The seasons are changing. There’s that unmistakable sound in the air—thhaaaaa zoop— shrink wrap being heated onto live-aboard boats. The winter water hoses are being deployed, and flip flops are swapped out for Blundstones and Uggs….all in preparation for the winter freeze. And it makes this Galley Pirate prep for her favorite holiday, Thanksgiving. We…
I was asked to create a galley-prepared feast for Chesapeake Bay Magazine’s Holiday Issue, featuring cooking onboard. My go-to entree for galley ovens are Cornish hens. I’ve cooked whole roasted chickens, turkeys, even a duck in my little Force 10 oven. But not knowing what oven our readers use I try to play it safe,…
They say before you marry you need to find out how your new family spends Thanksgiving morning. Are they a “Bloody Marys” or a “5K Turkey Trot” kind of family? I like that sound advice. Well, back in the 60s in Iowa neither one was a thing. Our mother spent Thanksgiving morning feverishly preparing the…
It’s that pumpkin and squash time of year; autumn vegetables roasting in your gimbaled stove on a chilly fall day. There is a myriad of sauces, glazes and vinaigrettes you can add to your oven roasted vegetables. Segue to Kentucky: having recently traveled through Louisville I still have Angel’s Envy on my mind. So let’s…
Happy day after Thanksgiving! Or Black Friday as many call it. We will still be on our boat celebrating a pirate’s favorite holiday as this publishes so no shopping for us. I just wanted to share with you the soup we served at our Thanksgiving feast. Don’t think for a moment this can’t be made…
Having drinks in the cockpit with friends we thought we knew, a “past life secret” slips out. Nancy and her mother had a pierogi business, Pirogi Priest, in her earlier days in Connecticut. They made each pierogi by hand to benefit a children’s charity started by a local Catholic priest, then sold their pierogis nationally.…