Just in... Kraken reviews

 Check out the reviews of the new hip rum Kraken over at Bitter End...

We're interested in this rum as they certainly have a pretty awesome advertising program and a sense of fun but we will reserve our opinion until we have a bottle in hand!

A slightly new direction...

We have been getting quite a few requests to beef up the cruising cookbook and living aboard frugally content here at "An Island Gourmand" and while we are happy to oblige it does bring up a misconception about what food on a cruising sailboat should be...

Over and over we hear people talking about cruising cuisine as if it were some sort of dire punishment rather than what it should be... Real Food!

So while we will beef up the cruising content please do not expect us to forgo good food for add a can of this to a can of that and hey presto we have something that almost makes spam edible mish-mash recipes.

Soon come...

Dumplings...

I've always loved dumplings... On a boat they make all kinds of sense in the tropics for the bread component even though a lot of people have a cold weather and dumplings go together mindset. As chicken is also the cheapest and most available protein in the Caribbean this recipe for Chicken and dumplings from Homesick Texan is just the thing!