This is really good...

A great BBQ fix...

One of the most difficult parts of cooking on a cruising boat is that so called "marine" stoves and grills are, at best, pretty awful (I won't go into the part about them being way too expensive).

Right now we have an OK grill/BBQ. It gets hot enough to cook stuff but not quite as hot as I'd like and it really does not throttle down to where I'd like it to either. That said, it is OK considering every other propane BBQ we have had has been lots worse.

I have been considering swapping out the anemic burner for some time but it is nice to see that others with the same problem have already sorted out the problem and come up with a workable and affordable solution...

Check out Boat Projects for everything you need to know!

Biscuits, chorizo, and sweet potatoes...

How did I miss this on Homesick Texan?

Provisions... A few thoughts on the dried stuff

I've been meaning to catch up on provisioning and it's funny how things change when looking at what you've eaten in hindsight.

For instance, we've eaten a lot of dried carrots over the last few months due to the fact that carrots have been silly expensive of late and at best rather low quality. Looking down the shopping list it also becomes apparent that the same could be said for broccoli. At $3.69 a pound broccoli has us reaching for the dried stuff on a regular basis...

The other dried vegetables we use all the time is the Harmony House dried vegetable soup mix that we never use as a soup but more of a throw-a-handful-in-the pressure-cooker-with-whatever-we-are-cooking-for-a-vegetable-boost sort of thing. Seriously, I should buy this stuff by the case...

Seriously ono...

Ever wondered what Epic Meal Time would be like if they were not haole shark bait from Canada but hailed from an island in the Pacific?

Yeah, I thought so...



Ono...

Floating sweat shops...

It's a scary world...

We've touched upon about how a lot of the greed connected to big business commercial fishing is harmful to the environment. Sadly, it's easy to forget that there is a human toll as well... Check out the ever excellent "The Old Salt Blog" for more on the dark side.

Color me impressed...

Over at HIP Pressure cooking an exceptional way to cook a whole chicken!

Waffles, waffle irons and percieved wisdom...

I just made waffles...

Sundays aboard "So It Goes" is pretty much always a waffles for breakfast affair. For this to happen we have to have a waffle iron and for a space-constrained galley you have to consider the wisdom of having a pan or tool that only has one purpose and the general advice going around is that if it only does one thing you should do without it...

So not wanting to swim upstream or go against perceived wisdom of other more experienced sailors we did without a waffle iron for years...

Which leads us to our hand powered blender which works really well and is oh-so-practical and can be used for countless galley jobs and makes a mean Margarita to boot. A galley tool that no one would suggest superfluous to the cruising lifestyle and some might even say something of a requirement... and we've used it twice. I guess we are simply not blender folk.

Which points out that a lot of perceived wisdom and good advice does not actually have a lot to do with how you actually live your life and run your galley and should be taken into account when you are making galley and provisioning decisions.

So now I get to have waffles on Sunday and life is good...