All posts tagged apples
All posts tagged apples
Lunch #1: A granola bar and an apple in the car, because I was running late.
Note #1: If you’re packing an apple from home, always wrap it in a napkin and tuck it in a plastic baggie — that way you can wipe your fingers and dispose of the core without making a mess. My mother taught me this when I was very small.
Supper #1 after a long day of travel and research: Perfect baked haddock (slab of fish, coat of Ritz crumbs) served in a cream-colored oval gratin dish alongside a blistering hot baked potato, the whole plate a study in beige except for the lemon wedge; a slab of homemade bumbleberry pie and a couple mugs of hot black coffee.
Breakfast #1 in preparation for a long day at a sled dog race: Fried egg over very hard (on purpose), three strips of blistering-hot bacon (I’d ordered Canadian, but it was fine), a homemade blueberry muffin split in half and grilled, multiple cups of hot black coffee.
Lunch #2 in Kokadjo after the mushers had taken off and before they returned: A hot, greasy, pink-in-the-middle hamburger and some hot, salty french fries, both doused in ketchup; several styrofoam cups of hot black coffee from a pot in the adjacent general store.
Note #2: The temperature of foods becomes very important when it’s -2 before the windchill.
Supper #2: After the long day at the dog sled race all I wanted was a hot bath; after taking a hot bath the last thing I wanted to do was to put on pants and go out again, so I was lazy and had another granola bar and some almonds and an apple while I lounged in bed with my books and notebooks and actually it was quite lovely.
Breakfast #2: Because I was traveling on a budget I’d stashed a yogurt I’d brought in the motel fridge, but when I opened it I realized it was frozen solid, much like the landscape outside the window. Solution: do not get annoyed about having to eat a container of icy yogurt for breakfast — get excited about eating ice cream for breakfast! (Copious amounts of hot coffee followed.)
