This Spanish Omelette is a go-to meal onboard for breakfast, lunch or a tapas dinner. It uses only four ingredients—eggs, onions, potatoes, and olive oil—all of which can easily be stowed on a boat for weeks. And if you only have access to a burner, not an oven, this is a great substitute for a…
Eggs baked in avocados are so easy, so nutritious and so delicious! Best to make these in a smooth anchorage or marina. They are hard to manage in a rock-n-rolling sea. Be sure to use eggs no larger than medium size or you’ll have eggs whites sliming out all over the avocado. You can top…
Not going to lie, these would be THE BOMB as far as night watch food goes, and so I had intended them. Then night watch started early and never ended. We were planning to make a leisurely passage from Lake Pontchartrain to Dauphin Island off Mobile Bay, anchoring briefly before sundown at an interim barrier…
You know that exciting feeling when you move your boat to a new marina, right? Even though it’s the same old boat, the new location feels like you’re in a brand new home. There are new sounds, new waves and movement, and the sun casts its light in different beams through the portholes. We are…
I alluded ever so vaguely to it two weeks ago … Caroline brushed up closer last week with making bread, because there is none to buy. But this week we have to acknowledge full-on: things are a MESS for those not already sequestered in a floating home where non-cohabitants have at least an anchor line-and-chain’s…
There was a time when your faithful Pirate had not heard of these wonderful one-handed breakfast treats. I KNOW…Captain Peter was equally incredulous when I asked “what are these kolaches?” that I was reading about. “YOU’VE NEVER HAD TEXAS BREAKFAST HOT DOGS?!?” was his response. We met and married late, so we occasionally discover these…