Diet not diet

So, I’m on the road.. car camping and working on TheBoat.. and my departure was.. hurried. I had wanted to be on the road by noon.. 3pm came and went.. and I also wanted to reach Hinton before crashing (made it.. sadly).

So, while I have some of the items I need.. I’m sadly lacking in certain areas. One being some of my cooking apparatus. I’ve borrowed a cool two- burner propane stove and that’s a groovy thing to have.. but I have nothing to cook with. So, visited a local thrift shop (SUPPORT LOCAL, y’all!) and picked up a frying pan. 

But I wanted pizza… 

No sweat.. I just used one of my bowls as a lid to capture the heat and turn a frying pan in to a sort of oven. 

There it is.. the element is set to really low as I wasn’t in a super huge rush to eat and I used a knife to vent- off and make it easier to lift the bowl.. it was an experiment.

Would I do this on the ocean? No way. My cooking set up will be FAR more systemized. Once the boat shell is built (save for certain parts of the sides) I’ll turn my attention to equipment, position, and stuff like that but right now I’m penciling in an “office- kitchen” area that sits just behind the captains chair and runs sideways there to.. in that space, I’ll be able to set up and cook for coffee, food, etc… and I’ll be able to open up the laptop and do some work. My music set up will be intermixed with the captains seat so I can compose as I pedal but when it comes to mixing, document design, photo editing- I prefer to do it on a desk type thing. We’ll see.

The result was pretty surprising. Sure, I added a bit too much oil to the pan to avoid sticking.. so the crust was almost deep fried.. next time, I think I’d start with a Naan instead of premade pizza shell.. and my own sauce. That’ll be a challenge for Next Time. 

as you can see.. not bad. An experiment in car camping NOT an experiment for the ocean. But- experimenting with ideas for car camping does have theoretical play offs to The Journey.

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