To Do Item 1 – Eating

Easily one of my favourite pastimes, there’s no escaping the fact, I love food!

Pitcairn weckle (food) is quite Polynesian in the types of food and the way that it’s cooked. Most food here is fried is vast quantities of oil, then drenched in coconuts milk – totally delicious and very bad for the waistline.

Probably one of Pitcairns most important foods is the Breadfruit which grows in abundance here. Its importance is due to the fact that this fruit is the reason that people live on this little island at all. (Refer to the story of the Mutiny on the Bounty)


Breadfruit is quite starchy inside and once it starts to get ripe, it goes all soft and smells quite sweet. Pitcairners tend to use them before they start to soften. The most popular way to cook breadfruit is to just boil it. However, you can fry into crunchy chips, cut up for stew or cook any way that you would a potato. Normally served with meat, it makes for a filling and delicious side.



This fellow was caught by my uncle for a ship.


To his disappointment (and my gain!) the ship decided that they didn’t want lobster, so my uncle donated his catchings for the eating. I didn’t get around to cooking this chappy straight away, so delivered him into the freezer until cooking time. Yum…