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Topic: Sandpiper Cruising Recipes
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Ken
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posted November 14, 2005 04:51 PM
   
Thought I'd start off this topic with it's own title.Our #1 boating snack was (is) cans of smoked mussels on wheat thins with hot seafood sauce. Using Brodie's self-rising flour I made pan bread in the cast iron pan. It was usually pretty blackened but was light & fluffy inside and especially good slathered in butter and jam! We usually had tht with breakfast but it also makes a nice hot lunch, especially on one of those lazy fog-bound or drizzly days in a remote North Channel anchorage.
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elmet3
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posted November 14, 2005 08:28 PM
That sounds good already. I hadn't thought of trying to bake any kind of bread or biscuit. My mind was stuck on canned soup. When I have gone out for a couple days I tend to bring peanut butter, crackers, nuts, hunter sausage and other portable food; all stuff I don't eat at home. No wonder I don't eat much out there. Gotta work on getting real meals put together. Soup fits that bill pretty well but having some biscuits with it would be really great. Thats kind of why I am going for a two burner stove; so I can do more than heat soup. In Francis Chichesters's book 'Gypsy Moth Circles the World' he lists all his provisions in an appendix. Lots of dried fruit, fresh fruit, 16 dozen raw eggs, canned salmon, tuna, sardines, herring, shrimp, several types of self rising flour, herbs, jelly and jams. Very few prepared soups but lots of fresh potatoes, peas, onions and lentils and such. He planned to cook, not open a tin and eat out of it. Things are a bit different on a Sandpiper, of course! IP: 68.73.54.119 |
Ken
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posted November 17, 2005 02:46 PM
Eggz!
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elmet3
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posted November 17, 2005 06:18 PM
That was an interesting article! Imagine fresh eggs for 6 months. I'll have to think about that before betting my boating trip on it though. Maybe I'll try it at home and determine how long they last. I work with a fellow that races the Port Huron-Macinaw every year. He makes lots of beef jerky and eats it on the boat. Actually he sells it and lots of boats buy it. Beef jerky is another good, long term storage food. And no preparation required. I read a book called 'The last place on earth' about the race to the South Pole. It had extensive description of the nutritional preparation of Amundson and Scott. Unfortunately, it seemed pretty bland, even if nutritious. Lots of pemican. IP: 67.107.33.106 |
Shortstay
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posted November 18, 2005 08:09 AM
I read a book on that effort too entitled The Worst Journey In The World by Cherry-Garrard. Typical dry, understated English-Explorer prose but an amazing story nonetheless. I read it after I read Shackleton's South, an even more amazing journey & arguably even worse. The account of the sail back to South Georgia Island from Elephant Island is really beyond imagination. I also read Worsley's account of that expedition in his book Endurance.I'm actually in the middle of reading The Mystery of Mallory & Irving. I was on an armchair mountaineer reading jag for several years after first reading Into Thin Air, but since coming back to sailing have been reading books & magazines on sailing & sailing adventures rather extensively. [This message has been edited by Shortstay (edited November 18, 2005).] IP: 198.115.167.45 | |
