the restaurant at the end of the universe

Puffed rice, apple pulp, dried Apple and dark chocolate. The selection of healthy ingredients that I have here on board of the Space Station. Why don’t you try your recipe at home and send us a picture? Then we can see the difference making them in space. Here are my favorite ingredients here onboars, some from my bonus food and some from the ISS standard menu. But maybe you have some ideas to suggest for my very last week onboard? Maybe a meal according to the principles we’ve been talking about on Outpost42. I simply recreated the recipes of our chef Stefano, because I’m not a very creative cook. It’s a bit of work, for sure, but I enjoy being able to change the quantities of the different ingredients a bit to vary the overall taste.

I took with me a pretty good supply of read-to-eat pouches, but I also have the ingredients in separate pouches: it’s possible to assemble them onboard, although it can be quite a challenge in weightlessness. They are full meals, healthy and delicious! Usually our dishes are ready to eat or at least very easy to assemble: quick and easy! Did I mention already that my favorite dish is the wonderful quinoa salad with mackerel by Stefano Polato, the official chef of the Futura mission and of Outpost42? But the curry chicken with mushrooms and peas is great as well. Six month have passed already since the beginning the Futura mission and Node 1, our personal “Restaurant at the end of the universe” has witnessed many space meals, with dishes rehydrated or heated in our food warmer.

The restaurant at the end of the universe