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Winter People Gone, Time to Plant and Bake.
Some good cruising friends recently commented we had been very quiet. True. But there is a difference between quiet and busy. Basically, we decided to take a year + or – to settle in here before...
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Yum-ami — Onion Bread
Umami can be translated as “pleasant savory taste” When I started baking some years ago, I experimented quite a bit with augmented breads, adding things like olive tapenade, cheese, bacon bits, pesto,...
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Spice Blends
Ever notice how spice blends are minimalist in their description of ingredients? We love it when we read “paprika, cayenne, onion powder and spices!” We know so much more now. Recently we ran out of a...
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Batta, Batta — Bing! (Bread)
Modifications to the bread recipe. With these adds, a mix of bread and all purpose flour seems to work better as does a slightly higher water temperature >> The bread recipe. 1.5 cups bread...
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Left Over Baked Beans Head East
The other night we had lamb vindaloo. Janet made sabsi (Afghan garlic spinach), and I took some left over baked beans and. . . 1.75 cups beans (1 can) + 1 medium yellow onion, diced 1/2 clove garlic,...
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Tastebud Wake-up Call
Some of the meats out there have nice texture but not much taste. Some of that is because of the meat and some is because the taste buds are not prepared to handle it. Usually the taste buds are warmed...
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Jah-makamelazi
More spice experiments. 2 Silk Road Spice 2 Curry powder 3/4 Allspice powder 1/8-3/8 Chili Red Powder Olive oil Soy sauce Non-beef protein. (Poultry. Fish. Lamb. Pork. Tofu) Units above depend on how...
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Waiting for Erika — with Peanuts
Spent 4.5 hours yesterday getting the boat ready for the various forms Erika might take when if it gets here. Watching the forecast on TV we ran out of the Chesapeake Crab Snack Peanuts brought by...
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Red Sausage in the Sunset
Lately we have purchased some expensive sausage that had an unpleasant texture (twice) and underwhelming spicing (several times). So, we decided to make some bulk from scratch. The first test batch (1...
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Bean Zapped
The Red Sausage needed something to go with it. Later, the flounder Janet cooked in salsa, en papillote, did too. We have been cooking the pantry down to late Hurricane Season levels, so a sauce for...
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What, No Cod ?!?! — Faux Bacalaitos
Yesterday, I decided to try a Cuban recipe for Bacalaitos (salt cod fritters). Well, it turned out we had used our cod and not replenished it. So I decided to use smoked trout instead. Turned out we...
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Quid Agatur??? (“Whazzup,” circa 500 BCE)
At a recent social event, someone asked why we even bothered to have a boat given Florida weather, poor water quality, and shallow depths, etc. Well… Weather. On the Chesapeake we winterized from...
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What’s Cooking?
A good friend commented this blog was morphing from a cruising blog to a food blog. Not really, we are just mentally anchored in a food lagoon right now, thanks to hurricane season. We have posted 848...
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Mole Poblano con Cerdo
Recently I made about 7 quarts of chili for a charity event (along with 12 other cooks of various concocti). Fortunately, Janet and I snuck a couple of dinners worth out of the pot before attending the...
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Back to the Future, Harbor Branch, Dolphins & Me
I was just accepted as a volunteer working on the Dolphin Photo ID Program at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. Yippee! Since attending David Starr Jordan Junior High School in Palo Alto which...
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Jah-makamelazi
More spice experiments. 2 Silk Road Spice 2 Curry powder 3/4 Allspice powder 1/8-3/8 Chili Red Powder Olive oil Soy sauce Non-beef protein. (Poultry. Fish. Lamb. Pork. Tofu) Units above depend on how...
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Waiting for Erika — with Peanuts
Spent 4.5 hours yesterday getting the boat ready for the various forms Erika might take when if it gets here. Watching the forecast on TV we ran out of the Chesapeake Crab Snack Peanuts brought by...
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