Our last meal of yogurt and coffe before we heat the high seas of the Bass Strait.
Well the changeover went smoothly, the weather cooperated and I won’t be cooking 300 meals after all. 273 at final count. I’ll go back and revise my shopping list to reflect what we had too much of: coffee, oatmeal, flour and jam. But more importantly, too little of: chocolate, wine, chocolate, chocolate.
271) yogurt and english muffin, 272) stew prepared by Kim for the Dunnie workers; 273) barbecue on the jetty with muttonbird, wallaby, abalone. No rain and a beautiful evening.
Kim and Spud arrived from Flinders Island today and they brought lots of local food with them. I baked a batch of cookies and coffee cake as my last baking endeavor in the kitchen.
313) yogurt and english muffins and coffee; 314) stuffed peppers; 315) barbecue on the jetty with wallaby schnitzle, sausages, steak, salad and cookies
265) yogurt with peaches, coffee and english muffin; 266) leftover sausage and pepper pizza; 267) pork chops with soy sauce, orange marmalade, mustard, oil and vinegar sauce, carrots, peas, green beans, mashed potatoes, peach crisp.
I am going to use up the last of our chocolate chips and whipping cream to make chocolate mousse for dessert. We were bushbashing during the day and ate a picnic lunch on one of the hills.
262) yogurt with peaches, bagel and coffee; 263) cheese, soy linseed bread, chocolate chip cookies; 264) pizza with sausage and peppers, arugula salad with orange segments, chocolate mousse.
We made good use of the red peppers and celery. Celery was a nice addition to chicken salad and I stuffed the red peppers. Unfortunately, we ate them as soon as they came out of the oven so here’s the before picture.
I was in a cooking frenzy. I made a loaf of soy linseed bread (in the machine) a batch of chocolate chip cookies, english muffins and crackers. Then I simmered onion skins I have been keeping for three months to dye the wool I just finished spinning.
259) pancakes for me with peaches, coffee; 260) chicken salad sandwiches, tomatoes; 261) stuffed red peppers with rice, ground beef and tomatoes, arugula, carrot and radish salad, chocolate chip cookies.
More genetic mutations from the garden. Or actually environmentally caused, I think perhaps the dirt was packed in a funny way as this carrot tried to grow, and grow.
We were revisited by the crew of Peacetrain. They’re heading home after a month on the boat and brought us some beautiful capsicum (red peppers), celery and lemon. They hold a warm spot in our hearts because earlier on we enjoyed a barbecue with them and they left us some cask wine.
253) bagel and jam with coffee, carrot muffins for snack; 254) tuna on fresh white bread with chinese cabbage and cucumbers; 255) sloppy joes and fresh bread, arugula, cucumber and radish salad (all sown and grown by me), sago or tapioca for dessert.
We’re preparing for changeover but still have to eat, so I bake on. Two loaves of bread this morning, apple crisp for dinner. I love the process of baking bread. I look out over the water, across Murray Passage to Erith Island while I work the dough. Priceless.
250) pancakes and coffee; 251) grilled cheese and tomato on fresh bread; 252) grilled steak, pasta with basil, garlic and parmesan (not quite pesto because we don’t have a mortar or blender or nuts!), arugala and tomato salad, apple crisp.
