Workplace generosity

Bacon must be a better gift than chocolate at Easter!

Bacon! Mmm…Last night I wrote about workplace generosity and how I marvelled at how I’ve been blessed working in great environments where people bring in food to share. I didn’t anticipate I’d be writing a piece about workplace generosity so soon, but here is part II.

Home smoked and cured

Today I was visiting some colleagues on another floor and someone mentioned bacon and I was given some vacuum sealed home smoked and cured porcine gold. How good is that?

I love bacon. I can’t imagine life without it. It got me thinking. When I was a teenager and a young adult full of ignorance and arrogance if I heard someone didn’t like this manor from heaven I’d make some sort of snide comment.

Ethical, moral and religious objections

I can appreciate that for some people it may be a problem for ethical, moral or religious reasons that they don’t eat the amazing bounty from a pig. There will even be some people who don’t like the salty smoky goodness.

In a glass half full context, rather than be critical or make fun of such people, I’m grateful, because it means there is more bacon for me.

Shout out to Sarah and Choppy

I’d like to do a shout out to a blogger friend, Sarah who regularly comments on bacon as well as her companions Paul, Choppy and Schooner.

Sarah dresses up Choppy and Schooner and hangs signs from Choppy’s neck and places signs in front of Schooner’s paws. Mainly because Schooner will scratch Sarah if she tries to attach anything physically to Schooner.

What’s the plan for the gift?

So the plan at the moment is to make Mac and Cheese tomorrow night and have the bacon in that. I’ll let you know how it turns out.

Social media

If you follow Yummy Lummy (my food blog’s) Instagram account you’ll see quite a few examples of workplace generosity.

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Workplace generosity is a thing to behold and cherish. I’d rather a generous workplace than one which is mean and nasty.

I’ve always been fortunate to work in places where people feel generous and have a desire to share. Often it’s food, sometimes it’s produce from a fruit tree or vegetable garden and occasionally it’s craft.

Today was no different but today was the first time I’ve been given a homemade Portuguese tart.

Workplace generosity | Portuguese tart Gary Lum — Workplace generosity | Portuguese tart

When I was in medical school I used to bake and bring cakes into the laboratory where I worked part-time to put myself through university.

When I was a pathology trainee, I’d bring in a sticky bun on Saturdays.

I’m seriously considering baking again, but I’m really struggling with my weight. Baking is hardly going to help me.

So let me share with you what else I ate today.

For lunch, I had the last of my leftover cauliflower soup. I’m surprised at just how much I enjoyed this soup. I think it may have something to do with how much red chilli and chilli flakes I added. It really gave the soup some zing.

For dinner, I made panko crusted tail of salmon with pearl barley couscous with some cheesy spicy chilli laden white sauce. I’m really enjoying my renewed love for white sauce.

Panko crusted salmon with pearl barley couscous and cheesy chilli white sauce Workplace generosity Gary Lum — Panko crusted salmon with pearl barley couscous and cheesy chilli white sauce

If you like the look of my dinner it was pretty simple to put together. I added panko breadcrumbs to the plastic bag holding the salmon and shook it up to coat the salmon.

The pearl barley couscous is ready packaged and cooked in the microwave oven for 150 seconds.

The white sauce was made by melting butter in a saucepan with some diced white onion and then some plain flour whisked into form a roux. Full cream milk was added to make a sauce. I took it off the heat and folded in some grated Coon cheese and Parmesan. To that, I folded in some chopped parsley and chilli flakes.

If you follow my food blog Instagram account you’ll see quite a few examples of workplace generosity.

Feel free to also follow me on my nonfood social media on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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