Chateaubriand. A quintessential, elegant holiday meal. One you wouldn’t necessarily think to make on a sailboat. Tonight was a special night though…the Eastport Yacht Club Parade of Lights. Our chef-guests Alyson and Jamie were bringing Focaccia Farcita, Brie and Cranberry Jalapeño Spread en Croute and Cranberry Wensleydale en croute…topped with a pastry mermaid and a galley pirate sword!…
True confessions. We dug this recipe out of the Galley Pirates drafts from January 2015! It’s not that this is a bad meal or anything, and it’s fairly boat friendly as well. It has just never made it to the top of the queue. Lost and forgotten, Piñon Pine Crusted Pork Medallions is finally being…
Feliz Cinco de Mayo from your Galley Pirates!! Get ready for tomorrow. This holiday only falls on a Saturday once in a while (six years to be exact I think, if I did the math right) so make the best of it! Start early and party like it’s the weekend. Because it is!
Feliz Navidad? I admit, I’ve had a poblano binge underway. But I think the driving force behind my craving this week for Chiles en Nogada — a Mexican ceremonial dish created to mirror the colors of the Mexican flag — was the fact that (1) I categorically ban any Christmas decorating before Thanksgiving, but (2)…
This weekend Upward Wing had a nautical stay-cation. Let’s just posit that Swan did not craft its bluewater 40-footer with a 7’8″ keel with Lake Pontchartrain in mind. New Orleans’ lake is enormous in area, but about 12′ maximum depth across the whole thing. It’s a gigantic saucer, and piles up quickly. It doesn’t take…
Happy Easter Sunday, fellow-scallywags! Religious predilections aside, I feel that Easter — like Thanksgiving — has a message we can all embrace. Redemption, renewal, new energy, new life…it’s hard not to like the message, no? And if you’re a sailor in higher latitudes, you get your boat back. This year, in the New Orleans area, we had beautiful 80-degree sunny skies with 18…
The photo shown in this email alert is not food, you notice. You get enough food shots from us every Friday, so we thought we’d change things up a bit. Yes, this is BVI, where a magical sauce was prepared. Not bad. I’ll take it. It’s been off-season for this Chesapeake Bay pirate, and who knows what that Louisiana…
We’re at the St. Thomas food market, USVI, and lo ‘n behold there is a SPECIAL on goat meat! Well this pirate is certainly not going to pass up a deal like this… $3.99 marked down from $5.99/lb.! The thought of it sent me back to Kenya in the late 70’s, the first time I had goat. It…
Oktoberfest is in the air and it’s got to be my favorite time of year! Maybe it’s because I delivered an Oktoberfest baby 24 years ago while living on our Panda 38. Or maybe it’s because the winds pick up, the heat dissipates and you can get in some great Bay sailing. Or just maybe it’s the beer.…
We have pressure cooker madness onboard our sailing vessel today. Nothing illegal or sinister about this pressure cooker, but I have to admit these Tamales Wrapped in Banana Leaves are so good they should be outlawed! Pressure cooking is a go-to method onboard a sailboat, using less time and energy than conventional cooking. Plus you can lock down the…