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What calibre are these cobs you speak of ?
Whatever they are, I'd hope to regard them as ammunition rather than food !
Which is the best snack when sailing?
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What calibre are these cobs you speak of ?
Whatever they are, I'd hope to regard them as ammunition rather than food !
fracman
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Chopped up Melton Mowbray pork pie in a bowl of piping hot Heinz Tomato Soup
prv
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Frogmogman
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I'm slightly surprised that the only vote for curry has been grumpybear's spam ruby. Can't beat it IMHO, and with bad weather in the offing it can be warmed through and kept in a wide necked vacuum flask. Robin Knox Johnston famously keeps a curry on the go for weeks on end, adding extra ingredients from time to time when the level in the stockpot seems to be getting low ('tho a less high risk approach on the food poisoning front is possible too).
For something to nibble during a night watch, for me nothing has ever come close to my late and greatly missed aunt Bridget's home made oatie biscuits.
For something to nibble during a night watch, for me nothing has ever come close to my late and greatly missed aunt Bridget's home made oatie biscuits.
prv
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I think it's because the question was originally about snacks rather than meals, though we have drifted it a bit.
Pete
Perry
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If you fancy a bit of spice try a Bombay Badboy pot noodle, pretty tasty ang makes a change from cup a soup.
Plomong
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Forgot to mention -- the best packet soups in Spain are SopInstant, IMHO.
Seajet
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I take a tin of Tesco hot chicken curry, throw in a tin of new potatos and heat the lot, a one saucpan job.
Serves 2.
Works a treat on a cold crew, if in any doubt add a very small dose of Tesco Encona chilli sauce, a tablespoonful might be a bit much, the stuff is atomic but does give any kick required !
I take a tin of Tesco hot chicken curry, throw in a tin of new potatos and heat the lot, a one saucpan job.
Serves 2.
Works a treat on a cold crew, if in any doubt add a very small dose of Tesco Encona chilli sauce, a tablespoonful might be a bit much, the stuff is atomic but does give any kick required !
Nostrodamus
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So that's it then... in a nutshell we will eat almost anything we can find as long as we can hold it in one hand.
As sailors we need to improve our image.
We need to dedicate one day next year to a cooking at sea day.
All food must be fresh and prepared on the boat at sea and it should be eaten at a table with the crew suitably attired. A photo should be taken as proof.
Does not matter what the weather but we should cook the best meal possible at sea.
As sailors we need to improve our image.
We need to dedicate one day next year to a cooking at sea day.
All food must be fresh and prepared on the boat at sea and it should be eaten at a table with the crew suitably attired. A photo should be taken as proof.
Does not matter what the weather but we should cook the best meal possible at sea.
Daydream believer
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I find digestive biscuits ok
Soak up the sick really well
Drink plenty of water with them
Soak up the sick really well
Drink plenty of water with them
slipknot
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Tesco finest lasagne. Individual portions in the metal trays. Pop them in the oven and eat when the smell becomes irrisistable. mmmmmmm
If extra peckish, pop in a little garlic bread too.
If extra peckish, pop in a little garlic bread too.
Greenheart
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What a great idea!
Not sure about the question of attire, though...don't we all already wear dinner-jackets, to eat our dinners? I know I do.
Will the photographic proof of an excellent dinner prepared and eaten at sea all within the cockpit of a dinghy, be admissible?
There'll be laughter in paradise as I struggle to pull my grand-dad's evening costume on, over the top of my wetsuit.
Frogmogman
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One season when I was racing on a Contessa 32, we had a good gastronomic rivalry going in the offshore races with another boat in our class, having regular radio exchanges on what the menu plans were for the next meal. Once, when we'd had a very good Deauville race, we were already tied up in the marina when our friend came through on the VHF. When we told him that we were already in port there was a silence. After a moment he came back saying that he'd understood that they had to finish all their Australian wine before they could enter french territorial waters.
On one occasion subsequently I did a race in the solent with him, and when he disappeared below to make some tea, he whipped up some devilled kidneys as an afternoon snack for the crew.
prv
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Sadly I didn't take a picture of the final result, but here's the first stage of the onion gravy I made to go with the sausage and mash on the way over to Cherbourg this year:
This year we ate in the cockpit, but last year we sat around the table instead (it hinges open).
Can't comment on the attire
Pete
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Greenheart
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Got to say, Pete, I'm not that impressed. That photo says...oh, so many things...
...the bed still unmade at dinner-time
...the rather chaotic forepeak, the psycho-blade sliding round scratching the fiddles as she heels, Crocodile Dundee's hat on the sofa when it should be on his head, the Man With One Brown Shoe leaving his footwear in the fo'c'sle...
...plus the blatant Sainsbury's product-placement, and a sad, single chopped onion in the foreground. And...is that a pot of gravy granules? Surely you use the juices, bones and remnants of some recent carnivorous banquet, to make a hearty stock, sir? No?
The wash behind my Topper used to be like Downton Abbey's trash-can...pheasant feathers, oyster-shells, asparagus...
What's the prize going to be? If I'm photographed, sautéing scallops & chorizo, gently stirring a spash of retsina into a jug of tzatziki, whilst trapezing and adjusting both the mainsheet and my cummerbund and the centreboard simultaneously, do I win?
...the bed still unmade at dinner-time
...the rather chaotic forepeak, the psycho-blade sliding round scratching the fiddles as she heels, Crocodile Dundee's hat on the sofa when it should be on his head, the Man With One Brown Shoe leaving his footwear in the fo'c'sle......plus the blatant Sainsbury's product-placement, and a sad, single chopped onion in the foreground. And...is that a pot of gravy granules? Surely you use the juices, bones and remnants of some recent carnivorous banquet, to make a hearty stock, sir? No?
The wash behind my Topper used to be like Downton Abbey's trash-can...pheasant feathers, oyster-shells, asparagus...
What's the prize going to be? If I'm photographed, sautéing scallops & chorizo, gently stirring a spash of retsina into a jug of tzatziki, whilst trapezing and adjusting both the mainsheet and my cummerbund and the centreboard simultaneously, do I win?
Tidewaiter2
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Got to say, Pete, I'm not that impressed. That photo says...oh, so many things...
...the bed still unmade at dinner-time
...plus the blatant Sainsbury's product-placement, and a sad, single chopped onion in the foreground. And...is that a pot of gravy granules? Surely you use the juices, bones and remnants of some recent carnivorous banquet, to make a hearty stock, sir? No?
The wash behind my Topper used to be like Downton Abbey's trash-can...pheasant feathers, oyster-shells, asparagus...
What's the prize going to be? If I'm photographed, sautéing scallops & chorizo, gently stirring a spash of retsina into a jug of tzatziki, whilst trapezing and adjusting both the mainsheet and my cummerbund and the centreboard simultaneously, do I win?
No, you get Sectioned, or sold to a Circus
Tidewaiter2
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What a great idea!
Not sure about the question of attire, though...don't we all already wear dinner-jackets, to eat our dinners? I know I do.
Will the photographic proof of an excellent dinner prepared and eaten at sea all within the cockpit of a dinghy, be admissible?
There'll be laughter in paradise as I struggle to pull my grand-dad's evening costume on, over the top of my wetsuit.
I think you could be allowed to heave to or anchor(cue thread on best anchor for preparing gourmet....) during robing?
Amulet
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What - no votes for black pudding in a roll! You must be mad.
BlackJacksGaff
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Dunno why but apples always take fantastic at sea. Anyway, one of my fave butties is corned beef with lashings of english mustard and branston pickle!
Frogmogman
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Black pudding and apples...now we're talking
