Pirate’s Peach Cobbler

It’s peach season in Chesapeake Bay territory. Fresh peaches on roadside stands and farmer’s markets everywhere. Friends of ours were passing through Pennsylvania and picked some up on the way. Perfect excuse for a Galley Pirates treat, I’d say. Off for a Sunday afternoon sail…

Chattanooga Chocolate Chili and World’s Fair Nachos

Yep, this post comes with a bonus recipe!  And one so good that I’m going with a picture of happy Captain Peter mid-consumption rather than a glossy food photo.  This is our favorite chili recipe, courtesy of our friend John Bennett in Chattanooga Tennessee, who heartily agrees with us that any recipe beginning and ending…

Blackened Red Snapper Tacos

When someone offers you fresh caught Florida Red Snapper, you NEVER turn it down. A friend of mine’s daughter, Katie, and her fiancée caught “more than they could eat” 3 miles from the Destin Pass on the Florida panhandle. The snappers ranged from 6-10 pounds, the largest being 12 lbs! They were in about 70…

Mediterranean Stuffed Peppers

Stuffed peppers are one of my favorite fallback recipes because they’re not even really a recipe…they are “assembly instructions.”  Your ingredients are bell peppers, ground meat, prepared grain, aromatics and seasonings, and cheese…within each of those categories, you have an enormous range of choices, making this one of those “Lord have mercy what do I…

Super Easy Beer Bread

So I was troubled as I sat down to type up this post…this bread is so BLAH looking, the ingredients are beige, you add beige beer, the batter is beige, it bakes up into a couple beige loaves that you slice and smear with something blandly colored like cream cheese, butter, molasses…beige.  Then I realized…you…