A Sunday In The Sun!

YUM! Duck breasts cooking on the grill along with grilling garlic sourdough topped with Gruyere

Duck breast layered on the Gruyere sourdough toast and topped with Clive's Masala Chutney Navideno - and leftover (frozen) rice mixed with l/o butternut squash, roasted in oven.




I'm feeling really good about our eating on the road - other than not passing up those beautiful Alaskan King Crab legs for the Sauteed Crab Leg dish, we have been eating out of the freezer....the little freezer in the trailer!! The above dinner was from the freezer - gruyere, rice and the duck breasts. The butternut squash, we had a portion of a week or so before we left home, so I just grabbed it and added it to the stock in the frig as we left.

We still have in the freezer to play with - 8 huge prawns, ~1/2 smaller prawns, a chix back quarter, ham & beans, White bean chili, lb. of razor clams, 4 pkgs. (2 oz. each) frozen fresh crab meat, and in the frig I brot along a lb. can of Costco's lump crab. So, I will have no trouble having fun with trailer dinners.

But...the nicest experience happened to us yesterday. We were our riding our bikes IN THE SUNSHINE and came upon a couple meandering around the park and as we usually do, we stop and chat them up. Well, this time, whooooeeee, did it pay off! We met Dave & Sue Beckstrand from Pine City, Minnesota - who just happen to raise Bison!!! Hello! boy, did I jump on this. None of us had business cards with us, so we met them back at their place and Dave gave us his card with his email address. They do not ship their bison, they do as we did when we raised pigs, they sell them by the halves to friends, but he has a friend who does ship, so he will give me all the info on this. While we were talking, Sue came out with a pkg. in her hand - a lb. of Bison ground meat. Oh boy, all the way home I'm thinking what WILL I do with this treasure...finally decided and I'll do it tonite - just make patties, nice big, thick patties, rub with melted butter, add s&p and grill them. I haven't had breakfast yet, and I'm just dying to get going on dinner. I have some little red potatoes, so will probably grill those also along with a green salad & berry jam vinaigrette.

Oh happy food days!

And good news from our friend Bob & Sharon (harborwitch as she is known on some boards) have found a wonderful home t0 get them out of the tiny, little yacht where they had to down-size so much it's a wonder she was able to pull of these wonderful dinners that she is know for!! Can hardly wait for our next stop at their place.

Also, need to talk to Tracie, she was a cooking fool this weekend evidently. Jimmy (grandson) and his 3 roomies have 'hired' Trace to cook 3 dinners a week for them. With her taking culinary classes, she is so anxious to do some serious cooking, but cooking for one really doesn't cut it - this will be so perfect for her...and them! And a personal chef's business is being born!