Manitoulin test kitchen (Part 2)

[Shelby]

Wow.  That is a big ship.

[ElsieD]

Safe trip home.

[Tri2Cook]

It's Hawfest this weekend in Little Current.  I know I've mentioned it before - all Haweaters (folks born on the island) are expected to come home and spend time with their family.  A fair amount of alcohol is consumed this weekend on the island.  Police are imported from many other communities - so there are cops on bikes, cops on four wheelers, cops in cars and even the odd one on foot.  They seem to be having fun on the four wheelers. 

We get it in March. A different event of course... but the rest of it is all too familiar.

[Shelby]

 I always know summer is over when you guys go home.  I'm gonna miss you!  I think you should start a "we're home" topic

[rotuts]

many thanks for this fine thread.

 

Sad the CuisiCombi is staying.

 

its going to be so lonely and Steam-Less.

 

[gfweb]

Is leaving the combi behind a sign that you don't find it useful?

[Anna N]

We left the townhouse at 7:15 am and after a long drive including a trip on the Chi-Cheemaun I am home at last 9 hours later. Kerry still has about 30 mins more to go! Need coffee, a brief visit with family and foster kitties then will answer any last questions.

[Porthos]

My deepest thank you to you, Anna, and to Kerry for this thread. I thoroughly enjoy following your time on the island. Is is many things: comfortable, informative, inspiring, a happy place to be reading.

 

edited a typo.

Edited August 4, 2014 by Porthos (log)

[Tri2Cook]

Thanks for taking us along once again. I hate to see it end but I'm sure you're both happy to get home. I know I always am.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

We left the townhouse at 7:15 am and after a long drive including a trip on the Chi-Cheemaun I am home at last 9 hours later. Kerry still has about 30 mins more to go! Need coffee, a brief visit with family and foster kitties then will answer any last questions.

 

Please tell us what are your drinks tonight!

 

(And what is a Chi-Cheemaun?)

[Porthos]

I think the Chi-Cheemaun is the ferry from the island to the mainland.

[Okanagancook]

Thanks for an inspiring blog and thankfully no mouth watering naan!

[Kerry Beal]

Please tell us what are your drinks tonight!

 

(And what is a Chi-Cheemaun?)

As Porthos explains - the Chi-Cheemaun is the ferry that plies it's way between Tobermory (at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula) and South Baymouth on Manitoulin Island.  

 

Cocktail tonight is Sherry Duval from Cocktail Virgin Slut - 

 

 

Sweet and syrupy - hubby and I are quite enjoying it.

 

And I'm on my second pot of tea.

Edited August 4, 2014 by Kerry Beal (log)

[Kerry Beal]

 

Waiting to get on the ferry - it loads from the stern in South Baymouth and unloads and reloads from the bow in Tobermory.

 

Decided to have breakfast on the ferry rather than risk the time crunch on land.  

 

 

Eggs are either scrambled or scrambled - Anna wanted sunny - got scrambled.

 

 

Now if she'd ordered a sandwich like I did - hold the cheese, hold the english muffin - she could have had over easy.

 

 

Yogurt for Kira along with some french toast I had cooked up for her this morning and tucked away in a bag.  

 

 

Bad day for seagulls today - we saw at least 4 as roadkill.  Enjoyed checking out the gryphon at the entrance to the University of Guelph.  Couldn't help thinking of gfron1 when I saw it.

 

 

 

[suzilightning]

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Waiting to get on the ferry - it loads from the stern in South Baymouth and unloads and reloads from the bow in Tobermory..  

 

 Bad day for seagulls today - we saw at least 4 as roadkill.  Enjoyed checking out the gryphon at the entrance to the University of Guelph.  Couldn't help thinking of gfron1 when I saw it.

Reminds me of the Orient - New London Ferry my mom cooked on during her summers off from teaching.  It was an LST leftover from WWII and is related to the ones that ply Cape May NJ to Lewes MD

 

I'm really surprised that the gulls are roadkill.  Perhaps they weren't moving well because of something else????

 

 

October I almost here - the only reason I'm not bummed

[Anna N]

Is leaving the combi behind a sign that you don't find it useful?

Not at all. We both think it is indispensable...........IN THE TOWNHOUSE. Neither one of us has room for it at home.

[FauxPas]

Have you heard of HitchBot yet - robot hitchihking across Canada? I hear s/he was on Manitoulin Island and visited Wikwemikong yesterday. 

 

https://www.facebook.com/hitchbot

 

I'm sure you would have given him a ride, had you a little more room in the car, heh. 

[Anna N]

I think the Chi-Cheemaun is the ferry from the island to the mainland.

Yep. It's the ferry that travels between South Baymouth on the Island and Tobemory at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula on the mainland. Takes just under two hours for the one-way trip. Cuts a fair bit off the driving time but not off the overall time.

[CeeCee]

A bit late to the party, but I just wanted to thank you guys for letting us join in on another adventure and putting in so much effort!

Also, funny to see Verstegen...

[Kerry Beal]

A bit late to the party, but I just wanted to thank you guys for letting us join in on another adventure and putting in so much effort!

Also, funny to see Verstegen...

Discovered my local Dutch store has all sorts of Verstegen spices.  Have a nice little bottle of the potato spice for myself now.  Thinking of doing something with it for the next eggfest.

[ElsieD]

Discovered my local Dutch store has all sorts of Verstegen spices.  Have a nice little bottle of the potato spice for myself now.  Thinking of doing something with it for the next eggfest.

After seeing the picture of the spice, I went up to our local Dutch store and bought a bottle as well. Have used it so far on small roasted potatoes. It is dry tasty stuff. Thanks to you and Anna for posting about this; I would never have known about it otherwise.