Thursday, November 28 With an increase in wind comes an increase in waves and I just got my ass kicked by the stuff in the fridge. We’ve been keeping hard boiled eggs handy. Easy, fast, cold, satisfying food is important. We bought in bulk in Cabo Verde and moved them into the six-egg cartons we’d saved for months, having heard that packaging is not included. I used two layers of the cardboard egg crate (originally 30 eggs per later), torn down to 3×4, to keep up to 2 dozen in the fridge at a time. Since we’re down to just 4 eggs, I tossed that bulk-egg cardboard and just used the regular 6 pack carton. Unfortunately, it doesn’t fit tightly between the two plastic organizer bins. Between the less-secure wedge, the less-common port tack, the bigger waves, and a whole lot of glass salsa bottles filled with leftovers and pre-mades, all I had to do was pull out the juice bottle and the eggs got pushed right down into the deep drinks space by the leftovers which then tried to follow the eggs down. I caught most of the bottles before they took the dive but I couldn’t hold them back while also making up some system to keep them in place. I’d pulled the juice bottle because I was thirsty but finally admitted defeat and put it back while I made other plans. It was a big damn deal for a few drinks of laranja e pessago. And then there was Thanksgiving dinner! We had tuna in lemon butter with capers, drizzled with cream sauce with aromatic herbs, plus mashed potatoes with mushroom gravy, actual mushrooms sauteed in garlic butter, whole kernel corn, and cranberry loaf with straight-from-the-can texture. That’s six things we cooked on a two-burner stove with[…]
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