Sunday, February 27, 2011

I want this book...

The other day I was looking for a recipe to make some seitan and proceeded to do a search and came across just the thing and a great blog in the process.

Face it, how can you resist a food blog with a name like Post Punk Kitchen?

Even better, not only did they have the seitan recipe I was looking for but a bunch of other recipes featuring seitan that just called out "Try me..."


Some of you may already know Isa Chandra Moskowitz from her cookbooks like "Vegan With a Vengeance" (another great title) but for me she is something of a new discovery and one I plan to follow in the future...

Saturday, February 26, 2011

How I like my oysters...

Over at Homesick Texan... Some thoughts on oysters and a recipe that is exactly how I'd like my oysters cooked.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

A knife of choice and dealing with an epidemic...

On "So It Goes" I have a LOT of knives...

Off hand, I believe they sneak on to the boat and into the galley when I'm off doing other things as I simply did not buy them. Apparently knives must have legs!

The fact is, the knife that I use for 90% of my cooking needs is a cheap stainless light cleaver that was part of an all-the-knives-you-need-for-$19.99 sort of set.


I really like this knife as it holds an edge, does not rust and does all you want a knife to do (you know slice,dice and chop) really well.
On the other hand, I could use one of those awesome $600+ knives that hold an edge, slice, dice, and chop while putting up with a little rust as being part of the equation of having a $600 knife... But hey, since I only want to slice, dice, chop and feel no need to impress people with the fact that I can afford a $600 knife my cheapie cleaver is just the thing! Truth is, if I were to lose my cleaver I'd replace it with something like this.

For the other 10% of my knife usage the task gets shared by maybe four knives (more about those in another post) and it raises the question of why, if I only use five knives, do I have like two dozen?

Right now since I'm in the middle of a galley refurb, I have to make a decision whether to build in storage for the overpopulation of knives or jettison said knives and gain some space in the process...

Duh!

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

A very important message from Island Gourmand...

It's National Margarita Day...

Got your Triple Sec?

Monday, February 21, 2011

A helpful link...

The Boat Galley has another helpful set of downloads and the theme is PORK!

One of the first things we noticed when we were living and cruising in Europe is that meat cuts are a lot different and being able to show a butcher sorta/kinda what you are looking for is a huge help...

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Thursday, February 17, 2011

The perfect can opener...

I've mentioned before that on "So It Goes" we try and keep canned goods to the bare minimum... Canned tuna, green beans and corn being the most likely suspects to be found aboard.

We do, however, have a most excellent can opener. It's fool proof, always works and cost less than a dollar...

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Wings...

Chicken wings are something of a conundrum for me...


 Of course, chicken wings are tasty and all but WTF has happened to what chicken wings cost? The other day we were shopping and wings cost the same as breasts, Face it, as much as I like wings for the same price chicken breasts win out every time.

Luckily we can adapt any wing recipe (like this great one from the charter yacht "Three Moons") to breasts or thighs...

Friday, February 4, 2011

A few words about the nature of food we buy and hummus...

The other day I saw the local store had a "hip" over-priced hummus on sale and being lazy (and cheap) bought it...

When I got it home and gave it a try it was not really hummus in any shape or form. Not that it was bad exactly, but it simply was not hummus. Sort of the hummus niche of what Cheese Whiz is to real cheese. Which leads me to believe that there are a lot of people who don't really know what a lot of things are supposed to taste like.

For a really good post about hummus check out The Homemade Hummus Challenge over at the Paupered Chef!

Thursday, February 3, 2011

a needful link...

The Boat Galley has an excellent resource today... Spices in foreign languages!