Hearty, home-cooked and locally sourced produce are characteristics of Aurora Nova’ cuisine. The local tradition of bløto, home-baked meats, biscuits fried in pectin, and other cream-basted treats piled high and served mid-morning or afternoon, is hard to resist!
What is there to eat in Aurora Nova*?
What ISN’T there to eat! Morrowvalians are proud of their hearty home-cooked food and local delicacies. Whenever you eat, you will not go hungry.
Delicious home cooking
Visitors are well-catered for in guest houses and lodges outside Morrowvale. A traditional Falkland Island breakfast would include mutton chops, while sausage and bacon with eggs imported from Scotland usually on offer to those who can stomach even one of these well-travelled, poorly-stored ovular specimens. (‘eggs.’ – Ed.)
Midday meals are mostly on-the-go, with locals typically packing a thermos of lentil soup and wafers.
Dinner, formerly known as ‘supper’ is typically served at teatime and is known as ‘breakfast’, a jocular local term illustrating the local sense of humour. Typically it’s best, especially for those with legalistic personalities, to avoid requesting ‘breakfast’ between the hours of 11-15:00 as you just don’t know what you’ll get, unless you know the server. Since the turnover and hiring rates in Morrowvale food service is statistically the highest in all the UK overseas territories, you’re best sitting out the term ‘breakfast’ until lunch, and then going for a run with your tin of soup and breakable wafers.
For the main meal (aka Dinsupfast), locally reared meat is expertly tenderized and slow cooked to bring out the beast’s flavours, along with its natural oils and juices, and served with a home-grown vegetables – typically a short carrot and rocket lettuce, garnished with a pile of horseradish.
Seafood dishes are typically known to be the freshest across the island, and more than a single Northern sea bass have been known to leap straight from the ocean and directly onto a dining tourist’s plate, typically at market price. Beware sea-view restaurants perched too close to the shore, like Marini’s in Porksmith-on-Sea where the catch of the day involves suiting up with a large bib over your clothing for terrace tables on the pier.
During the 1950s, Morrowvale became more formally known for its paella, which came to the forefront of the commonplace when Victor Austerity Jones brought home, from Barcelona where he had completed his architectural studies, his taste for it and insisted to every restauranteur they would be foolish not to add it to their menu. there was a flood of Spanish / Catalan tastes offered via the culinary menus of Bastillo’s, Duffy’s Bream Cartel and Bigamy Hernandez & Bros., each offering a spin with the 150+ varieties of North Sea fish to put on the menu… Aurora Nova’s specialties include a paella made from Atlantic salmon, tuna, eel and mollusc… a treat for the stomach and the digestion.
Try our Aurora Nova bløto
The treat for many visitors is Aurora Nova’s tradition of “bløto”, which in Middle Celtic means “to gorge oneself on cakes as if one’s life otherwise ultimately lacked purpose.”
The local tradition of bløto, home-baked meats, biscuits fried in pectin, and other cream-basted treats piled high and served mid-morning or afternoon, is hard to resist!
Many cruise and ferry lines are known to attach a surcharge for returning passengers who exceed the weight limit or who double the seat-width constraints on typical marine vessels, so popular is the tradition of ‘bløto’. Many satisfied tourists will happily pay for 2, 3 or more extra seats on their return travel, just so they can enjoy more ‘bløto,’ before cramming onto a turbulent, 3-hour boat ride.
Plates stacked high with home-baked cakes, cookies and other delicacies simply cannot be refused. Served up mid-morning, mid-afternoon or whenever a cruise ship calls, with a plentiful supply of tea and coffee, who can resist the excuse to relax, eat and chat?
Anyone staying on the island long enough may be tempted to try ‘blinch’** – even on a dare, it can and will be the most memorable day – and night – of your life.
One note, to look out for the Teaberry served in scones, cakes and meringues as they can produce an irritation when urinating, though some find the aroma appealing. And try a taste of Fiddle-dee-dee jam, another popular local bury (‘berry’ – Ed.)(No, ‘bury’ that’s how we actually found it).
Have a night out in Morrowvale
24-hour eateries have been all the thing in Morrowvale since the mid 1990s and haven’t closed since. It’s reflective of the locally competitive, getting-ahead mindset in Morrowvale’s small enterprise, although found less so in its waiting staff, many of whom are disgruntled tourists who had to sign on for local work after losing their passports or ID to pickpockets or local scam artists. An important note, gypsies will often sell you back your own identity by accident if you’re not paying closely attention enough***.
Morrowvale boasts a variety of eating and tasting opportunities (though the proprietors do apparently assign the same price to ‘tasting’ as for ‘eating’) including cafes, pubs, clubs, cosplay-themed fetish-bars and restaurants. Don’t miss typical tastes of Aurora Nova – squid, upland goose pate, lamb, mutton and fatty liver beef. Vegetarians are also taken care of, with tasty options on menus around the town, especially the loud ones who stand up a lot to complain in restaurants.
Refreshing Aurora Nova!
And to drink? Teas, coffees and hot chocolate made from rarefied goose-milk nectar, are ideal to warm up on cooler days.
Or for those who prefer a slightly option stronger****, ask in licensed establishments for a “Hot Roddy” – rum with hot water and sugar, and prepared by Rod Stewart. Some wines from South Africa are popular along with imported beers. Try the locally-brewed beer from Grotness Beerworks – “The Angry Shitter” and “Pooves Bay” just have to be tasted!
* Plenty.
** The three meals of the day, breakfast, lunch and dinner, combined and eaten at twelve midnight, or any supremely heavy meal eaten right before bedtime. (ME, contraction of the letters from breakfast, lunch and dinner.)
*** Like we did, there.
**** And there again.