What do you do instead?

I've always wondered about you anyway but salsa dancing .. how does this work .. do you just get a tablespoonful of the stuff and shove it where the sun don't shine and then hop around in serious pain until it sort of wears off? Presume you start with the mild stuff before you move onto the hot & spicy?

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Re: Salsa

It helps if you have a parque deck to salsa on.... from experience.......

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Do you really get as much enjoyment from housework as you do from boating- I don't dislike housework, but given the choice!

<hr width=100% size=1>Life's too short- do it now./forums/images/icons/wink.gif
 
Cooking is easy

...if you do it before you leave. For a weekend away, or the first night of a long trip, we traditionally do lemon chicken.

You don't ned a recipe, just cook as many chicken breasts as you need in a gravy/sauce of white wine and a stock cube flavoured with lemon juice and zest, plus things like onions, garlic, celery, bay leaves and carrots. Plus whatever else you have left in the fridge. Store in an old ice cream carton, then tip into a pan and reheat within 36 hours. Serve with one (or two) of those "rice with ..." thingys from the supermarket and you will have the downwind boats drooling. Serve with some homemade blackberry wine and follow it up a prepackaged chocolate mouse and port, then bacon butties for breakfast. I can't think of a better way to start a holiday, or to encourage a reluctant crew to love sailing. Roll on next summer.

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Re: Cooking is easy

I agree- Home made frozen meals are great for weekends away. It also helps keep the fridge power consumption down in our equatorial climate.

<hr width=100% size=1>Life's too short- do it now./forums/images/icons/wink.gif
 
Re: Cooking is easy

Home made chilli con carne is great for the night watch. Tastes better reheated anyway - and just use boil in the bag rice (brown IMHO). Perfect.
Homemade banana, chocolate and hazelnut cake is also a popular breakfast with a nice cup of tea (Assam of course)

<hr width=100% size=1>Its 11.59am - lets open the beers...
 
Re: Cooking is easy

Fried Potato scones,sausages,bacon,egg,mushrooms,tomatos,beans,fried haggis. Yum Yum!

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Re: Cooking is easy

Just the sort of food for a growing boy- haggis as part of a fry up sounds great.

I think I'm going to make the effort to play my guitar more when I can't get out sailing. I don't have quite the same amount of time to indulge in it as I did when I was student, but rainy weekends seem perfect.

<hr width=100% size=1>Life's too short- do it now./forums/images/icons/wink.gif
 
Re: Cooking is easy

I've not tried boil-in-the-bag rice, the "delicately flavoured" packet variety is quite good, although a bit much for two. We often end up feeding the fishes. After this year's chilli harvest from the greenhouse I might have to be a bit more inventive with the frozen meals, chilli con carne and variants are always a good idea.

Speaking of chillis, if we manage to get to Indigo's Launch Party in Yarmouth (or wherever) next spring, I'll try and save a jar of my special pickled onions to sort out the men from the boys.

Sunday morning breakfast for SWMBO has to contain a significant proportion of chocolate, so I might have to try your cake next year! Is it a banana cake plus extras? It's got to be more robust and long-lasting than "choc-croissants", though the supermarket choc-chip brioches last weekend went down well and didn't squash too badly.


<hr width=100% size=1>
 
If doing work in the home is not required (e.g. this weekend we're clearing a bedroom for a new carpet arriving on Wednesday) then I get out the oil paints. Just an hour or two of daubing is relaxing in the extreme.

<hr width=100% size=1>
 
Re: Cooking is easy

Just about the most unpleasant culinary adventure of mine was a deep fried haggis in batter from a chippie at Garelochhead. Ooooh - I can still taste that grease-ball ! Shame, 'cause I like haggis and have even been known to eat the veggie version when I had a North British/rabbit cross SWMBO.

<hr width=100% size=1>Khyber
 
Re: Cooking is easy

Guylian chocolates are particularly nice for breakfast, especially with good coffee.

This post seems to be branching out into gastronomic delights- the common denominator in everyone's hearts ( along with sailing of course)

<hr width=100% size=1>Life's too short- do it now./forums/images/icons/wink.gif
 
Re: If really no boat things to do ...

Are you really bored??

<hr width=100% size=1>Life's too short- do it now./forums/images/icons/wink.gif
 
Re: Boredom ??

So the honeymoon period has finished then. /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

<hr width=100% size=1>
ladybug_zigzag_md_wht.gif
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page

Top