Eating with Stacy and Andy, next on TODAY
Well, as we start rolling into Days 50, 51, 52,... I thought it prudent to keep a count of how we choose to eat and make it through our days here in the southern hemisphere.
Have we been killing our own sheep for protein? Picking the forbidden fruit off the trees for sweetness? Have we had to boil our own pee to survive?? Interesting you should ask...but back on topic, here is a quick rundown of the meals we eat on a typical day:
Brekky (breakfast):
*1 bowl Muesli (rolled oats of various varietals)
-mixed with slices of bananas, apples or pears & some honey
*Coffee prepared via a plunger pitcher. (Here's the 'scoop': put the desired amount of coffee in first, then add boiling water to 2cm from top. Place the top of the pitcher which has the pulled up plunger w/screen in in on top and let the coffee/water stand for 4-5 minutes. Then slowly push down the plunger down (this gets all the grounds isolated on the bottom so you can drink pure coffee from the top) and drink. We like our with some 1/2 & 1/2 but they don't have that in NZ, so we do milk. Works nicely :)
*Juice (on occasion) - Orange, or more recently Blackcurrant & Apple - mmmmmm!
**This brekky hits the spot over and over and over! It is funny how much each morning we wake up anxious to get it going.
Lunch:
*Sammiches!!! Typical stuff as in the States, at least typical for us Birddogs:
-Whole Grain Bread slices, deli sliced turkey ($$$), ham (very prevalent here) and/or pastrami, cheese ('Tasty'(like mild cheddar) or 'Colby' typically), tomato, lettuce or avocado, mustard (they only have English mustard which is like wasabi mustard - yeowz!)
*Chips - we love us some Kettle Chips! We nail a full bag each lunch typically. (Sea Salt, or BBQ or maybe Lime & Cracked Pepper). You know how they tend to half fill those damn bags nowadays! So lame!
*Apple or pear or carrot w/hummus (we now eat the carrots like Bugs does - none of those baby carot things)
*Granola Bar (called scroggin here)
*Water from our constantly re-filled Nalgene bottles. (Rarely do we drink much else after brekky, except for a Coke w/Whisky, a local wine or cerveza...or 2!)
Dindin:
(Most of our variety comes with this meal)
*Typically a 5-7 day cycle, old days-Conlon style (inside joke) - Pasta w/venison sausages or some other meat. Lamb w/broccoli, kumera (tatoes) etc. Mac N' Cheese - the real stuff, not no packaged Kraft stuff, Andy's famous UCSD Taco Salad, maybe a burger night here or there, stir fry....whatever it is it has to be cooked in a pan or open flame!
*Cocktail Hour offers a Whiskey & Coke (Whiskey?!? Yup, whiskey!) or a brewski (Monteith's, Mac's (thanks Judy for the hint!) or maybe a Stella Artois).
*We kill a bottle of red or white wine a night as we enjoy, as often as we can a candle-lit romantic dinner.
Our sweet tooths have definitely come in since we began our travels and a shortbread cookie or two seems to finish off the palette quite well :)
Stacy has picked up where she left off in SoCal and has put together some amazing dishes. Whether she's cooked in the kitchens that are provided at most of the camps, on our little port-o-cooker burner in our camp site or on the ground on a towel (early on in the trip :) she knows what's UP! I dabble a bit and am always there to do the dishes - also like back home!!!
We have our dirty dish bucket, soap & green scrub brush for the after-dinner duties and try to brush teeth every night.
We have been enjoying the being-at-home-like routine of going grocery shopping twice a week at places like 'New World', '4 Square', 'Woolworths' and 'Fresh Choice'. We try to keep our green soft cooler stocked daily with $4.00 bags of ice to maintain freshness (a few litres of milk have had to go prematurely unfortunately). We truly are in camping mode!
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is our new favorite TV show on Thursday nights if we are near a TV (more often lately with the cold weather and Stacy's shivers). The show is a British show - very entertaining and its on tonight!!!!!!
Hope you've enjoyed this week's episode of Those Traveling Fools. Tune in next week for Isn't it interesting how the meat we are cooking also smells like grass?
