Category: Orthorexia
Guy’s gotta eat.
(almost) zero carb pepperoni and bacon pizza
It’s been forever since I made a pizza, so here’s this year’s. Using the base from: Keto/Low-Carb Pizza Base This is about 1.5 teaspoons...
Tarakihi (NZ fish) crumbed fillets
My favourite fact about this fish is that it’s AKA Jackass Morwong: https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=jackass+morwong It’s a really flakey and semi-delicious fleshy thing, suits well to...
Mega beef n avocado n cheese n shrooms n onion burger, topped with a runny egg yolk, wrapped in lettuce
Now let’s wrap it in lettuce and try to eat the monolith. Gross, I know, but how satisfied do I look…
These pies are just so fucking good
Trisha’s Pies in Wellington. I’ve eaten many meat pies, these are the best.
Release the Kraken soup
I don’t know what happened. It was delicious. I upset some gods, but whatevs.
Slow cooked beef ribeye ribs in Mexican marinade
This slab was so big I took the meat off and parcel’d into their own steaks, and am cooking the bones on their own....
Convenimince, prawn skewers, sausage, parmesan
This stuff: –> http://ashsimmonds.com/2016/05/28/convenimince-prime-nz-angus-ground-mince-beef-by-green-meadows/
Convenimince – prime NZ Angus ground / mince beef by Green Meadows
It’s pretty good, mostly just a few flavour thingies in it, not much junk. Dunno what coconut sap is.
Wagyu beef burgers n onion
Really digging these patties – 99% grass-fed wagyu beef. Not ridiculously expensive either.
Savour & Spice – Mamma’s Mexican Marinade
Pretty decent. Nice Argentinian chimmichurri flavour with a citrus twist. Ingredients list nothing to obsess about.
Porkopalypse Now – kinda
Semi-decent rendition of this recipe I invented several years ago, which was the best pork meal I’ve ever had. Not as fall-apart as the...
Seafood medley n cream
Random seafood chunks is $17/kg, 300g of which with some white wine creamy garlic sauce makes an awesome budget seafood meal.
750g t-bone on the stove burner
Yeah, stupid idea, but had to be tried. Messy, but still fucking delicious.
L’Authentique chicken & bacon sausages, chicken nibbles
These snags are pretty expensive, I think they were NZ$12 for six/280g, but I like the cut of their gib. The taste was good...
Domino’s Pizza (Carb Backloading™)
Just got back from a 1.5 week roadtrip after a 16 hour ride. Blow me. Interesting side note – of a 68g/2.4oz piece of...
Egg yolks, beef bones and fat and gristle, bacon, chilli
400g Beef bones @ $6/kg, 4 egg yolks @ $0.80c ea.
Rump steak, avocado, cheese, shrooms
300g Rump @ $13/kg, half avocado @ $4 ea, 100g cheese @ $9/kg, 100g shrooms @ $15/kg?
JJ Murphy’s $17.50 500g Rump Steak
Frank got the bitch bubbles cos they were only $5 bucks. Love it when a hokey pub knows how to cook bleu. One beer...
Monsoon Poon – Firecracker Chicken – 3.5 plates
Another reddit meetup. The first two were delicious. The third was a bit uncomfortable. Halfway through the fourth I was nauseous and sweating and...
Chicken heart / giblet curry
With onion and courgette fried in beef drippings. And spinach wilted in white wine. Plus coconut cream. Dump in a shitload of tumeric. (or...
Fat bombs, with cashews
Lindt 85% Cocoa chocolate. Melt on super low heat. Whip the cream (step not shown). Splash of coconut essence. Couple dollops of coconut oil....
Best magnesium supplements in New Zealand
Type Elemental (%) Bioavailability (%) Carbonate 45 30 Chloride 12 ? Citrate 16 90 Glycinate 18 80 Hydroxide 42 ? Lactate 12 99 Malate...
Thirty Nine
Oz vs NZ – which bubbly is better with birthday breakfast oysters? pic.twitter.com/05WQhWH80V — Some Idiot actually (@AshSimmonds) October 3, 2015
Phallic processed meat
I’m staying in a hotel room in Thorndon and can’t cook anything, so basically living on stuff like this.
Cheap tomahawk ribeye steaks
Tomahawk steaks had no price sticker, I asked, he said "no idea, how's $7.50?", "Sold! Gimme both." pic.twitter.com/MevZySd0j7 — Some Idiot actually (@AshSimmonds) April...
