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Meat Recipe #16 – Bacon, Leek & Potato Soup

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Growing your own veggies and herbs is great, and they certainly without fail always taste far superior to what you buy in the supermarkets. But of course, that then means you have to find a use for them when ready.

I like growing leeks as I always pass on a few to my sister, but I have limited recipes that actually use leeks (I sometimes get flummoxed by vegetables you can’t roast).  Out of the recipes I do have, this one is far and away the best, assisted largely by the fact it has a lot of pig in it.  So without further ado: Big Angry Trev’s Bacon, Leek & Potato Soup

 

Ingredients

  • 8 rashers of bacon, chopped
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 3 leeks, sliced
  • 3 medium potatoes, peeled and diced
  • 1.5L hot vegetable stock
  • 150ml thickened cream
  • Fresh parsley
  • Cracked pepper

 

Method

  • Chop up bacon, fry up half until crispy and put to one side
  • Put stock in pot, heat but do not bring to boil.
  • Chop up onion, sauté it with remaining bacon in butter until golden.
  • Add sliced leeks and diced potatoes to pan, cover and cook on very low heat for 5 minutes, shaking pan occasionally.
  • Take bacon & vegetables from pan and stock from pot and combine in large pot, bring to boil.
  • Simmer concoction for 20 minutes covered, stirring occasionally.
  • Let mix cool. Take mix and put in food blender.  Puree mix.
  • Pour mix back into warm pan, slowly add cream and stir until warm.
  • Put into bowls, top with fresh parsley, crispy bacon and cracked pepper.

Enjoy!

 

Meat Recipie #2 – Big Angry Trev’s Home Made Chicken Soup – Easy Version

Recipe – Curried Duck Eggs

 

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Burger Review #7: Southern Style Chicken Burger

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Yea-haw! Fried chicken! Get me some grits, a banjo and a bottle of moonshine and I’m in hog heavan, boy-howdy!

I love fried chicken. But so few places serve it these days because it is so unhealthy. You can get crumbed chicken anywhere, but not it’s fried friend. You can always go to a KFC I guess, but whereas it was my favourite food as a teenager I can’t stand the oily filth that it is has degenerated into over the decades.

So I was pretty chuffed when I took the family out for a relaxing lunch on a surprisingly mild winters day to The Globe Hotel in Rylstone and saw on their lunch menu Southern Style Chicken Burger.

This was a good sized burger with a very big chicken breast inside. And with burgers, like with all facets of life, the bigger the breast the better! This one certainly added to the height of the burger considerably.

There was a bit much slaw on the bottom for my liking but it really wasn’t too much and between it and the crispiness of the chicken it meant this burger had a lot of crunch value.

There was quite a bit of bacon popped in to the burger, and although it was quite fatty it was still pretty nice. There was your requisite tomato and onion, some cheese the menu didn’t mention, but it was the ‘special sauce’ that was the real stand out – for both good and ill – of the condiments.

It was hard to pin down what the special sauce actually was. Something like a sweetened ranch dressing but with a little bit of spice thrown in to give it a kick. While it was really nice and added some much needed moisture to what would otherwise be a dry burger, it was it’s distribution that let it down. On one side of the burger there was hardly any, leaving you wanting more. On the other side of the burger there was way too much, so much so you couldn’t taste anything else. In the middle it was perfect. Obviously whoever made the burger squirted it on top of the chicken without regard for evenness, which really detracted around the outer edges from what was otherwise a damn tasty feed.

So if you find yourself at The Globe and see it on the menu, I heartily recommend you give this burger a try. At $16 it’s not particularly cheap, but given its size and the amount of chips that come with it you will definitely leave full. Just hope they get that sauce distribution right.

 

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Burger Review #6: The E-I-E-I-O Burger

Burger Review #5:  The BAB Burger

Meat Review: Rump & Ribs in Rylstone

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Burger Review #6: The E-I-E-I-O Burger

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I am a total fan of combining meats.  Despite my rather disastrous ’14 meats stew’ I tried to make a decade ago, I persevere with trying different combos to see what fleshes of what animals will complement each other on the palette.

Given this carnivorous mindset, I was therefore very happy in my wanderings to come across the E-I-E-I-O Burger.

The meats that dreams are made of…

 

That’s right – deep-fried chicken, double beef patties, double bacon and triple cheese!   These people don’t muck about! Old McDonald’s farm must be looking pretty sparse after they made a few of these babies! The ingredients were all done to perfection: the deep-fried chicken was not oily like it had just come out of a KFC or something, the patties were big and juicy and definitely home made in the good way, the bacon was plentiful, the onions was grilled excellently, the lettuce was thankfully negligible and the tomato was, due to special request, non-existent.

