We’ve had a few culinary adventures in the last two weeks, one of them being the tomatoes we delicately wrapped in tinfoil. Remember that little gem of advice about sealing tomatoes to keep them fresh? It turns out that strategy does nothing toward their preservation.
In fact, opening up the balls of foil is like opening up a stink bomb; you never know how bad it’s going to be until you peel back the wrapping and see a squishy tomato-like mess inside.
This was the beginning of the experiment, half of the tomatoes were wrapped in tinfoil and half of the tomatoes were left unwrapped. Let’s just say the wrapped tomatoes didn’t fare so well. Photo Lindsey Hoshaw
Jeff and Gwen make salsa from the few edible tinfoil-wrapped tomatoes
On the other hand, we’ve had some great meals, albeit unusual ones. We’ve consisted on a diet of banana bread, fried bananas, dried bananas, banana smoothies and banana pudding (among other things). And we managed to pull 20 muscles off a buoy we found floating by then boiled them for dinner. I have to say, spaghetti with a side of buoy-muscles is pretty delicious.
These are the muscles Captain Moore cut off an abandoned buoy we saw floating by the ship. They were tiny but worth saving. Photo Lindsey Hoshaw
Posted by Spot. Us on 09/22/09
