Big Boy's breakfast at sea

[BlueSkyNick]

Re: Big Boy\'s breakfast at sea

Sadly your suggestion is not practical Stuge. The food would take longer to cook than the crossing.

You see, the new engine is so cooool - just like me, really !

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[Clive_Rigden]

Re: Big Boy\'s breakfast at sea

Can you use the grill independently of the oven? If not, which is often the case proceed along the lines of M. l'Escargot.
Toast first.
All meat, mushrooms (fresh toms if available) in oven on medium.
Tinned stuff (toms, beans &c.) in pan on hob with - can put plares warming over with toast if calm.
Kettle on, make tea in tea pot - enough for two cups each.
when oven stuff cooked reduce heat and put plates in bottom of oven with toast to warm.
Now difficult bit - if bacon and mushrooms not too watery one can do the eggs in the oven pan under the grill, having dished rest onto plates.
If not seperate frying pan (extra washing up and thing to spill over boat in swell) and ask if anyone wants fried bead - yummie!
Everything should now be done and ready for table or cockpit.
Key to success - use oven - essential bit of cruising ket, especially in a blow.
Oh yes - and don't forget the Worcestershire sauce - even if Messrs. Lea & Perrins is now owned by the French . . .
Then it's grace and tuck in !


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[duncan]

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I am with the french snail on the prep - re the melamine plates place in the sink and fill with boiling water between the tea production cycle. Remove plates to order and as the last one comes out add the washing up liquid before reversing the plate removal..............

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[jimi]

Re: Big Boy\'s breakfast at sea

6 oysters, 2 raw eggs, tobasco sauce & can of cold guinness

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[Gordonmc]

Re: Big Boy\'s breakfast at sea

Loch Fyne kippers bought from the quine at the head of the pontoon in Tarbert. In the half-on oven along with part-baked rolls and head into the loch. Get sails set, off with the donk and lay into golden steaming kippers.
Mop up the juice with the bread, washed down with Piper's Gold.
Gets the appetite going for a langoustine lunch at Otter Ferry.

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[StugeronSteve]

Re: Mr. Coooool

Shutting the cooling water sea cock for twenty minutes, or so, should make sure that the meat is cooked and, by a serendipitious coincidence, the manifold will be just right for the eggs as well.

You must make sure that everything is cooked before the oil starts blowing back out of the filler pipe though, coz the smell might taint the food.

Stuge.

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[tcm]

Re: key missing ingredient

oh dear, melamine plates are for tightfisted charter boats, not for a boat with someone of your own esteemeds culinary skill. I mean, the boat's plastic so it mite not bnreak, and if a plate drops the main prob is the food all over. And what's the prob with an occ. broken plate on a boat where people always wear shoes, if the tradeoff is the er "luxury" of axshul real plates?

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[dralex]

Re: Big Boy\'s breakfast at sea

MMM- I'm starving. You've conjured a lovely picture there, but what about the obligatory Scottish rain?

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[TheBoatman]

Re: Big Boy\'s breakfast at sea

Becky
I'm appalled - no frying pan on board - can't be a "real" boat <s>.

My bother-in-law (farmer) feeds muesli to his cattle to fatten them up so I don't eat the stuff, besides it "gives me gas" and on a boat for some reason, always tends to upset female crew members, but has exactly the opposite effect on male crew members.

Should any budding YM O/S candidates out there need to demonstrate to the instructor how quickly a liferaft/flares and crew can be assembled for evacuation then I have a mate that given a couple of bowls of muesli, fried brown bread and baked beans can seriously speed up the process.

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[Clive_Rigden]

Re: Big Boy\'s breakfast at sea

Now you're talking Alex.
Even better, undyed smoked haddock with a couple of soft poached eggs, preceded, if available, by a large bowl of green figs in syrup - a moving experience . . .

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[Joe]

Re: Big Boy\'s breakfast at sea

I for one am happy to do the fry-up, But i will not eat any rabbit food.
Just does not seem right somehow.

Joe

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[jimi]

Re: Big Boy\'s breakfast at sea

Better aff with ripped fox sausages, devilled squirrel kidneys, baited badger bacon, jugged hare & chicken liver.

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[StugeronSteve]

Re: Big Boy\'s breakfast at sea

You've forgotten the hedgehog baked in mud.

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[TheBoatman]

Re: Big Boy\'s breakfast at sea

I was in Ramsgate once during the "old gaffers" meet and watched in awe at the 2 guys preparing breakfast next to me. It went something like this.

1. Take one single burner spirit stove and add one huge copper kettle (min 6 pints) and boil.
2. Add 18-heaped spoonfuls of loose tea, the same of sugar and half a can of “Fussells” condensed milk.
3. Bring back to the boil and wait 3 minutes.
4. Remove from stove and pour directly into large enamel mugs.
5. Next get large copper pot (min 2 gallons).
6. Add knob of butter.
7. Add 1 chopped medium onion and fry.
8. Add 6 slices of best back bacon (smoked) and 6 sausages. Fry.
9. Then add 1 tin each of beans, whole toms.
10. Add mushrooms (halved).
11. After 5 minutes for the time being temporarily remove cooking pot and put back teapot to reheat remaining contents.
12. Serve more tea and put back cooking pot.
13. Add 4 eggs directly into the mixture.
14. Whilst waiting for the contents to cook take 1 small uncut,split-tin loaf and cut into 1” thick pieces and butter (note butter, none of this “it tastes like butter” stuff.
15. Finally, empty contents into old-fashioned style enamel stew/soup bowls and consume.

These 2 old codgers had the best smelling breakfast I think I have ever witnessed, all done on 1 burner and I think they were more than set up to haul on the myriad of lines associated with such boats.


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[Clive_Rigden]

Re: Big Boy\'s breakfast at sea

Bloody goog Jimi - and for luncheon, tea, dinner & supper too!
P.S. mix champagne with the cold Guiness . . .

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[Nickel]

Heuvos Mexicanas

For four:

An Onion, two cloves of garlic, half a chopped chilli [a red hot sweet flavoured one - Scotch Bonnet or Habanero], fried in hot olive oil. Bung in eight eggs, and coursely scramble - half way through chuck in three or four tomaotes chopped.

At the same time - on the other ring - refried beans - mashed precooked pinto beans.

Serve with nice crusty brown bread. Orange juice and nice strong black coffee.

Fantastic!

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[Ohdrat]

Re: Heuvos Mexicanas

you forgot the cilantro and the cocoa powder in the frioles

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[Nickel]

Re: Heuvos Mexicanas

Yep, I'd go with the cilantro if I could find any - but the cocoa powder [gag!] - we'd have to have a separate pan for your frioles!

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Being paranoid simply means - having all the facts.