week) and just microwave it.
BlueLaguna on West, msg for game.
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
September 07 2009 15:45 GMT
#11
On September 08 2009 00:33 Kletus wrote:
Looks really really good and now I'm hungry.

You mentioned that the tomatoes get kind of crushed when you cut them; I can't tell from the pictures but do you use a knife with a serrated edge? It works tons better for softer objects =).
The knife wasn't serrated ;o that may have helped. The tomatoes getting semi-crushed didn't really matter in the end since I boiled them into a pulp T_T

On September 08 2009 00:42 Cloud wrote:
Im interested in the recipe. An hour to split the meat is way too long lol, doing it by hand is right but dont go thread by thread just press and pull a clump and a lot of threads will form.

The best way to have a breakfast or lunch is to cook the night before a lot (for the whole week) and just microwave it.
ohhh =/ i was pulling them apart strand by strand. Next time I'll try that haha

I'll get you that recipe when my gf wakes up
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s.a.y
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Croatia3840 Posts
September 07 2009 15:56 GMT
#12
that looks awesome.

I am not good with quotes
Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
16971 Posts
September 07 2009 15:56 GMT
#13
Do they really call peppers capsicum in NZ?
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Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
September 07 2009 16:00 GMT
#14
Yes they do empyrean
Administrator~ Spirit will set you free ~
Twilight Templar
Profile Joined April 2009
99 Posts
September 07 2009 16:05 GMT
#15
I don't post often, but these fillers look amazingly good.
dum dadi do dum dum dee do dee da
BookTwo
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
1985 Posts
September 07 2009 16:11 GMT
#16
I would not be able to do that. If I'm hungry, I'd eat the chicken raw.
Licmyobelisk
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Philippines3682 Posts
September 07 2009 16:28 GMT
#17
<3 Plexa, will show this to my woman and cook it for me! hahahahaha
I don't think I've ever wished my opponent good luck prior to a game. When I play, I play to win. I hope every opponent I ever have is cursed with fucking terrible luck. I hope they're stuck playing underneath a stepladder with a black cat in attendance a
movmou
Profile Joined September 2009
United States142 Posts
September 07 2009 16:44 GMT
#18
Mmmmm the end result looks very good. Nice write-up ^^
stanley_
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States816 Posts
September 07 2009 16:48 GMT
#19
pictures should be in every blog!
hoorah
Athos
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2484 Posts
September 07 2009 16:51 GMT
#20
Nice photography!

That looks very good and if I had more patience I would try to make it for myself.

Nice lady friend too.
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