For this expedition, your formal focus for ADV110 was your menu and food preparation for a group. This was one of three group cooking experiences you will have this year. For this blog, please review the goals we listed (see below) and spend some time thinking about the following questions before writing. As I mentioned to you earlier, I am expecting to see evidence of quality time reflecting and writing about your cooking experience.
Goals:
- nutritious
- withstand limited refrigeration
- tastes good
- easy to prepare
- sanitary preparation
- offers variety
- $8 pppd
- theme
- nice presentation
Planning
- How well did your recipes address your goals? Identify those goals accomplished, and those that could be better addressed next time.
- How well did your shopping list reflect what you actually purchased?
Preparation
- Comment on the quality of your meals.
- How could you prepare the meals differently in the future that might better achieve your goals? Consider everything from purchasing ingredients and repackaging to packing and cooking.
- Did both members of your group have equal responsibility in the preparation? Why or why not?
Presentation
- Were your meals well presented?
- What extra steps did you take to provide an appealing presentation?
- How did you incorporate your theme into your presentation?
And finally, reflect upon your sailing experience on the Haley and Matthew. Address the following:
- How did this experience live up to the expectations you identified last week?
- What were the high points of the trip? What were the low points?
- How do you feel about your nautical navigation skills after this experience?
- Compare sailing the Haley and Matthew to sailing the Flying Junior dinghies.
- What is your impression of the schooner and windjammer tourism industry here in Maine?
- How do you think you performed individually on the expedition? How do you think you performed as a group?
We will discuss some of these in class on Thursday, Nov. 1 from 1:00 to 4:00.
5 comments:
As far as preparation goes I think my group did a pretty good job. The our meals were good tasting, filling, pretty easy to prepare, under budget, and fairly nutritious. If we were planning all the meals for a longer trip then more veggies would have been included. Sure the presentation wasn’t four star, but it was I thought it was respectable for what it was were it was. And our shopping list was an exact match with what we bought minus what was already on hand.
Well as Barret told me, our dinner might not have been fancy or out of the ordinary but it was enjoyable and filling. We did well at prepping before the trip. The only thing that could have possibly been better would be if we had more time to make the dumplings reducing the sauce and thoroughly cooking them more, however we were on a time constraint.
Our lunch and dinner didn’t really lend themselves to an elaborate presentation. That said I thought those muffin loafs looked great sitting there that last mourning with coffee in hand.
The trip was close to what I had expected. I was hoping to get to Bar Harbor, but what can you do. High point was probably manning the helm while going seven plus knots on wind power alone. It isn’t really a low point, but I was expecting the petroglyphs to be much more impressive. I’m not going to comment on my nautical nav skills until after the final. Sailing the Haley and Matthew was definitely fun and I do want to go on more multi-day sailing trips, but the small Flying Junior dinghies were more exciting. When it comes to the windjammer tourism industry, while I won’t rule out working a summer or two in it, it doesn’t jive with my long term goals on its own. Now this isn’t a cop out when I say that I’m incapable of judging my own performance in an area I know so little about. The group as a whole though I would say did alright, but wasn’t really into it constantly muttering to turn on the diesel.
For preparation i think that our group did an exceptional job. We thought about the fact that not everyone eats meat and found a way to work around it. It also helped that i had mark in my group and he is vegetarian. We also to into consideration that when we went shopping we had a limited amount of money, ($8 pppd) which came out to be about $100 that we could spend on groceries, since we used a lot of dried foods like flour, sugar, etc... it was fairly cheap. The dried foods also help with sanitation, we didn't have to worry about foods going bad. When we wnt shopping all the items we bought were already on our list.
Our meals were simple yet filling, we tried to make sure that everyone got enough to fill there stomach, and we decided that dessert would be a good pick me up in case things didn't go so well. some of the things that could have gone better was we could have cooked some of the food longer like the dumpling.
As for the trip it went closely to what i had expected, my goals were to have fun and learn more about nautical navigation. Which i definetly had fun, and our group had lots of class time so i understand the S=D/T and how to calculate for set and drift, which will come in handy when i have to know all this for the final we are going to take on Tues. I had lots of fun sailing on the Haley and Matthew was a unique experience since i had never been on such a large sail boat, I'm not sure if thats is something I would ever like to do for a job but just the same it was still a fun trip.
As a group we worked well to get the boat from point A to point B and back, we also had time to make an unexpected trip to the hospital and hog island.
My recipes addressed the taste good, refrigeration sanitary and them goals set up on the trip. Goals that could have been better addressed are ease to prepare, 8USD per person, variety and better theme. I could put more thought into each meal choice and try to be more original.
I stuck to my shopping list for the most part with my meals. Snacks were assigned to me last min. so this is where i had to deviate from my list.
I believe my meals were of very good quality considering the buget we were on. But I do not think I am the one to ask, the group should be asked this.
I could have bought more in bulk but i think that my packing worked out great.
Both members did have equal responsibility in the preperation. The reason for this is because thats how a group works the load is split between members to ease the load.
