Cooking aboard or outdoors

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  1. troy2000
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    Never had smoked fish I didn't like....
     
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    A rather unexpected return of carp (an introduced species) is occurring in many menus of the high end restaurants along the Murray river here.

    Something I never expected to see and I've promised myself a trip north to the border to try it.
     
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    Potato, chorizo, red onion, parley, garlic and eggs... Five or so minutes in the BBQ with the hood down. A tortilla inspired brunch.
     

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    Seems I can let my ego swell a little. Second published recipe in Cruising Helmsman magazine.
     

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    I was a last minute addition to the catering crew on a party boat. I'd hardly consider it cooking, but..

    Arrange a little smoked salmon on a plate in a neat vertically textured pile, add a little shaved baby fennel bulb and some pickled mung beans and pickled white onion stained with a few drops of red food colouring. Top with a few fennel leaves and drizzle lightly with a little champagne vinegar and olive oil.

    You end up with something a whole lot better than smoked salmon with capers and sour cream!

    I was rather impressed with the microwave safe clear plastic plateware. I'd love to know who makes them.
     

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    Sounds good -- kind of a kissing cousin to Mexican-stylle pollo asado, using lemon grass instead of citrus juices.

    Let me doublecheck: you don't add any additional liquid to the marinade mix?

    I usually pickle onions in red wine vinegar, so they turn out fairly red anyway. But the food coloring trick is a good one to remember when I want them to look prettier.....
     
  7. Frosty

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    Personally there nothing more I like to tuck into as the day looses light as you get ready for a night at sea is very old and dried loaf of bread with a beer.

    I mean very hard old bread, a bit of mold is penicillin and keeps away sexually transmitted diseases or scurvy.

    Some times its so hard it need to be hit with a winch handle to crack it.

    This is far better than a wuffy plate of salad.

    Something you landlubbers would have not even considered is bulk. You dont want to eat heavy foods before you need a to be on watch for the next 14 hours of darkness.

    Think about it,---hardly need to trip to the toilet all the time when passing a shipping lane. Never even thought of that did you?

    Soup and crackers --told you before. Solo sailing does not include gourmet cooking or even cooking well. For the men here this will be obvious and part of the trip and sailing.
     
  8. J Feenstra
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    Don't forget banana's! They're great food for a toilet shy person ;)
     
  9. Frosty

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    I thought they were for monkeys!!!

    Any way a banana lasts only a few days, bit more than smoked salmon though.

    Look if we are going to talk food on a boat lets get real shall we.

    I dont live to eat, I eat to live. All this buelsh1t photogenic plates of totally impossible food on a boat .

    -------- Ok ille play,---- Makes something of 1 loaf of sliced bread --1 tin of tuna or spam. 1 packet of curry and a Dutch banana (thats a strait one due to Brussels directives)

    --its not difficult. Oh and hurry up its going dark.
     
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    And who decided to turn this thread into 'The Cooking Aboard While Sailing Solo' thread? Wasn't any of the men here, so I guess it was you?

    Most people with a sailboat don't spend their lives making single-handed passages. They usually go out for an afternoon, a day, a weekend, sometimes maybe a week or two. They don't have time to create hard, moldy bread that's up (or down) to your standards...;)
     
  11. Frosty

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    A week or two would do it?

    sailing solo without females is what its all about --let the bleeding ears heal up and get a fresh outlook on life, take a deap breath , beat the chest and back to work on Monday--you should try it.

    A loaf of hard bread needs to be experienced --if you dont like it your not hungry.

    Boat are not for whimps.
     
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    They are too hard to keep lit.
     
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    First time I've ever heard 'not a wimp' defined as 'doesn't like girls'.... maybe James is onto something with you after all.:cool:
     
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    No, I've added no additional liquids.
     

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    Didn't catch anything last night, so the backup was a chicken rather than a fish roulade done on the BBQ with the hood down.

    Apparently it's snapper season but they are late for their own party.
     

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