Flashlight-in-your-teeth-change-the-bottle-two-step...

We use propane for cooking and grilling aboard "So It Goes" and it's a fact of life that we always run out of gas in the middle of cooking at night... Oh the fun and frolic of doing the flashlight-in-your-teeth-change-the-bottle-two-step!

That said, we seem to get a lot of cooking out of a 20 pound tank of propane as a tank lasts about 2 1/2 months which works out to a bit less than 27¢ a day.

Musing on the price of chicken...

I have always liked chicken wings, and truth be told given the choice grilled chicken wings always works for me...

The last few times shopping I've noticed that chicken wings are priced just about the same as chicken breasts. Fact is, just about any sort of cut up chicken now seems to be the same price per pound... Odd! Not sure if it is a local thing confined to the USVI but it does throw out a whole new slant on things as while I still love chicken wings they do suffer greatly on the bang for the buck scale if par with other cuts of chicken.

Meanwhile Grilling Companion makes a great case for wings...

Where I go for information on rum...

Ed Hamilton is the The Man from the Ministry of Rum and what better place to start than Rum 101!

Tasty...

Stone Soup does it again...

Rum and spice...

Serious Eats continues with their rum series How to Make Spiced Rum From Scratch
and only one word comes to mind... YES!

Pancakes...

Chuck and Laura Rose make pancakes on their Albin Vega 27...

Serious Eats is talking rum...

Today's installment... Can spiced rum be serious?

A quest for a decent Mai Tai...

It's pretty amazing when you think about it, but I don't think you can get a decent Mai Tai anywhere in the Caribbean...

Beachbum Berry (my main resource when it comes to Tiki culture and libations) has been on  something of a quest for Mai Tai's in Europe and having a lot better luck than he'd find here in the Caribbean. You should also note a previous post of his on the correct recipe for a Mai Tai... You might be surprised!

A good read...

A great (albeit in French) explanation on why dried fruits and vegetables make sense on a boat...

Check it out!

Just the thing...

Garbanzo beans or Chickpeas are a very boat friendly staple and Smitten Kitchen has a great way to use them in Spaghetti with chickpeas...

A quick pre-Thanksgiving thought...

Most folk have more sense than to deep fry a turkey on a boat but then again, a lot of folks just voted Republican, so you can't be too careful...



That said, you may want to reconsider that deep fried T-Day Turkey in the cockpit idea...

Chocolate cakes...

Stone Soup does chocolate cake in four ingredients...

 More importantly she does it right!