Pulled pork belly leftovers
My housemate is a chef and they serve pulled pork, which is basically pork belly which has been slow-cooked over 24 hours and then...
Silverside – Leaving Kaikoura
Heading to ChCh, couldn’t find any other real food. So lean and dry – had to wash it down with vodka.
Pies – Kaikoura
After quite a while of almost strict ZC thought I could get away with some fucking delicious pies. Ouch – bloating and general malaise....
Jerky, bacon, eggs
Yeah, taken by potato. One of the best jerky’s I’ve ever had – from Butcher Boys in Nelson, NZ.
Hellers Country Pork Sausages – The Villa, Picton, NZ
I can only assume I utilised this BBQ for preparation of pictured sausages.
Pam’s Corned Beef
Popped the lid and it was squirting fat. Another one that’s a bit dry when eaten alone. Thankfully I had some aioli to back...
700g JJ Murphy’s rump steak Wednesday $15 special
First day back in Wellington, NZ. Great value and so what I needed.
Hellaby’s corned beef [review]
Thinking maybe I’ll travel the world doing tinned corned beef reviews… This stuff is nice enough, but it seems like all the fat has...
Golden Country Corned Beef #thuglyfe
Basically living on this stuff at the moment. It’s cheap-ish, 20% fat and 20% protein and basically zero carb – so wins on all...
A month of calorie counting
I’ve been recording absolutely eeevverything since 1th Feb. I initially started out intending to go hardcore ketovore after a couple months of laxness over...
Slab o’ scotch fillet, wood-fired steak, chimmichurri sauce, and seagull bro
These bad boys are going into the fridge like this with some salt on them to dry them out. The rest get individually wrapped....
Budget “Chamois” Scotch Fillet Steak
So I tried to recreate this steak as best I could the next night – except using a self-cut bit from a big slab...
Chamois Steak
God made you to be somebody very… delicious! Had heard of this so-called “Chamois” cut of steak from a friend who got it from...
The Blurgher – Beef, Bacon, Cheese, and drool
For some reason I was craving a Hungry Jacks/Burger King experience, but delete a few ingredients – such as anything that wasn’t animal based....
Oysters Florentine
Nothing better than some fresh oysters naturale with champagne on a lazy Sunday morning. Unfortunately the only oysters we had on hand were from...
Eye Fillet Steak with red wine jus and broccoli
http://highsteaks.com/forum/food-glorious-food/eye-fillet-steak-red-wine-jus-and-broccoli-99.0.html
Smoked Octopus
This is an amazing snack, way more tasty and more-ish than I was expecting. Wanted to just have a tentacle or two, but ended...
Chimmichurri Grill and Panacea
Seeing I don’t eat any of the other stuff, it was basically $9.50 for a sausage. A really good sausage, but not $9.50 worth....
Steak n egg yolks
I’m not racist but, just not a big fan of egg whites. #albuminsupremacy Egg yolks make an awesome steak sauce. Uncooked to perfection.
Low-fat beef rib-eye steak
Actually amazed I could find a piece of meat with so much fat on it – and it was only $17/kg, normally ribeye is...
Pork belleh on the Weber
Needed some fat so went to Feast butcher, well, with a slight detour cos, why not? Two hours in: If there's a better smell...
Valentines Day Beef Heart Stew
The girl got me a Valentine’s Day gift, all she mentioned is she got it from The Meat Man of Adelaide – what’s in...
Double bacon and egg day
This is the best bacon – nice smoked stuff from Feast Fine Foods, it tastes more like a good pork belly than your usual...
Redback Grill – Aussie Steak
This is in my top 5 sauces I’ve ever had. It’s a little joint in the food court at Marion Shopping Centre – been...
Ribeye Fish n Corn
That’s almond meal coating. Don’t usually do corn and salad stuff, but hey the gf made it.
The Corner Bistrot – French Joint
Pretty damn good. Prices reasonable – ~$15 bucks entrees, ~$35 mains, $90 bucks for the wine. http://www.thecornerbistrot.com.au/ King Leonidas approves of this vino. Steak...
Greenham grass-fed beef t-bone steak brekky
Picked up this from the O'Connell St Butchers in North Adelaide, Greenham Beef from Tassie – grass-fed and hormone free and all that jazz,...
Louca’s Hutt St – Seafood Platter
Been reading a lot of Jack Kruse for some reason and found his position on fish – especially oysters and shellfish – being the...
