Easy Cooking for Sailing and Cruising

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Galley Recipe of the Week
Low Country Seafood Soup

 

1 tablespoon olive oil
2 tablespoons minced garlic
Medium onion, diced
2 cups bottled clam broth OR

2 cups water + 1 fish flavor bouillon cube

½ cup instant rice
32-ounce carton of chicken broth
Small bag of baby spinach, cut in ribbons
16-ounce tub of oysters or crabmeat
15-ounce can of black-eye peas, rinsed and drained

    In a roomy saucepan, sizzle garlic and onion in hot oil until onion is translucent. Add  broth. Bring to a boil and stir in rice. Cover and cook over reduced heat 10 minutes. Cut up oysters and lump crab if  large,.  Stir in spinach, seafood and black-eye peas. Cover and simmer 10 to 15 minutes.  Salt may not be needed but pass the pepper mill and hot sauce. 

 

 

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    * It’s easy to make yogurt by inoculating warm milk with a bit of the existing yogurt culture. However this is trickier on a boat underway because yogurt doesn’t like to be disturbed while it’s “yogging”. The same is true for Junket. Wait for calm waters.

    * Rule of thumb. One part water to one cup instant rice. Two cups water to one cup raw rice. To make milk, use 1/3 cup powdered milk to one cup of water. To make “evaporated” milk, 2/3 cup powdered milk to a cup of water. Allow 2-3 hours to combine thoroughly. 

 

Pantry Recipe of the Week
Fake Grapes
    When you’re passagemaking and the fresh fruit is gone, this fruity  dessert is a good substitute. It takes on the color of the canned fruit you add.

1/3 cup large pearl tapioca
2 tablespoons sugar (optional)
2 cups water (include juice from canned  fruit)
1/4 cup dried cranberries
14.5-ounce can white grapes or gooseberries, drained
Small can pineapple tidbits, drained
Tinned cream (optional)
    Drain fruit and add water to make two cups. Stir liquid, sugar and tapioca in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer over low heat about 30 minutes or until tapioca is plump and translucent. Fold in fruit and serve warm or cold,  as is or with cream,  as a fruit salad or dessert. Serves 6. 

 

Skillet Recipe of the Week
Skillet Garlic Cheese Bread
    This from-scratch garlic bread is a homemade quick bread with all the flavor of garlic in a recipe you can throw together any time, no matter how far you are from shore.

2 eggs
1 cup milk or water
3 cups biscuit mix
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 cup grated Parmesan  or other dry cheese

    Thoroughly grease a heavy, deep, 10-inch skillet or Dutch oven, preferably cast aluminum. Whisk eggs and milk or water. Stir in biscuit mix and garlic powder until evenly moist. Do not over-beat. Fold in grated cheese.

    Put dough in the pan, cover tightly and cook over medium heat until it’s firm, springy to the touch and golden brown on edges and bottom. The top will not brown.Some cooks flip the loaf and brown it on the bottom but I just turn it out on a cutting board, white side down.
  Serve warm with butter. 

 

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