Want a super easy and SO tasty salad to go with your next grilled supper? The cool thing is that it can be made with all fresh ingredients: peppers, parsley, garlic. Or for us folks on boats who don’t always have access to the fresh things, you can use bottled roasted peppers and Gourmet Garden parsley and garlic. Garlic is very easy to store onboard but I always provision tubes of the Gourmet Garden for back-up. My faves are parsley,…
I’m getting back into my boat rhythm. For those of you land-based folks it may be hard to understand but having to get used to working in confined spaces takes a day or two of adjusting. Captain Francois and I have to rebalance what I call our ‘boat dance’, manoeuvring around each other, without knocking things, or each other over. Over the past winter in our land kitchen, I kept my galley mentality in tact as much as possible, carefully…
Me again proselytizing about ‘cooking once eating many times’. Last time we conversed it was all about making lots of chick peas in your pressure cooker. …Same tack…different ingredient: Chicken or whatever meat turns your winch, grilled one night with enough leftovers that can be used for so many other delicious meal for the following few days. (4 chicken breasts = 1 main meal for 2 hungry sailors + enough shredded meat for 2 more meals) Today I’m in a…
Captain Francois was so encouraged by the response of his ‘flagship’ recipe post, Spicy Italian Crescent Ring that we are thinking of making Captain Cooks a regular occurance (and you know how Galley Kat feels about recipe series) This turned out to be a very ‘ad hoc’ recipe – some of this, some more of that …as you would dress a pizza… …he makes his own shopping list and does the shopping too now. …what does this have to do…
Today I was doing my usual browsing through recipes for ideas and I came across one that caught François’ attention: spicy, Italian, and meaty. and then he announced: “I want to make that!” Really? So this was the day the Galley Kat stepped back and let ‘he who offered to cook’ take over. …(happily)… …he shopped… …and returned with all his treasures… …I offered help and he gave me this look… (“back off! this is my show!”) …’OK, so…
Roasted Red Pepper Dip Ingredients: 1 small Onion chopped 2 cloves Garlic sliced 1/4 cup olive oil 12 ounces Roasted red peppers approx 1-3/4 cups 1/2 cup Walnuts 1/2 cup Fresh basil packed 1 slice White bread chopped 2 tablespoons Lemon juice Salt & pepper to taste In skillet saute garlic and onion in oil till tender and transparent. I have omitted this step from time to time but sauteed gives a smoother taste. In food…