Pork and doùfu for breakfast today. I have
the recipe reasonably repeatable now. But maybe it's too much. How much do I need for
breakfast? 180 g rice (like today) or between 150 and 180 g of noodles. Meat (“protein”)?
Typically 90 to 120 g. Here I had 60 g of pork, 110 g of doùfu. And 40 g of bean sauce.
Does that add up? In any case, I think less would be good. Fixed.
ALDI have a competition running:
send in a photo of a receipt, and have a chance to win a holiday cruise.
For each $30 spent you receive one chance to win. Does that mean that you can submit a $100
receipt for three entries? And what date must they have? We have ALDI receipts going back
18 years. That could amount to quite
a few entries.
But we don't really want a holiday cruise, and in any case we're missing one of the
requirements for entry:
Yvonne bought a whole lot of asparagus last week, and we have
only eaten some of it. And of course she cut off the last woody bit, so I thought of a way
to use it up for breakfast. How about some fake noodle dish? It was abuout time for the
Shandong noodles.
Something like a fake phat si-io?
Ended up with this recipe:
quantity
ingredient
step
50 g
beef (“sizzle” steak)
1
garlic, light soya, oyster sauce to marinate
1
10 g
ginger
2
10 g
prawn paste
2
15 g
garlic
2
1
Thai chili (3 g)
2
100 g
egg white
3
30 g
asparagus ends
4
50 g
snow peas
4
40 g
prawns (4-5 g each)
5
100 g
chicken broth
6
16 g
light soya sauce
6
16 g
vinegar
6
20 g
fish sauce
6
8 g
cornflour
6
110 g
Shandong noodles
7
How was it? Unbalanced. I forget why I put in the chicken broth, but it didn't improve
things. The egg white was an afterthought: leftovers from Yvonne's mayonnaise, which uses only yolks. And
there was so much stuff there that I didn't taste the aparagus! There was also so much
stuff that I barely finished it, and I stayed anorectic for the whole day.
This morning's breakfast brings me back to another issue: how much do I need for breakfast?
Today for the most obvious time I had too much, and it would help explain my gradual
increase in weight, now just shy of 90 kg (BMI 23.9). Today the initially
unexpected 100 g of egg white didn't help, but I'm beginning to come to the conclusion that
I should eat:
Ingredient
Weight
“Protein”
150 g
Vegetables
80 g
Starch
180 g
(after cooking)
The starch is typically rice or noodles, each representing round 60 g dry ingredient. The
quantities will require refinement.
Out with a macro lens (30 mm f/3.5
M.Zuiko) to take some closer photos of the Disa bracteata that I had found
yesterday. I couldn't find it! But Yvonne found one
for me. And I found another. I think they're both different plants. Here's the first:
But the big issue was the distance. The 30 mm can focus close enough to a 14×11 mm area,
far smaller than I need. But even for the plant I need to get very close near the ground.
The photo above was the closest I got, and it was cropped from this image:
For the first time I found a reason for a longer focal length lens. Next time I'll take the
M.Zuiko
Digital ED 60 mm f/2.8.
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