I beleive that my breakfast was presented very nicely although my lunch could have been better. Reason for this is that everyone came down at different times so a real presentation was not allowed.
I made a buffet style presentation for lunch and breakfast so that people could grap what they liked out of the choices we gave.
I added salsa to the eggs for a more western flavor and the deli sandwichs were put forth in a subway style.
The boat rocked more then i imagined but it was relitively nice and there wasent as much fighting between people as i had feared.
The high point was Hog Island the history of the site was amaizing. The low was the navigation that we had to do and the socratic questioning was starting to get to me toward the end.
I feel that i could use my navigation skills if I needed to and get by but i wouldent volunteer to navigate.
The dinghies were more exciting and touchy but the Haley and Matthew gave that big ship experiance. it also made me feel like a pirate.
It seems that the schooner tourism industry is growing and that if you like to sail alot it isent a bad area to get into.
I think I performed well on the expedition with the exception of when I got sea sick. I also thing the group preformed well and that we got alot acomplished.
The recipes that we had decided to do I think reflected out goals quite clearly. Our first meal being the tuna fish sandwiches. We covered most of the goals, but leaving out 8 dollars per person per day. We did this to focus most of our funds into our main meal of the Pasta with Alfredo and scallops. Over all, we did cover all of our goals, but more or less put more time and effort into our dinner because we thought it would be a more satisfying meal for everyone. I was defiantly working harder to make the dinner a better presentation. The problems that we had run into was that serving tuna on the first day might have not been the best idea, because we did not know how everyone would do with it once we got moving, and I don’t think it turned out for the best once people started feeling sick. Our shopping list reflected everything we purchased. We had more than enough pasta, and I think we could have possibly got more alfredo sauce, but we came out just right after we had got done serving. Also we could of got another head of broccoli just so we could serve more.
Our preparation went perfect with both out meals. Our quality never went down when we had to have more, but I think that the pasta could have been cooked better. The timing for the dinner came out well, but I think we tried to push it a little bit. If we were to prepare the meals differently, I would have had more food. Because you can never go wrong with more food. I think with what we had, we had done well, do I don’t think many changes needed to be made. The only real change though I think I would make would be to get fresh scallops instead of frozen ones. With the responsibilities of the group, I had matt do more of the tuna fish lunch deal, and I tried to focus on the dinner. He is better at preparing the tuna and making it edible. I don’t think I could have accomplished that. But with the dinner, I tried to focus on cooking, while he worked on prep so that we could make it with good timing. Overall I think we worked well as a team with different skills and down falls.
I would have liked to make our presentation more formal at the time, but at the time we were underway, so we had to do shifts with the food. I would have liked to also added some fresh parsley as a garnish, but I did not think it was going to be necessary to add more onto our shopping list. Our extra steps to make our meal presentable were to make sure everything was cooked all the way, and had a nice appetizing smell to attract hungry sailors. Which I think worked. Our theme that we had for both meals was a little bit of coastal sailing and fisherman kind of meal. We had seafood in both our meals, which is an assumption that every fisherman likes seafood. We would of liked to have it so we could explain our meals as we presented it, but when it was time to eat for every meal, it was sort of brushed off because of every ones hunger.
My expectations for the Haley and Matthew we high, and I think it met every one of my standards. It was quite satisfying that I could go back to my own room at night and read or do whatever I needed to do, and from what I have heard, that was not the case on last year’s trip. The high points for me were the first day when everyone was gone but mark and I at the helm. It was absolutely riveting going up and down those huge swells, and just having quite while sailing along the coast. Nautical navigation I thought was a lot easier when on the boat because it’s a real life situation compared to sitting in the room looking at charts and plotting courses. Because when you’re out there, you can actually see what you’re plotting your course towards. So I think on the boat, I did get to learn some new things, but improvement is always an optional. Sailing the Haley and Matthew was very different than the little dinghies, one because the rudder movement is completely different with the lag time and all the other variables that you don’t have to think about when on a little dinghy. The schooner industry in Maine I think is only going to get bigger. One because of programs such as Adventure Recreation and Tourism. That’s only going to help the industry grow larger and then boost the Maine economy. But my first impression of the industry is that most of the cruses that are taken are booze cruises with whales. But of course nothing can go wrong with mixing alcohol and a schooner.
Other than busting my head open before breakfast, and having to take a 3 hour delay, I thought I did well as an individual on the trip. I tried to not let my head injury slow me down, and I tried to be on top of things. As a group, I thought we performed very well. We didn’t have much arguing (we don’t normally) and we worked well when the sails had to go up or the anchor had to be pulled. No complaints overall.
For me planning a meal was cinder hard because I don’t know what kind of food ether people like to eat. Likely I had a Taylor in my group he know what are good alternative for some people’s I think are alfratel and scallops came out good. Lunch is a different story we should of pick something besides tuna fish I think the them is a fisher man meal
I think the trip went well I was hoping we would make it to bar harbor
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