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Our New Stove Top Oven
Comment: We received the new Coleman camp oven in the mail yesterday. This oven was ordered to replace the Heat Pal oven we tried a last week. Since we stayed aboard all day today, Anna Marie wanted to try the new oven. She also wanted to make soup and bread pudding. It seems she spent the whole day cooking!
She started out by “seasoning” the oven. When it was ready, she baked a loaf of Hawaiian Sweet Bread. As an aside, it should be noted that we used to sail to Block Island for summer vacations. While anchored in the Great Salt Pond, we would by the Portuguese Sweet Bread from Aldo. Aldo owned the bakery and patrolled the harbor in the morning and afternoon to sell his baked goods. We really liked the Portuguese Sweet Bread, but have never found a recipe that could reproduce the flavor. Anna Marie hoped that her find of the Hawaiian Sweet Bread mix would finally fill the bill.
Hawiian Sweet Bread
She started out by “seasoning” the oven. When it was ready, she baked a loaf of Hawaiian Sweet Bread. As an aside, it should be noted that we used to sail to Block Island for summer vacations. While anchored in the Great Salt Pond, we would by the Portuguese Sweet Bread from Aldo. Aldo owned the bakery and patrolled the harbor in the morning and afternoon to sell his baked goods. We really liked the Portuguese Sweet Bread, but have never found a recipe that could reproduce the flavor. Anna Marie hoped that her find of the Hawaiian Sweet Bread mix would finally fill the bill.
Hawiian Sweet Bread
After some 45 minutes, the bread came out of the oven and it looked fantastic! After letting it cool for a while, I cut off a couple of slices. We both agreed that it tasted as good as Aldo’s Portuguese Sweet Bread. This box mix is a winner!
Following that success, Anna Marie set out to make some chicken soup from the carcass of the Beer Butt Chicken we enjoyed at Porky’s last night. Without a doubt, the soup was the best ever chicken soup we had even tasted! Anna Marie was on a roll.
The Beer Butt Chicken from Porky’s cost $13.50 and it served us not only for dinner, but we enjoyed Beer Butt Chicken Soup for the next two lunches. What a great deal!
Surprisingly, Anna Marie wasn’t done exploring her culinary talents. She went on the make a Sweet Beef Stew for dinner and Bread Pudding for dessert. Both dishes were prepared in the pressure cooker, which has been getting a lot of use. For weeks it has been too chilly and/or too windy to use the grill. Anna Marie has seemed to enjoy learning the ways of the pressure cooker and it has become the most used appliance in the galley.
Following that success, Anna Marie set out to make some chicken soup from the carcass of the Beer Butt Chicken we enjoyed at Porky’s last night. Without a doubt, the soup was the best ever chicken soup we had even tasted! Anna Marie was on a roll.
The Beer Butt Chicken from Porky’s cost $13.50 and it served us not only for dinner, but we enjoyed Beer Butt Chicken Soup for the next two lunches. What a great deal!
Surprisingly, Anna Marie wasn’t done exploring her culinary talents. She went on the make a Sweet Beef Stew for dinner and Bread Pudding for dessert. Both dishes were prepared in the pressure cooker, which has been getting a lot of use. For weeks it has been too chilly and/or too windy to use the grill. Anna Marie has seemed to enjoy learning the ways of the pressure cooker and it has become the most used appliance in the galley.
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