Foodfront for past few weeks

We sampled fast food from Taco Bell, a popular American food franchise store. If you can manage to avoid the delicious double fried chips and crispy cinnamon twists it is possible to eat healthy here for a few dollars. Chips and twists are good though, so forget about the healthy!

Jac has taken the award for the best bread-maker and she makes a mean chocolate cake. The iced chocolate cake makes the blow of Steve losing his crown easier!

We got some meat vacuum-packed at Curacao two weeks ago….sadly a poor job was done and now our meat supply is fish food….so meat free recipes on our last few days of sailing…

Spinach & Feta Cheese Quiche

In a bowl, whisk 6 eggs, sour cream, grated cheese, crumbled feta cheese, tin of drained and rinsed spinach and salt and pepper. Pour into a greased pan (lined with bread crumbs…I omit crumbs) and bake in a moderate oven.

Fried Rice…
Pan-fry onion, chopped bacon and capsicum. Add cooked rice and pan-fry adding tinned corn , stir through beaten egg and add soy sauce and cracked pepper prior to serving…

A variation to this is to add pre-cooked red curry rice, omit egg and soy sauce. Add a tin of coconut milk.

Sandwiches ( home baked bread) with cold meat, cheese and pickles….ABC islands had a great supply of pre-packed sliced cold cut meats/sausage and gouda cheeses.
Serve with a lettuce side salad adding chopped tomato, onion, S&P and tarragon vinegar.
Grated and drained cucumber mixed with vinegar, cream and S&P is a favourite and fresh side salad.

Recipe....Easy Pasta

This is a favourite...quick, easy and tasty.

Sautee onion, diced bacon, capsicum & garlic in olive oil. Add tin of tomato & dollop of tomato paste. Season with italian herbs, pepper & a little fresh lime juice. Add white wine & a little water (if needed). Simmer a few minutes to reduce.
Serve with pasta and parmesan....and crusty bread (from new breadmaker!)

Variations....
omit bacon....add a tin of pink salmon or tuna at water & wine stage.
omit bacon & water... add cream instead.
omit bacon, water & tomato...add cream & mushrooms
add sliced carrot, mushrooms & zucchini (or whatever vege I have)
add sliced carrot and celery at sautee stage
omit italian herbs and stir basil through prior to serving

Recipe....Fish and chips

Doesn't get much easier than this....

Prepare a green salad.
Dust fresh fish fillets with flour that has been seasoned with salt and pepper
Wash and chip potatoes.

Heat olive oil in saucepan, just enough to almost cover a good layer of chips in oil.
Heat frypan with a little olive oil and butter for the fish.

Start cooking chips first, moving chips so they cook evenly...after a few minutes....panfry the fish fillets so both are ready together.
Serve immediately with salad and wedges of lime.

Variation: season flour with a little chilli or curry

Recipe....Potato & Bacon Pot

Quick & Easy......

Wash & dice potatoes
Heat a well olive oiled heavy frypan. When hot add potatoes and place strips of bacon (eye of bacon is best, not fatty) on top, put on heavy lid. Do not turn potatoes as the plan is to have a crispy, brown bottom. You will need a good egg flip/lifter (metal) to remove crisp base with the potatoes in tact when cooked.
When potatoes are almost ready......In a separate pan sautee onion. Add beaten eggs and stir quickly until eggs are just cooked (do not overcook eggs). Serve immediately with potatoes and bacon. Great with icy cold milk!

Sometimes I cheat and turn the potatoes after they are crisp in an effort to crisp up some of the top layer....everyone wants the crispy spuds, it isn't as presentable though as the top layer of spuds do not hold their shape and the bacon gets shuffled aside.

Variation......include peeled and diced sweet potato