Manitoulin. If I can make it there…

[Shelby]

Going to miss my cocktails when I get home!

What???  Home means no cocktails??

[Kerry Beal]

When I'm home I'm more likely to be lugging the kid around at the cocktail hour - and with a drink on board I find myself a little weaker. So I'm less likely to have one.

[Shelby]

When I'm home I'm more likely to be lugging the kid around at the cocktail hour - and with a drink on board I find myself a little weaker. So I'm less likely to have one.

I see.

 

Well, yeah, that makes  you enjoy your cocktails even more when you can have them

[Kerry Beal]

 

Negroni as a second cocktail.

 

 

With the CSO packed away, tonights dinner was made in the Remoska. Chicken thighs, potatoes, onions, carrots and peppers in an ancient dijon sauce.  

[Kerry Beal]

I see.

 

Well, yeah, that makes  you enjoy your cocktails even more when you can have them

Indeed it does!

[Deryn]

The lady who is so precise when it comes to measurement managed to misgauge the amount needed for the bottles to be capped and left behind. How fortuitous (and smart!).

 

Have a great (and safe) trip home, all of you. I have, as always, enjoyed your island stay. Thank you so much.

 

p.s. Kerry - any chance that low/no sugar chocolate experimentation will happen back home perhaps? I have some TJ's dark and milk no sugar chocolate bars I bought for that neighbour (which I have not given her yet because they seemed so puny a gift) and was thinking I might try to use them to make filled chocolates of some kind if you think that would work?

[Shelby]

Thanks, as always, for taking us all along.  Safe travels and we'll see you when you get home

[Kerry Beal]

The lady who is so precise when it comes to measurement managed to misgauge the amount needed for the bottles to be capped and left behind. How fortuitous (and smart!).

 

Have a great (and safe) trip home, all of you. I have, as always, enjoyed your island stay. Thank you so much.

 

p.s. Kerry - any chance that low/no sugar chocolate experimentation will happen back home perhaps? I have some TJ's dark and milk no sugar chocolate bars I bought for that neighbour (which I have not given her yet because they seemed so puny a gift) and was thinking I might try to use them to make filled chocolates of some kind if you think that would work?

If I can find the cocoa mass I know I have there somewhere - I shall work on it when I'm home.

[rotuts]

""  the CSO packed away ""

 

Ill drop the Flag to 1/2 mast in the morning.

[Kerry Beal]

Way too early in the morning.

 

 

 

 

The Closet! No closet failures this time.

[Beth Wilson]

Wow, just wow!  That is a closet full of fun! 

 

Thanks for sharing your Manitoulin adventure with us again.  It just doesn't feel like summer has started until you start posting all your wonderful creations in that tiny little kitchen :-)

 

Have a safe trip home and I look forward to seeing you unpack that closet in the fall!

[suzilightning]

As always THANK YOU two...can't wait until the fall.

[kayb]

Enjoyed the stay on the Island. Safe travels to y'all!

[IowaDee]

Fibber McGee could  take closet packing lessons from the two of you!  Thanks for letting us tag along, it is always a great ride.

[weinoo]

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Toasted struan bread with cheese with blackcurrant and raspberry preserves. This bread makes fabulous toast!

 

I'm surprised rotuts hasn't offered that the reason the bread toasts so wonderfully is actually the Steam Girl!!

 

Safe travels.

[rotuts]

""  I'm surprised rotuts hasn't offered that the reason the bread toasts so wonderfully is actually the Steam Girl!!  ""

 

yes I did

 

​I was the first one to suggests the actual mechanism for Fantastic Toast ( FT )

 

 

 

it was late in the CSB thread as I was very tardy to try toast in mine.

 

ask AnnaN

 

if just for toast and reheating, the CSB would be a steel at any price.

 

add just the CkTh's  and you get a priceless bonus.

 

 lets review :  

 

 

 

the steam comes from the actual bread in this case.  so it has to be fresh.

Edited August 2, 2015 by rotuts (log)

[rotuts]

I love the packing-up pics

 

how is the car doing this time ?

[Kerry Beal]

Last night it seemed like there was lots of room in the car. This morning not so much!was lots of room in the car! This morning not so much!

[rotuts]

taking the Ferry ?

[Kerry Beal]

Yep just getting off now

[Kerry Beal]

A few assorted pictures from today.

 

 

Ferry on it's way.

 

 

Chicheemaun muffin (forgot picture before starting to eat) - nice pea meal bacon in there.

 

 

Anna's breakfast.

 

 

Kira's breakfast.

 

 

Lighthouse that indicates that Tobermory is getting near.

[Anna N]

Over in the breakfast thread there are claims that there is no such thing as leftover bacon. I cannot sure everybody there is such a thing because I watched Kerry eat the leftover bacon from Manitoulin as a snack on our trip down.

Me, I was so hungry and so tired when I got home that I sent out for Chinese! And damn it is good.

[Smithy]

Thank you both for another lovely trip, with inspiration as as well as laughs. I'm going to be boggling for a while over that last shot of the Closet o' Fun Stuff! :-D

[Kerry Beal]

Ak Mak crackers with cream cheese that I doctored with dill, chives, salt and pepper for me.

[Anna N]

Fibber McGee could  take closet packing lessons from the two of you!  Thanks for letting us tag along, it is always a great ride.

I take absolutely no credit for the packing. That is Kerry's forte.