MOAR RIBEYE and a Gary Taubes quote
Drove around for a couple hours wondering where to get a steak – ended up back at The Stag, ah well. Whilst finishing off...
Sky and steak
You can hardly tell where the panorama software did the stitching. Hit the Leicester for a ribeye again, can’t help it. Then got late...
Sostas 1kg T-bone
Boozehags. 1kg T-bone with chimmichurri. Mmm, barramundi – I mean boobies. Mmm, bleu. Really thought I’d struggle as I wasn’t that hungry. Got to...
Cork & Cleaver and Diluz
She’s mad! Nice menu. Garlic prawns. Chicken something. Ribeye and jus. Not bad.
Tap Inn Beef Burger
Really nice quality piece of meat, I must say. Just add butter. Oh hello there gorgeous. Buns abandoned.
Alphutte
Steak Tartare. This is how I bread. The girl necking a decanter. Salmon something. Rack o’ Lamb.
Mapo and Katie
The steak tartare was interesting – it started out as a 5 inch tall totem of ground beef n stuff with a concave top,...
Pork Belly on the BBQ
Pork is so difficult to do in the oven as it makes my apartment look like my flatmates are Cheech & Chong, and I’ve...
Leicester Hotel Ribeye Steak Of Awesomeness
It’s like my favourite emotion ridiculously smug just sat on my face. $32 bucks with a glass of Churchblock shiraz – couldn’t believe the...
Sostas Without Steak
The Goat – looks like a plate of hot mess, but the meat is so tender you could eat it through a straw. Delightful...
#socadl, Mapo, Hans, Burger, Steak n Bacon – 30 Day Steak Challenge – Day 30
Scooted along to Mapo on Gouger for my final night of “forced” steak eating. 🙂 Love the atmosphere there, the staff are friendly, and...
Leicester Hotel, humungo ribeye steak – 30 Day Steak Challenge – Day 29
Went to the Leicester Hotel with the IT boys… Finally! They’ve been going to The Cremorne a lot lately, they are crap for steak,...
Diluz, Yu Xi Elite and Saldechin – 30 Day Steak Challenge – Day 28
http://www.yuxielite.com.au/ – King William St, 9th floor above Quest Apartments. Current weight: 85.8kg Other food eaten: 150g of barramundi, 100g of (battered) soft-shell crab,...
Andre’s Cucina striploin steak and shrooms – 30 Day Steak Challenge – Day 26
Part three of Triple Steak Day. Then the girl turned up, she had a couple drinks with us and wanted dinner. Fair enough, I’ll...
Griffins Head tightarse rump steak – 30 Day Steak Challenge – Day 26
Part two of Triple Steak Day. Then a few hours later Jodie H wanted to catch up for a drink, then after a drink...
Double boner ribeye roast – 30 Day Steak Challenge – Day 26
Part one of Triple Steak Day. Had the day off and was quite hungry, I wasn’t going to be catching up with anyone today...
Low heat pan fried ribeye steak – 30 Day Steak Challenge – Day 25
Having eaten basically way too many ribeyes lately, I was looking of ways to mix it up a bit – by having another ribeye....
27 Dresses – 30 Day Steak Challenge – Day 23
Hit the markets with the girl for a mediocre brekky and to purchase basically everything available. Tash calls – still drunk from the night...
Random – 30 Day Steak Challenge – Day 22
Quite the soggy day, walked to the office rockin’ the Assassin’s Creed look. Water levels in the parklands were rather high… Was content with...
Stag Hotel Chateaubriand – 30 Day Steak Challenge – Day 18
On weekdays The Stag do half price steaks for members, and the waitresses are very attentive and entertaining because they’ve got nothing better to...
Havelock Hotel – Ribeye Steak – 30 Day Challenge – Day 13
Hit up The Havey and there’s a few smaller steak options on the menu at the moment, a 250g porterhouse ($23), a 350g ribeye...
Jolly Miller’s – Rump Steak – 30 Day Challenge – Day Four
Day Four – Men’s Club – our once a month meeting of blokes. Went to Jolly Miller’s, some quaint backyard old-school pub joint in...
Cremorne Hotel – Rump Steak – 30 Day Challenge – Day One
30 day challenge starts off with a meh. Cremorne Hotel, Unley Rd. 300g rump was the only option today – I seldom order rump...
Rotten egg ruins the meal :(
Was just about finished cooking this bacon n lamb extravaganza and wanted to chuck some eggs in… Ugh. 🙁 I just gag every time...
