It's All About the Food

Maybe we’re becoming foodies.  I looked up the definition of foodie on Merriam-Webster.  They define “foodie” as a person having an avid interest in the latest food fads.

OK, maybe not.  We’re not fad-type people.  We just like good food.  And often the best food is that which is made at home.

There are exceptions to the made-at-home thing.  We were at Palio in Grand Rapids last night with some close friends of ours, and the food was great.  Highly recommended and we will probably end up there again.

But, even when we travel, we try to do the made-at-home thing as much as possible.  Because of the small space in the RV, much of this is prepared ahead of time and packaged so as to (a) fit in small spaces, and (b) go from fridge to table in a matter of minutes.

Today, we did some of that preparation.  While cold cereal is convenient for breakfast, a breakfast burrito is a great hot start to the day.  We assembled several of these for the trip.  A couple minutes in the microwave and it’s ready to go. 

While I was busy assembling the breakfast burritos, Deb was making her famous chocolate chip cookies, which can be seen in the background.  That’s another essential of travel--good snacks.  The best ones have chocolate as a major ingredient.

And, an essential food for any trip is bacon.  As the saying goes, anything is better with bacon.  So we fried up a pound and packed it in containers, ready to be brought out at a moment’s notice for breakfast or to add flavor to a panini sandwich for lunch.  There never seems to be enough bacon.

Mmmm!  You can just smell it in the oven.

In planning our route, we made sure that Zingerman’s in Ann Arbor is one of our stops.  We were there a few weeks ago and had some of their bacon.  Probably some of the best bacon I have ever tasted.  Worth planning an extra half-hour of driving to pick up a pound.

So the fridge and freezer here have been filling with all kinds of good food, some of it coming from meals that were made here at home, with the extra stored in a container for the trip.  On Tuesday, this will all be transferred to the RV fridge, and hopefully it will all fit.  Deb tells me that she is the visionary, with all the food ideas, and I am responsible for making it all fit in.  Could be quite a challenge.

But we will eat well.