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The GBYC Paella Cook-Off
My, what tangled webs we weave! I am not really one for serious competitions. Rather too laid back, I think. Or probably too lazy. The real reason for a wannabe sea gypsy? Most decidedly. My doctor...
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Cold Weather Bean Stew
It has been a while since my last affray into the kitchen. I have been working on boats since. I don’t own a boat. I am perhaps now learning more, by working and sailing on other people’s boats,...
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Fast Boat Food: Kebab Cheat
This is one of those ideas that comes to mind when sailing out there and you start feeling hungry. Once you have consumed your two or three sarmies (South African for sandwiches), you tend to start...
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Traditional Dinner
We had yet another cloudy day today. Although the wind has died down to a mere puff every now and then, the sky is still mostly overcast. We are motoring along on a smooth sea. And in the very...
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A Colonial Feast On A Colonial Island
I have been pondering the title of this post at length. Other options were An Elegy On A lost Age or even A Lament For Lost Culture. Both perhaps a bit on the heavy emotional side, so I opted for the...
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Day 16: Chilli Con Carne And Cumin Chapattis
I have forgotten what the stars look like. The skipper tells me to relax, there is lot of time left on this voyage to see stars. But I am beginning to have my doubts. To sum up the situation, we are...
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Day 24: Cloudless Skies And Hot Sechuan Pork
Actually the day started with squalls and showers. I was on watch from 00h00 to 03h00, spending one and a half hours at the helm fielding squalls. Not that I complain. No, the drizzle was quite...
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Day 28: Mince Curry And Tropical Clouds
Today saw the first of the tropical sunsets typical of the area that we are traversing. We are about eighty nautical miles from land. In the real humid tropics. We are now seeing tropical thunder...
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Day 36: Boerewors And Mash In The Rain
…… Needless to say, there is no chance of a sun shot today, as the sun is hidden behind the clouds. This makes for some interesting navigation practice for me, as there are now several factors to keep...
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Day 40: Land Ho And Onion Cashew Risotto
… My plot put us twelve miles closer to the island than the GPS, which translates to an hour or two additional sailing. At night the difference would be negligible, as the lights on the island and the...
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Winter Weather Food: Traditional Groenboontjie Bredie
Perhaps better described as green bean stew for my friends overseas. But something is lost in the translation, methinks. The Afrikaans language just has that extra ring to it. Most of us grew up with...
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Boeuf Bourgoignon a la Mode
It has been a while since my last venture into cooking for fun. The recent adventure of sailing a boat from the Seychelles to Gordon’s Bay left me with hardly any energy to experiment. Besides, I had...
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Pagan Style Lamb Chops
I like lamb chops on the braai. But forever the meat is overdone by the time the layer of fat on the outside is done properly. Then the chops are definitely not OK. Cooking them until the meat is to...
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French-Moroccan Style Food Aboard
The last week saw me yet again playing the sailing instructor to a boat load of young people. Young, healthy people with appetites to match. Put in some physical sailing exercises, anchoring off...
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A New Life, A New Beef Stew
I recently seemed to have lost my zeal for cooking. Perhaps I lost my muse, as authors and artists would have it. Or perhaps the two major surgical procedures and the large amounts of anaesthetic in my...
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Flavours of Africa: Oxtail And Samp
Winter arrived properly here in the Cape yesterday, along with the associated rain and cold. Today we have had some thunder and lightning already, with heavy clouds over the Helderberg. Time for a real...
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Poor Man’s Roast
Having a small family is sometimes a hindrance to a food blogger. With just the missus and myself, things get tricky when thinking up new ways to prepare food, given the small quantity required. The...
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On Being A Food Snob
Often-times, one hears about a person being a food snob. Specifically food bloggers. I never cared much for such talk, being rather laid back about criticizing other people’s efforts. Everyone has a...
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