Pork belly and butter [FAT LOADING]
Total size was 618g and 60g of butter, I ate all the fat, about 2/3 of the butter, and left about 1/3 of the...
Slow cooked beef ribs @ Stag
My first meal in 55 hours. https://foursquare.com/ashsimmonds/checkin/4f640ba4e4b09987d0fc9c88
T-bone emasculation @ Sostas
Couple walk past, guy’s eyeing off my steak, woman goes “honey, that’s too much meat for you” – my balls shrank in emasculation sympathy.
Double Bacon Cheeseburger Deluxe replaced buns with slices of cheese
Heart healthy version of the Bacon Double Cheeseburger Deluxe – replace buns with cheese. https://foursquare.com/ashsimmonds/checkin/4f4f7a1ae4b0cad93c1d92c7
Beef rib
High steaks ribs, fat glorious fat. https://foursquare.com/ashsimmonds/checkin/4f2ca7e5e4b056f83a647cf3
Raw lamb chop and broccolini
@TashStoodley @danaesinclair @TaschaD @geckowebs @sophieliddy @LVS Meat, broccoli, red wine. Carbless dinner win.http://t.co/I3IXppoD — Some Idiot actually (@AshSimmonds) September 19, 2011 @TashStoodleyI’m so sorry...
Surf n turf @ Seven Stars
Poor @anepiphany is too sick for lunch today, had to get Diluz as a ring in. http://twitpic.com/2ze870 — Some Idiot actually (@AshSimmonds) October 21,...
Thirty Four
Midnight snack at mine. Crispy skinned salmon w/ hollandaise, asparagus & sweet potato & carrot mash Pip This was by far the best meal...
Dream vs Reality – microwave lunch edition
Proscuitto wrapped chicken with carrots and creamy mash eh…? Dream vs Reality: lunch packaging designed by the folks who advertised Sea Monkeys. #WorkWed #foodfail...
Quad Stacker @ Burger King
Was out drinking with this chick and after decorating my toilet with red wine and indian food she needed meat… Went the HJ’s and...
Wagyu scotch fillet steak @ Gilbert St Hotel
Now I’m depressed – that’s like 3 crap steaks in a row eating out, over $100 in meat which is enough for 5 awesome...
Scotch fillet steak with “layonnaisse” @ Brunswick
7 or 8 of us went to The Brunswick on Gilbert st, was pretty good – nothing amazing. But the sauce was fantastic –...
Porterhouse and ratatouille @ Sostas
Decent porterhouse – I’ll give it 7/10 because the mushroom sauce was pretty bland tonight and added almost nothing. But what’s with drinks service...
Petit fillet and Mother’s Milk wine discovery @ Stag
Stag on Friday with Les, both of us have had far too many poor steak experiences there but there wasn’t much else available at...
Windy surf n turf
New rule: don’t use the BBQ when it’s windy. 😕 Didn’t think it’d be an issue cos it’s pretty well enclosed, but turns out...
Goat slop @ Sostas
Sostas always do such fantastic food, had the goat tonight – succulent!!! However – I dare say the presentation could be improved…
Ribeye with butter champignons
Only 630gm today. Delicious cut of rib-eye – still no luck finding a decent sauce. 😕 Been hearing good things about a steak joint...
T-bone with Cork & Cleaver Peppery & Hickory Spice
Well I shallow-fried my t-bone. Was only like a $9 buck supermarket steak, but still turned out alright.
996g t-bone demolition
Went to the butcher – aching for a T-bone, the only ones in the display case were like 20mm thick – pffft! I ask...
Flaming ribeye
Standard Sunday breakfast at Chateua le Ash… This bad boy is $29 of the finest piece of cow in the state. Anyone know where...
Ribeye steak brekky slam
For the “jus” I put together some butter, crushed garlic, finishing sauce, chives and a healthy splash of ’03 Lost Block cab sav.
Petit fillet @ Havelock Hotel
Went to Havelock on Hutt – was dying for a steak and a bit disappointed when I saw the only two options on the...
$20 buck scotch fillet steak
So I was in my butcher’s and I ask for a yea-thick chunk of dry aged scotch fillet – she goes “just one?” and...
Dry aged scotch fillet steak
Today’s gut filler is a dry aged steak – this piece of cow cost $26 bucks! Must say – not a fan of the...
Surf n surf – scallops and salmon
Ok, I dusted the scallops with a nice and mild salt-n-pepper combo – it has a very vanilla smell to it, it’s quite nice...
