Isla de Pascua: Easter Eggs!

This morning, Jon made a very special breakfast, Easter Island style: an onion and banana omelette! Now this may sound slightly strange to you, but believe us, it works. Try it like this: take a large, sweet and juicy onion and sweat it down gently in plenty of butter until translucent, adding three beaten eggs and then at the final stage, a chopped up ripe banana. Rapa Nui food tends to use the banana at every opportunity, sweet or savoury. You should try it, it’s really rather good!

And talking of food, Curry Night was a veritable feast, including another Easter Island staple: pineapple. Somehow, a hot, sweet and sour sauce is really lifted by the powerful red and yellow chillies we can find at each little greengrocers, together with large and juicy chunks of pineapple. We’re writing this on our penultimate night on the island: one week is just not enough to see all the wonderful archaeological sites, take in the stunning landscapes and multicoloured azure seascapes, chill, relax and generally recover from a punishing schedule around the continent. (Incidentally, that schedule is about to be resumed, so get out your maps and prepare to follow us around the northern zone of this expedition: it’s going to be hot and steamy!)
Tonight’s feast has just been Italian. An amazing chilli risotto, a hot Bolognese salsa, our ubiquitous tomato and onion salad, together with our trademark garlic bread. Now take a swift gander at the top of this blog; we did, after all promise you fantastic food. But as we wrote that, back in October, we had no idea that all the fantastic food we were promising would be home cooked. The fact is, this isn’t Asia. It’s certainly not Thailand with the street side woks rustling up heavenly flavours. Our dreams of getting hold of a heaped plate of food for under a dollar were shattered ages ago, but our food never fails! And it’s cheap!