We will all be having a different Christmas this year with varying levels of restrictions due to COVID. Your Christmas dinner menu may be the same, or you may be trying something different this year. Cooking for two on the boat isn’t hard, but I’m thinking about trying something different this year, a Christmas dinner…
Category: Galley Cooking
Wild Edibles – Boat Foraging
Fresh produce is always a challenge on the boat. What many of us boaters forget about are wild edibles that we hike past everyday! People have been foraging wild edibles for ages, it’s just something that has been forgotten as we’ve become accustom to provisioning at grocery stores. Growing up camping and hiking you learn…
Great Food Tips for How to Self Isolate on a Boat
I love sharing the boat food tips I’ve learned over the years. While it’s always fun to go ashore and reprovision while you’re out and about during a boat trip, I’ve always take the challenge of how long can we go without having to go to the store! I love the option of buying food,…
Essential Tips for Cooking On a Sailboat
When I first started sailing on a San Juan 28 I had a very small galley with very little storage. I had grown up car camping, so while I knew the basics of keep it simple, I hadn’t appreciated the challenges with a smaller space on a sailboat. I had zero knowledge of any tips…
Basic Ocean Wise Cruising
We are reminded every day to be ocean wise about plastic. Between photos of the ocean covered in plastic, sea turtles wrapped in fishing nets and plastic, fish getting stuck in plastic bags and dying to the recent news about a whale found dead with 40kg of plastic in its stomach, we are reminded that…
Basic Prawning 101 Made Easy
Buttered prawns, prawn curry, prawn pasta, pickled prawns in a caesar….the list really goes on. Prawns are super tasty and a relatively easy thing to catch, no digging, no wadding in the water, just a little arm muscle coupled with a trap. Prawning 101 in BC waters is as simple as a few steps: 1….
Delicious Prawny Goodness
Mmmm, prawny goodness. Prawns can be one of the most easiest things to catch while on the boat. Prawning is like anything though, you need to know where to go, and when, and when the stars align you can feast on prawns! Between the gulf islands and the Broughton’s, there’s opportunities to catch prawns. I…
Coffee Snob A Float
I love my morning coffee. Whether it’s enjoying a cup with my breakfast, or savouring a quiet moment in the morning before the world gets up cuddled with a coffee. Coffee on the boat does not mean one needs to sacrifice, there are many great options depending on your preference. Over the years I’ve experimented…
Happy Hour Roasted Chili Lime Chickpeas
Happy hour is a boater staple. It doesn’t matter where you’re boating, what kind of boat you have, happy hour is happy hour. There are no real rules for happy hour, it merely involves the drink of your choice and something paired to snack on. It’s the relaxing part at the end of your day…
Perfect Spicy Crab Stuffed Avocado
I have to admit that while I enjoy crab, I’m not one of those people where dinner can consist of a whole crab on my plate paired with a bowl of melted butter. I enjoy crab meat in things, but not a dinner of crab with a side of butter. As a boater I sometimes…