300 meals on a deserted island

These ladies produced our breakfast yesterday

one2travelfar — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:46:09 +0000

274, epilogue

one2travelfar — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:12:50 +0000

Our last meal of yogurt and coffe before we heat the high seas of the Bass Strait.

271-273, our final meals on Deal

one2travelfar — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:12:06 +0000

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.

268-270, The changeover and feasts begin

one2travelfar — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:08:10 +0000

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

Our last supper (alone on Deal Island), 265-267

one2travelfar — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:06:08 +0000

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.

The last of the chocolate chips, 262- 264

one2travelfar — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:53:24 +0000

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.

Stuffed red peppers, 259-261

one2travelfar — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:50:31 +0000

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.

Mutant carrots, 256-258

one2travelfar — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:27:43 +0000

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.

256) toast and yogurt and coffee; 257) leftovers: chicken, pea soup, pasta with basil and cheese, sloppy joes; 258) grilled chicken with marinade of orange marmalade, oil, balsamic vinegar, ginger and mustard, potates with chives and carrots with dill, strawberry ice cream.

A new ingredient, red peppers! 253-255

one2travelfar — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:32:31 +0000

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.

250-252, Loaves and cheeses

one2travelfar — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:45:30 +0000

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.