Have we been killing our own sheep for protein? Picking the forbidden fruit off the trees for sweetness? Have we had to boil our own pee to survive?? Interesting you should ask...but back on topic, here is a quick rundown of the meals we eat on a typical day:
Brekky (breakfast):
*1 bowl Muesli (rolled oats of various varietals)
-mixed with slices of bananas, apples or pears & some honey
*Coffee prepared via a plunger pitcher. (Here's the 'scoop': put the desired amount of coffee in first, then add boiling water to 2cm from top. Place the top of the pitcher which has the pulled up plunger w/screen in in on top and let the coffee/water stand for 4-5 minutes. Then slowly push down the plunger down (this gets all the grounds isolated on the bottom so you can drink pure coffee from the top) and drink. We like our with some 1/2 & 1/2 but they don't have that in NZ, so we do milk. Works nicely :)
*Juice (on occasion) - Orange, or more recently Blackcurrant & Apple - mmmmmm!
**This brekky hits the spot over and over and over! It is funny how much each morning we wake up anxious to get it going.
Lunch:
*Sammiches!!! Typical stuff as in the States, at least typical for us Birddogs:
-Whole Grain Bread slices, deli sliced turkey ($$$), ham (very prevalent here) and/or pastrami, cheese ('Tasty'(like mild cheddar) or 'Colby' typically), tomato, lettuce or avocado, mustard (they only have English mustard which is like wasabi mustard - yeowz!)
*Chips - we love us some Kettle Chips! We nail a full bag each lunch typically. (Sea Salt, or BBQ or maybe Lime & Cracked Pepper). You know how they tend to half fill those damn bags nowadays! So lame!
*Apple or pear or carrot w/hummus (we now eat the carrots like Bugs does - none of those baby carot things)
*Granola Bar (called scroggin here)
*Water from our constantly re-filled Nalgene bottles. (Rarely do we drink much else after brekky, except for a Coke w/Whisky, a local wine or cerveza...or 2!)
Dindin:
(Most of our variety comes with this meal)
*Typically a 5-7 day cycle, old days-Conlon style (inside joke) - Pasta w/venison sausages or some other meat. Lamb w/broccoli, kumera (tatoes) etc. Mac N' Cheese - the real stuff, not no packaged Kraft stuff, Andy's famous UCSD Taco Salad, maybe a burger night here or there, stir fry....whatever it is it has to be cooked in a pan or open flame!
*Cocktail Hour offers a Whiskey & Coke (Whiskey?!? Yup, whiskey!) or a brewski (Monteith's, Mac's (thanks Judy for the hint!) or maybe a Stella Artois).
*We kill a bottle of red or white wine a night as we enjoy, as often as we can a candle-lit romantic dinner.
Our sweet tooths have definitely come in since we began our travels and a shortbread cookie or two seems to finish off the palette quite well :)
Stacy has picked up where she left off in SoCal and has put together some amazing dishes. Whether she's cooked in the kitchens that are provided at most of the camps, on our little port-o-cooker burner in our camp site or on the ground on a towel (early on in the trip :) she knows what's UP! I dabble a bit and am always there to do the dishes - also like back home!!!
We have our dirty dish bucket, soap & green scrub brush for the after-dinner duties and try to brush teeth every night.
We have been enjoying the being-at-home-like routine of going grocery shopping twice a week at places like 'New World', '4 Square', 'Woolworths' and 'Fresh Choice'. We try to keep our green soft cooler stocked daily with $4.00 bags of ice to maintain freshness (a few litres of milk have had to go prematurely unfortunately). We truly are in camping mode!
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is our new favorite TV show on Thursday nights if we are near a TV (more often lately with the cold weather and Stacy's shivers). The show is a British show - very entertaining and its on tonight!!!!!!
Hope you've enjoyed this week's episode of Those Traveling Fools. Tune in next week for Isn't it interesting how the meat we are cooking also smells like grass?
posted by Stacy @TheZenGirl at
7:50 PM
1 Comments:
You guys are just too funny! Do you have publishing companies fighting over first rights to your stories yet?
Your stories remind me of the puzzles I ran across when I ran that B&B in New Zealand for a month. On the first morning I had no idea how to use that damn plunger coffee maker, and guests from South Africa had to show me how to use it. When I had an appointment in town, and was late because the cows decided to dawdle while crossing the road, no one thought twice about my excuse. I never ran across any elephant seals lounging around the roads, though. xoxoo Mom
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