A Simple, Restorative Stew to Cook on Board after a Daysail or Late Night: Bring chicken broth to a low boil. Add egg noodles and cook until tender. Toss in a handful of fresh peas, chives, parsley or other seasonal green from the garden. Serve while piping hot in small bowls with ground pepper, tabasco […]
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Country Commune Cooking
I love this timeless culinary classic from 1972. I love to cook and always have my antennae up for folksy recipes and offbeat eateries. I was rewarded on both fronts recently when I stumbled upon Lucy Horton’s classic spiral-bound ‘Country Commune Cooking’ in the free-bin at Hardcore Espresso, my favorite spot for coffee and one […]
Pieds-a-Mer
Ene’s hat and scarf complement ‘Suddenly’s late 1970’s vintage. Ene and I spent our first afternoon together aboard ‘Suddenly’, which Ene has been calling our ‘pied-a-mer’. It was a blustery day after a long overdue rainfall, so Ene sat in the cabin reading while I replaced the dock lines and installed a portable head. We […]
Reviving the Garden (+ a recipe)
Ene builds towers for her peas to climb. With help from friends we’ve been reviving our vegetable garden over the past few weeks. It’s been about 5 years since we built the raised beds, and with the demands of projects and travel over the past couple of years, the garden has been sorely neglected. The […]
Picnic at Willow Creek
Simple ingredients that pack easily and combine well make for an ideal picnic. As much as I love to cook, some of my favorite meals are simple assemblages, preferably packed as a picnic for a day of hiking or paddling. Nothing tastes better than a few simple ingredients carefully chosen to complement the season and […]
Pear Harvest
Stored in a cool place, these freshly picked pears will ripen in a few days. “There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson We’ve been harvesting our pears in phases over the past week; the fruit seems to ripen unevenly on our […]
Kelp and Iodine
Freshly harvested kelp drying on the garden fence For a while after the recent tsunami in Japan, Californians were aflutter about iodine, the primary antidote to radiation exposure. In researching sources of the element I discovered that the Japanese consume about five times more than most of the rest of the world, largely because seaweed […]