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07 August 2011

In the interests of food porn envy... And because it's raining and I'm alone just right now, here is everything I have eaten on my honeymoon so far...

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Day one:

Donuts and coffee on the road followed by dodgy fast food chicken and fries at rest stops. More cola.

Got in late and grilled some chicken thighs in BBQ sause along with grilled corn and snow peas.

Day Two:

Nothing but bacon for breakfast, saved the grease. Ate half a bag of chips while sitting on the dock with a beer. Steamed Lobsters with iserali salad and biscuits that had been fried in the bacon fat. Box wines are better than you think

Day Three:
Fried oysters at a roadhouse with sweet corn and soggy, untouched fries. Berry picking turned into berry eating ..still have a two freakin pounds of blueberries left over. Pistacho ice cream followed. Dinner was burgers from the grill with uncooked red onion and lettuce. Oh how the beer flowed.
post by: The Whelk at: 11:00 | 27 comments
Day Four:

Blueberry pancakes with a homemade raspberry syrup. The berries, there are too many. Nothing beats baking with a beer in hand. As a light snack I make grilled pizza bite ...things with olives. Crunchy. A split chicken is slow BBQed while sweet corn is added to the salad. Blueberries in cream finishes the meal.

Day Five.

Bacon, again, but this time with blueberry crepe and biscuits. The grilled pizza thing is made again, this time with mushrooms as a reward for dragging my ass around in the canoe, Lobsters again, but wit a cucumber/avocado cold soup on the side. I begin to make in readily complicated cocktails.

Day Six:

Brie on dark rye with plans for hickory ribs and a fresh veggie pasta, later, maybe, if I can be bothered to get off the couch reading the vast collection of trashy paperbacks the previous resident left behind. It's time for another beer.
posted by The Whelk 07 August | 11:08
Oh! And we bought like a sack of fresh green peas and have been snacking on them like candy. They will go into the pasta.
posted by The Whelk 07 August | 11:08
I'm enjoying this! Thanks.

To help with your blueberry problem, I can highly recommend this blueberry lemon pound cake.
posted by Miko 07 August | 11:13
Ah I would be so on that except all this place has is an electric range, a toaster, and the outdoor grill. Oven baking is out, sadly.

On the upside I can make griddle cakes like a god.
posted by The Whelk 07 August | 11:17
That's kind of a nice challenge.
posted by Miko 07 August | 11:39
The grill is being used for everything, basically.

I might end up just preserving the blueberries and leaving them for the next guest.
posted by The Whelk 07 August | 11:44
This sounds wonderful! Happy honeymoon, you sweetpeas!

If you need ideas for blueberries, you could macerate those little devils. Splash 'em with lemon or orange juice and a sprinkle of sugar and let them sit in the fridge. If you're feeling fancy enough to devote five solid minutes to the task, reduce the juice (along with some booze if you like) to a thick sticky glaze, let it cool completely, then toss with the berries and let sit.

They'll exude their own juice and make the most delicious saucy syrup: amazing on ice cream or cake or on biscuits with whipped cream (blueberry shortcake!), but I also like macerated berries over yogurt or on pancakes instead of syrup.
posted by Elsa 07 August | 11:47
Add a little rum or whiskey to Elsa's maceration mix and you've got a real good thing going...
posted by fancyoats 07 August | 12:45
Lunch was a spicy chicken wrap with bland but fresh slaw.

I then proceeded to buy fifty dollars worth of books and the WASP-Yist clothing ever at the Goodwill. It's too rainy to grill and I don't wanna boil water, so I'll put the bacon and brie between the black bread and cook it on the griddle. Call it a B&B&BB

I am currently trying to invent a cocktail that tastes exactly like cherry coke.
posted by The Whelk 07 August | 16:19
Blueberries freeze well, too. YOu can freeze them on a cookie sheet, then dump them in a Ziploc and take them home in a cooler if you have one.

the WASP-Yist clothing ever at the Goodwill.

Maine has the best thrift shopping and estate and yard saling anywhere.
posted by Miko 07 August | 16:22
Seriously, I got an entire Woodsy Patriarch get up, all pure wool and cotton.
posted by The Whelk 07 August | 16:49
Pigs (sic ... BACON!) or GTFO.
posted by WolfDaddy 07 August | 16:59
Brie and bacon sandwiches in black rye fried in butter isn't enough for you?

Oh also so far we're having luck with a splash of wild cherry brandy, some spiced rum, and lemon juice with a bit a tonic water but it feels like its missing something vital that the lemon and tonic are compensating for....
posted by The Whelk 07 August | 17:02
You're missing a caramel flavor.
posted by Miko 07 August | 19:10
...and/or possibly vanilla. The flavor secret of Coke is a super balanced blend of citrus, vanilla, caramel, and ginger.
posted by Miko 07 August | 19:11
We basically filled up on nuts and chips and testing various cocktail combinations to eat, so now it's slasher movies.
posted by The Whelk 07 August | 20:54
Whelk I was hoping you'd post pics of your piggy treats. I guess you're too full right now to get the nuance. :-P
posted by WolfDaddy 07 August | 21:24
This is a sex thing, isn't it?
posted by The Whelk 07 August | 23:23
No. You're married now.
posted by WolfDaddy 08 August | 00:03
I keep forgetting.
posted by The Whelk 08 August | 09:44
Gosh. . .gout is not far off. . .:-)
posted by danf 08 August | 10:45
Oh hey I just checked, only 16% of gout cases are due to diet. Weird.

Anyway! Breaskfast was a shipyard IPA followed by a trip to Hallowell and lobster stew and peppery clams., a lavender mead on the road ( seriously, lavender mead, it was awesome) and dinner of the B&B&BB with the avocado soup refreshed with chunks of cucumber and green onion, which made it less baby-food pasty.

Work is ongoing on the cocktail, I shall not rest.

Tomorrow, do we dare to grill a peach?
posted by The Whelk 08 August | 21:27
Wouldn't it be B&BbBB? And could it become B&BbBB+(grilled peach), because that seems tasty.
posted by aniola 09 August | 01:20
Thoughts on breakfast - used the cheese from the pizza thing and the sammiches to make an omelet for spouse A with some of the cabin's arsenal of dried herbs. I saved the melted butter from the last lobster in the fridge and it added a little lobster flavor to it all. Used up the bacon, saved the fat to fry some black rye in it cause all I'm having is the cold salad cause got damnit I spent an hour chopping it I am going to eat it.

Biggest revelation, I could hold the omelet warm by placing it IN THE SUN. I feel like a wizard.

Dinner will be steaks and grilled peaches with unknown veggie, no idea for snack but it might just be chips and nuts.
posted by The Whelk 09 August | 12:19
Steaks marinaded in BBQish sauce, grilled and serve with crispy garlic new potatoes and afterthought use-them-up snow peas .


Elsa, I can totally macerating these blueberries with rum and putting the resulting syrup in the awesome kraken rum bottle with a note explaining what it is for the owners when they get back.
posted by The Whelk 09 August | 19:38
( and grilled peaches, of course)
posted by The Whelk 09 August | 19:39
Going to Rockland after a visit to the dump, planning for a fancy-ass lunch at a place with napkins and waiters!
posted by The Whelk 10 August | 10:16
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