Subsistence Boat

In New Zealand, we loaded our freezers with meat and chicken and our basement storage area with all manner of dry stores – we could have done without most of it. We in fact have turned in to a subsistence boat.

We catch fish almost everyday. Today it was a nice fat wahoo. We do Keri Keri in the villages we visit (the process of exchanging gifts). Today, a fellow came out and gave us 6 beautiful papayas. In return, we gave him a small bag of rice.

Our bowls are full of fresh green bananas (they are ripe when they are green), papayas, taro root, fresh pineapple, oranges, lemons and limes. In a cool location we also have fresh kumera (the best sweet potato I have ever had), local carrots and onions.

Green coconuts on the back deck each have over a liter of wonderful, refreshing milk in them.

In the markets, Deb has bought wonderful local spices to flavor our meals.

Tonight’s dinner menu is fresh wahoo steaks, boiled taro root, and local green beans. It will be served with a light curry sauce on the side along with a nice bottle of red wine.

The stuff in the freezers and the dry stores in the basement will just have to wait for another day. Art this rate, it may be a very, very long time.

Cheers!