We finally emerged from the Great Northern Zone of No Internet, and I finally attained email, which isn’t necessarily a boon. I’m pretty sure I can post more regularly now, and larger photos, too. But I won’t tempt fate.
And, as it’s late in the day (we land at Jan Mayen tomorrow after two days at sea), I’ll just put up the desserts I had in the last day. I swear, the food is very good here, and I try to eat fairly healthy main courses (always with a salad), but the desserts, which are copious and scrumptious, will be the death of me. It’s a good thing the voyage and its meals are time-limited.
Here, enjoy, and of course I’ll have a full account of the trip later, complete with photos. Remember, I limit myself to three small dessert items out of a selection of seven or eight. I will call that “abstemious.”
Dessert at yesterday’s lunch: some kind of trifle with fruit (a BIG dessert) and a small thick vanilla custard with cherries:
Dessert at yesterday’s dinner: a different kind of trifle with raspberry, peach, and cranberry layers, along with tarte citron with a candied lemon slice on top:
On sea days they have teatime in the bistro at 4 pm, and since I deliberately skipped lunch today (yes, food fatigue can set in), I went for tea. Along with the pastry selection, there were cucumber sandwiches, and tuna sandwiches. I had the latter, along with a small piece of pineapple cake and a rather large bowl of chocolate ice cream topped with warm cherries jubilee.
You will be banned for food-shaming, as I always say when I travel. I never eat like this at home, having a latte in the morning, no lunch, a moderate dinner, and NO dessert.
Note: they don’t have desserts at breakfast, but you can still get your load of fat and sugar there should you so desire.
p.s. I repeat: NO FOOD SHAMING!
Where is the local cuisine?! The seal tartare? The omelette Guillemot?
We did have reindeer meat one meal, as I recall, but I didn’t have any (they do raise them for meat and their pelts, which lose their fur very soon).
If smoked reindeer shows up (rökt ren in Swedish), you should make sure to have some.
Any pickled herring? Smoked herring or salmon? Cloud berries? Moose meat (they call them “elk/elg” in Norway)?
Surely they have smoked salmon for breakfast?
Glad you are having a good time. Thanks for sharing your travels with us. I love it!
That candied lemon is a nifty idea …
might have to find a way to make those…
No food shaming from me.
Is food envy allowed?
A big +1! I was looking for the words….got the “no food shaming for me” on my own, but really like the “food envy”!
Oooh. Those desserts look great!
Such beautiful deserts. There is plenty of time to be abstemious after the cruise is over, enjoy this lovely food with abandon, I say.
Shame you!? I was going to scold you for limiting yourself to only three deserts! If you think of it, take might take some pictures of the entire desert bar, so we can vicariously enjoy all the deserts you’re not eating, as well.
You seem to have a pretty impressive chef on your cruise.
Hear hear!
I always enjoy seeing the foodie photos.
I commend you for your discipline and your fine choices in desserts. I am afraid I would be tempted to live on desserts for the entire cruise. I hope your are having a fabulous trip! Wish I could be there!
Tsk! We KNOW how you eat at home, boss. Respect.
But I speak for all of us homebound, non-seafaring WEITers…. enjoy it. I’m a diabetic but I’d MURDER those desserts. It’d be a custard-bath, glasse fruits everywhere.
I’d be like the damn cookie monster!
Num num num!
D.A.
NYC
Certainly grander than the whale watch I did 2 months ago at Kaikoura.
I’m sorry I have no photos.
Looks divine! We are looking forward to an Antarctica cruise with Hurtigruten.
A friend of mine was/is very heavily into kayaking, primarily sea kayaking. He got involved with people who make their own skin and frame kayaks. This led to contacts with Greenland Inuit, who invited him to a remote town in Greenland for kayak building and paddling events.
He wasn’t as fortunate as you are with food in the Arctic. This was a remote town. Only local food, which included a lot of seal blubber. He’s a pretty adventurous eater; but he came back many pounds lighter and resolved to carry food next time he went there.
Aside from the food he had an amazing time, including helping to teach young Greenlanders how to paddle and build kayaks. This trust from the older Greenlanders was quite an honor. (He is an extremely skilled kayaker and taught me everything I know about kayaking.)
You will never get food shaming from me, on the contrary I am impressed with what you can eat when you want to – these days I eat once in the evening and rarely have anything during the day unless I wake super early in the morning. As for eating out, that is not possible except in one local eatery that actually has pensioner portions, even with those I can struggle with a main course while I think back to my youth when I could happily have appetizer, starter, main, sweet, coffee, mints and still have room for a cheese board at some point in the meal! Happy days and you are lucky you can still do it from time to time.