I was very pleased that they remembered to leave the tomato off as so many places either refuse, or otherwise forget, to make any alterations one asks for (I’m looking at you BAB Burger makers).  I’m not sure what the special sauce was except that it certainly shat all over whatever it is they use for a Big Mac.  It had a slightly smoky flavour with just the right amount of bite and it was that plentiful that I found myself having to use a napkin on both my hands and mouth after each bite.  Some may see that as a negative – I see it as a sign of a chef who isn’t stingy!

You magnificent Frankenstien’s Monster of a burger you!

What can I say – to quote Mr Jackson This was a damn tasty burger!  I mean it was REALLY friggin good!  Unfortunately I didn’t have time to savor it properly as we were running late for Transformers 5 so had to gobble it.  Given its size (much bigger than it appears in the above photo) this still took me 5 minutes of solid mastication.  At $18 and considering it does not come with any sides whatsoever its not the cheapest burger but it’s that good I would happily lay out the cash again.  If you find yourself in Greensborough Plaza in Melbourne then stop by Flame 400 near the cinema and gorge your tastebuds on a burger that has cow, chook and pig all under the same bun –  you deserve it!

 

Eaten this burger before or have another one you think worthy of mention?  Would love to hear about it in the comments section below!

 

OTHER BURGER REVIEWS:

The BAB Burger

Pulled BBQ Wagyu Burger

Cheeseword Cheeseburger

Tradie Burger & Truckie Burger

The TNT Burger

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Meat Recipe #4 – His and Hers Bangers and Mash

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The culinary balancing act – tis a tightrope that any man who does his share of the cooking at home must walk. On the one hand you need to balance the needs of your wife or girlfriend (never invite both to the same meal – it can only lead to disaster) has in regards to dietary requirements against your need to not eat a meal that tastes like a rabbit took a fart in a meadow.  This is not an easy task.

However it is doable.  Today I’m going to give you an example using a very simple dish which you can then apply the principles of to other meals.  Today we will look at  Big Angry Trev’s His & Hers’  Bangers and Mash!

 

You will need:

*Four sausages

*2 rashers of bacon

*1 egg – duck for preference

*Onion Gravy mix

*Frozen Veggies – peas, corn & carrot

*4 potatoes

*Milk, grated cheddar cheese, butter

*A handful of parsley

*Salt & Pepper

*Cooking oil

 

Step 1: Boil the water, peel the potatoes and pop them in.  Put the sausages on to fry in first frypan on a very low heat.  Boil the kettle.

Step 2: Put the frozen veggies in a microwave safe container.  Slice bacon rashers in half.  Shred all parsley bar one sprig. Pop gravy mix in mixing jug.

Step 3: Flip sausages.  Put oil in second frypan and put bacon on lowest possible heat.

Step 4: Drain potatoes.  Add milk, butter, shredded parsley, salt, pepper and a handful of grated cheddar cheese.  Mash the hell outta it!  Flip bacon

Step 5: Remove sausages, add in duck egg.  Remove bacon.  Take one dollop of mashed spud and separate from the rest.  Put rest of mashed potato in frypan and crank that sucker up!

Step 6: Mix gravy.  Nuke veggies.   Finish frying egg.

 

Presentation

Her Dish

Hers…

Place small dollop of mashed potato on plate with one sliver of bacon artfully placed in a semi-circle against it.  Place sausage apart from bacon, add the merest hint of onion gravy to the top.  Take frozen vegetables and create an artful semi-circle on far side of plate.  Finish off with a delightful sprig of fresh parsley for effect.  Perhaps even provide a napkin and some subtle instrumental dining music as she partakes of your offering.

 

Your Dish

HIS!

Fry the f*ck out of the mashed spud and dump it on ya plate.  Stick the three snags beside it.  Chuck the bacon on the spud and the fried egg on the snags.  Dump all the gravy on.  Stick the veggies in a clump on the side to be eaten so the roughage means you can actually manage to take a shit the next day.  Make sure the TV has the subtitles on so you can read the footy scores from the table while you shovel down ya tucker.

 

And there you go, a new take on a simple dish that will satisfy both you and your good lady.  Yes, you will die a lot sooner than her of a heart attack, but you will have enjoyed your life a lot more.

 

Bon appé-f*ckin-tit!

 

Got a different take on this classic recipe?  Would love to read it in the comments section below!