Cooking aboard or outdoors

wow where do you find the time to fit this self-destruction-schedule in your daily routine?

 

Frosty
Do you know how to breathe?
I mean atheletic breathing, so you keep your CO2 level low. And don't get winded. Very necessary while high energy dancing. Dancing is a public display and supposed to be attractive. Wheezing, coughing, and spitting ISN'T!

Out of breath isn't lack of oxygen. It's too much CO2 in your blood. Breathe right, and no problem.

LOL. This time it really IS the CO2

 

are you asking Frosty? or me? I'm retired, so is Frosty.

 

In that case yobi no-- I dont get out of breath. I run till ive had enough, I dont drop to the floor gasping for life, actually I run with approx 60 to 100 others, when I stop to walk I talk. Old, young, men, women hashing is fun, some are over 70.

Where do I find time to do this?---well most Mondays and or any time in between 8am or 6 pm after that i'lle be in the pub.

Walking, dancing is not exercise, sorry and all that but--

 

Thinking about your post yobi yea I do breath in time with the legs. I breath out as the weight of my body hits the ground and it expels air from the lungs meaning Its almost automatic. I breath in the nose and out the mouth, usually 2 steps to an out and 2 to an in. I try not to vary that timing untll i'm tired then I stop near some one for a chat.

Sounds like a steam engine coming up behind you I suppose.

I can usually time my run to the music of Popeye when he gets the can of spinach out. always have since a kid ,--cant help it.

 

All good breathing techniques. You probably are doing deep abdominal breathing already. If not, google it. there's dozens of sites explaining.
The main thing is exhale completejy, exhausting lungs as much as you can.
It's most important to eliminate the CO2.
Excessive CO2 in your blood triggers a nerve in the pulmonary artery, and that triggers a huffing, puffing, panting response, "Out of Breath" we call it.

As to dancing not being an exercise? You didn't look at the youtube video I posted with the DANCE post. Did you?

 

There are different dances Frosty. Some are only slightly more energetic than walking. Other styles, latin high energy dances, are more intensive than sprinting!
I don't call untrained 'shake your booty' typical rock n roll bouncing around, dancing.
We do ballroom, western, and latin dancing. Emphasis on latin!


Aerobics can burn off up to 420 calories an hour for a fast and intense class.

Dancing. Salsa dancing could burn off more than 400 calories an hour, and ballroom dancing could lose 250 to 400 calories an hour, depending on how sedate it is.

Running can burn off anything up to 900 calories an hour but the way most people run, it could just be 450 calories an hour.

Walking can burn about 150 calories an hour up to 420 calories an hour, depending on pace or up steep hills.

Back to the thread.
James! Do you make tamales?

 

In fact yes. I went though a "phase", interested in the aetiology of food, and learned a great deal about the fusion of modern Latin American cuisine with ancient Mayan cooking, thanks in part to the Spanish intrusion/influence (depending on how your politics go).

I also learned the same complexity and perfection of a basic native staple diet from the French intrusion/influence on Vietnamese cooking.

So far as tamales go, I much prefer the Mexican/Cuban style of wrapping bland pork or chicken with masa in corn husk served with a spicy green or red mole Poblano.

Or should I suggest a mole Oaxaca or a mole TIaxcala. Who knew that people can come to blows, over the politics of a sauce?

 

Excellent!
But I prefer the bigger tamale wrapped in the bigger banana leaf. When steamed, the banana leaf gives a better flavor.

In Puerto Rico, they make 'Pastelles".
It's pretty much the tamale, except the masa includes grated plantain and grated sweet potatoe (white variety. Not a yam.). Also, they frequently imbed several small green unpitted olives in the center of the meat.
These are wrapped and tied in paper, then steamed.

If you know of other similar foods from around the world, I'd be interested in reading about them.

These are great boat foods.

 

I do want to apologize James. It's not my intention to pirate your thread. It is hard for me to separate food and health. They are all part and parcel of the same thing. Well Being!

 

Off the top of my head similar foods like Malaysian or Indonesian otak, conkies from the caribbean or even the Brazilian pamonha are all worth trying. They are remarkably similar.

 

thanks. I'll look them up.

 

You're apologising for nothing at all. In fact, if memory serves me well, daiquiri started this thread with an appetising pic of a fish peka... A black belt in cooking he claimed to be, and a claim I'd believe, though without any false modesty, I think I've given him a little competition.

Boston too, has made some worthy contributions in spite of his cremated chicken, as has Troy. You're own potato soup was rather noteworthy.

It's kinda funny, I subscribed to the site to learn a few things about boat building for my documentary/series and I'm totally enjoying this thread which was at first nothing more than an interesting distraction.

The unplanned outcome for me has been a cooking aboard video podcast series in the making and a book deal for three cook books designed for cruising sailers.

 

Sorry Daiquiri. James is right. You are the OP. Where are you? Miss your recipes!

I attribute much of my good health to a life long love of hot peppers.
High concentration vitamins C and D.
Anybody think my marrying a mexican lady was an accident?

Studies have shown that eating hot peppers can boost the metabolism by up to 25%, with the spike lasting for up to 3 hours. From cayenne to garlic to cinnamon, spices are one of the best ways you can keep your metabolic rates high. Especially speedy are the more pungent spices such as black pepper, mustard seeds, powdered onion and ginger. One Canadian study found the use of spices enabled people to burn up to 1,000 more calories daily than those not incorporating spices into their diet.

http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/...&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=scribol.com

1000 calories a day is equal to about what's burned in a two hour daily run.

Equal to 4 to 6 big baked potatoes.
Including the skin but with nothing yet added (no butter or toppings) there are:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_calories_in_a_baked_potato

•128 calories in a small baked potato (4.9 oz or 138g)
•161 calories in a medium baked potato (6.1 oz or 173g)
•278 calories in a large baked potato (10.5 oz or 299g)
•93 calories in a 3½ or 100g portion of baked potato
•25-27 calories in each ounce or 28g of baked potato




Also, I have no scientific studies to quote, but, my personal experience suggests hot peppers offset at least one of smokings detriments.
They say smoking anaesthetizes cell cilia that move the mucous out of the lungs. This stagnation in the lungs, scientists say, leads to emphysema and supposedly cancer ect.

Peppers MOST definitely encourage mucous to leave. Eat a hot pepper, and your eyes are watering, you're sweating. your nose is running!

My doctor is amazed! He can't understand why my lungs are clear after smoking for 50 years. I tell him it's hot peppers are responsible. I think maybe so. Maybe peppers wake those sleepy cilia up again!

He isn't interested in investigating. Doctors probably don't WANT to find something that makes smoking "less hazardess".



Ps. Dad and grandpa liked peppers too. Both smoked. Both lived to ripe old age. Neither suffered from emphysema or lung cancer, or any bronchial disorder.

 

Congratulations BIG TIME!