11 July 2011
The rules, as dictated by Mia. 50 bananas. Each competitor must make up a new recipe that includes bananas. You can help other people. You cannot copy other people. Points will be given for presentation, number of bananas used, inventiveness (my rules!) So far, Mia and Lochy have submitted their dishes and it has to be said, we'll be hard pushed to beat them. I have already made 2 banana loaves, but Lochy made a banana cake that was better than anything I have ever baked. Whilst I was sous-chef, I didn't really do anything other than reach the ingredients he couldn't reach so it was his own doing. Delicious. Mia presented a banana surprise with caramelised brown sugar cream and homemade biscuit topping, with Mark as a sous-chef. The grown-ups are yet to submit, but Whit has been planning for two days and may, I suspect, be touting for the most-bananas-used prize. Why on earth did we buy so many bananas?!!
The wind dwindled a little yesterday afternoon, but our daily mileage was 140nms. Today's I suspect will be a little less, although the wind has picked up again. Mia and Mark were treated to a nighttime display of dolphins - the first of this leg - and everyday we have about 20 storm petrels flying around our boat. First thing I will look up when we get to land is how/where do they sleep at night? They're not landing on our boat, but they are with us every afternoon - where do they go?!
Curr posn: 04.10S 103.24 W A quarter of the way there!