Iona Kitchen Tales

Here are a few kitchen adventures.

The Iona freezer is stocked with birthday cupcakes. So we can pull out one serving for the birthday person. I got to decorate the cupcake for Marie this week. It was fun. I’m not so good with frosting but I am pretty good with dry erase marker on china plate. Happy Cake & Candle Day!

The second photo may not look like much with this was our Sunday pudding. It’s hard to give you the sense of scale. Those cakes are 18 inches wide and cut into 12 pieces each. You can’t see the seventh on just out of frame. Nicki and I worked on these together. She made the chocolate pie crust. I made the cheesecake filling with orange and ginger. We also made a rhubarb compot to go on top of it. Yum!! I think the rhubarb will be grand in porridge this coming week.

The next photo is my “glove of shame.” While grating my 20th orange of the week I grated a bit of my knuckle as well. No one wants THAT in their cheesecake! I put on a blue plaster (bandaid) and then covered that with the glove of shame. The name is a joke of course, but the glove is necessary so that the plaster doesn’t end up in the filling. Yuck.

The last photo is of the pantry. The photo doesn’t look nearly as impressive as I thought it would. It’s loaded with large dry goods of all kinds. Piles of eggs, bins of sugar, bags of grains, bottles of extracts, cartons of whatever else. I have yet to discover everything in there. It’s well stocked and constantly being refilled.

If a delivery comes and there is a mix up it’s funny to me that they can just post on the island facebook page. “We got three bags of mint and four mangos are they yours?” Of course someone came to collect them. I believe it was one of the other restaurants on the island. Small place, definitely a community that works together.