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Cooked up some Lobster Mac n Cheese tonight for dinner, had a couple nice IPAs with

 

Greetings, Cantina mates!

This seemed like the type of recipe some of you would like, so I thought I'd share it here. Very simple. Very easy. Not the healthiest on its own, but if you eat some vegetables or a salad and use this recipe in moderation, you'll be okay. I used it as my post-workout meal tonight. lol, cause it's got lotsa good stuff for testosterone.

So what is it? 3 eggs, 2 potatoes (diced and cooked in olive oil), and a bacon-wrapped smoked sausage.

Nutritional info...

Calories: 1170 (YES, it's up there...but like I said, I was using it post-gym. I don't eat this all the time).
Protein: 51 g
Carbs: ~60 g (it's good carbs though—not sugary refined crud)
Fat: 65 g (kinda hefty, so again, balance it with healthier food and drink plenty of water)

So here we go....

You will need the following:

2 medium potatoes
3 eggs
2-3 slices bacon
6 oz pre-cooked smoked beef sausage
olive oil
salt and pepper

Potatoes:

• Dice your potatoes on a cutting board
• Pour 1 tbsp of olive oil into a pan and let it heat on medium for about 3 minutes
• Drop in the diced potatoes, moving them around with a spatula occasionally
• After about 10-15 minutes (or whenever they look ready), sprinkle on some salt and pepper (go light on the salt, though...the sausage and bacon give enough)
• Put potatoes on a plate and leave aside

Bacon-sausage:

• wrap 2-3 slices of uncooked bacon around your cooked sausage (I only used 2 slices of bacon, but you may want 3 to fill things out)
• be ready to drop the bacon-wrapped sausage into the pan as soon as the potatoes are removed
• it should need to cook about 10 minutes. The bacon will visibly cook, so leave it in, turning frequently, till it reaches how you like your bacon
• When finished, add the bacon-sausage to the plate of potatoes

Eggs:

• remove the bacon grease from the pan and add another tbsp of olive oil (this is healthier than what I did...I just used the bacon grease, but I wish I hadn't)
• drop in 3 eggs
• Let cook for a few minutes (again, it's up to how you like them)
• Add eggs to the plate

And you're done!

I know this is a heavy food, but if you're into fitness, it's pretty awesome, or if you just want some breakfast-comfort food.

This is my horrible phone picture of it (I kinda mangled the eggs at the end, haha!):

 

Former Greywalker and I went to this quaint little Croatian resturand called Grandfather's Dream. We started with a plate of assorted dried meats and cheeses, with bottle of white wine. For the main course she had the Octopus salade and I had the grilled eel. The Eel was very good, it's oily and has a similar taste to catfish.

 

Wow, that meal looks amazing.

Mmmmmm, eeeeeel.
My last eel meal was much more crude but still delicious.
Caught on a hand-line and cooked on fire stones in an earth pit we dug with some fresh manuka branches for smokiness.
Yum.

Be sure to give a shout out to Greywalker for me next time you touch base.
I was wondering where she's been - it's not the same around these parts without her quirky input!

 

Eel isn't for everyone i suppose, but I really liked it. Greywalker says hello back. It's nice to know that she is missed.

 

Greywalker and I made our first dish together. One that she had already posted before, but it is so good it needs emphasising. Bruschette, red wine, sardines, and Brie. And for dessert, Moët Champagne and Strawberries.

 

Oh Yeah !!
Sardines !
Garlic bread !
Cheese !

Yum !!

 

you guys need to stop making me cheat on my diet

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greywalker?

 

Yeah you know Greywalker, orange and white, one of a kind.

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Breakfast at plitvice lakes hotel.

 

For dinner we had prosciutto sheep cheese, carpacceo, spit Lamb, and pancakes with creme and jam for dessert.

 

i dont see any orange

 

I guess it's a greyish orange.

 

Yesterday we made a delicious Croatian style pizza. With home made sauce, fresh mozzarella and buffalo mozzarella, mushrooms and prosciutto.

5 minutes before it was fully cooked we added a raw egg to the center, and riccola for garnish. Popped ot back in the oven.