Life in Raro as We Know It -Team Raro has an Outing

Wednesday
After our quite Lo-Al Day, we got back into it.
Lana was determined to get The Graham Green, right, so she made it from a recipe we found on the Internet and a big improvement
We only used the little cocktail glasses, as it was midday

So it was Cold Roast Pork and Ms Lana’s excellent German Potato Salad for lunch.

Lana got this recipe off a website, that she subscribes to
www.cookscountry.com
She thought this sounded interesting and we did like it
Girls in the kitchen

Went particularly well with the cold roast Pork.


2 tablespoon sugar
1 cucumber peeled quartered. Seeded and cut into ¼ inch slice
½ cup white vinegar
½ tsp dried dill
S &P


3 pounds small red potatoes scrubbed and sliced ¼ inch thin
½ cup white vinegar
Salt

8 slice of bacon chopped
1 onion minced
¼ cup olive oil
¼ cup coarse grain mustard
¼ cup chopped parsley

First
Turn the cucumbers into a quick pickle
Add sugar, vinegar, dill and salt to cucumbers
Leave 20 minutes
Then
Bring potatoes, ½ cup vinegar, 1 tsp salt and 8 cups of water to boil
Simmer till just tender,10-15 minutes
Drain and return to pot

While potatoes cooking
Make dressing
Fry bacon in large skillet over med heat until crisp

Drain
Discard all except for 2 tablespoons fat
Add olive oil
Add onion and cook to soften just lightly browned

Drain cucumber,
Reserve juice
Whisk juice with mustard and 1 tsp pepper
Add to skillet, bring to simmer

Pour dressing over warm potatoes and leave to absorb the dressing
About 20 minutes
Stir parsley, drained cucumber and bacon into potatoes
Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary
Transfer to serving bowl and serve

It will keep a day in airtight container in the fridge

Very nice.
Quiet day, people grabbed rays when available
Mr Heinz laboured over the Jigsaw

6pm Start Old people’s hours.
The compulsory photo.
The camera person moi was a little previous on the shot

Here ya that's better

Off to Waterline. To be fair it was early but we did want to see the sunset..
We were joined by Tim and Tina, The Tipitinas. They are on their last days.


Waterline was a great favourite of ours from previous visits… the first time we went there with Sheryl and Michael 2005. God hasn’t that time flown.
So off we went again.
We all ordered cocktails. We think that we should take a hip flask with some vodka or something just for a little top up, we have found them a bit weak. But pretty though.

Anyway, something worked, as you can see, from the shape we all ended up,
Maybe it might have had something to do with the many bottle of wine, consumed!
Ate the Ika Mata… Sorry restaurants, you cant shape up to the men in our family’s versions. Dan and Chris Rock

Parrot fish was fish of the day, mine came with a nice mushroom sauce. Tasty.

The Team Shot

So the alcohol kicked in

Then the band came out. They were excellent,

Chris the owner did a set as well. Musical family.
We did have a good time but it was an expensive night out.
Probably enhanced, by the large pre-dinner cocktails and a substantial amount of wine.
But as Dale said, you don't go holiday to save money.
Good food, but we do just as well at home. Will do lunch next time.