Bulgur salad, Elvis Burger and Chicken Skin Tacos

Bulgur, white beans and tomato salad

Food Diary (May 10, 2011)

Breakfast: Rolled oats with raisins, toasted coconut, sunflower seeds and flax seeds

Lunch: Bulgur, white beans and tomato salad with chili apple cider vinegar dressing

Dinner: Caramelised onion omelet with flaxseed rye sourdough

Baking/sweets: Coconut cornflake cookies

Caramelised onion omelet probably sounds good. It tasted OK, though not as good as it sounds. Onion omelet where the onions are just cooked is far more delicious. 

Today's Favourite Photo

Source: The Hungry Cow

Elvis Burger - pork and bacon patty, bananas and peanut butter with honey oat buns 

Today’s Favourite Blog

Source: Simply Recipes

Todays favourite blog features an ‘interesting’ and perhaps sinfully delicious recipe for crispy chicken skin tacos with habanero salsa. That’s right, only skin, no meat, almost a vegetarian dish. In case you used to throw away chicken skin now there is an interesting use for it. It is probably not as sinful as it sounds. If the fat is rendered and not used, the remainder is mostly collagen (I think) and this is healthy to eat. Of course some fat will remain so you can balance it by skipping butter from your morning toast, or baking cookies with oil!

This is my favourite post because it brings back memories. Until some years ago you could buy turkey tails in Samoa and Tonga. I presume the leftover, the rest of the bird, remained in the US. BBQ stalls all over the islands sold turkey tails, and it was quite popular. When I was there I had to try it, after many beers of course. As expected the tail was fatty and I think there were traces of meat. The governments in those countries banned turkey tail imports some years ago so if you have been seeing turkeys with tails in the US in the last few years now you know why.