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Thinking about food and sailing! LONG
Posted By: Bill Nolen, WWPotter Owners Home Port
Date: 6/28/09 4:19p.m.
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Today, while waiting for lunch, I was thinking about food (my beloved wife has me on a diet!) and the great article that Anne Westlund wrote and I posted in May entitled: “Cooking aboard a small Sailboat” In which Anna gives some good suggestions on provisioning and cooking in very limited spaces. http://www.wwpotterowners.com/Technical52.html This led my thoughts to the five day supply of food the sailors who entered the 2009 Texas 200 had to carry within their sailboats for the 200 mile voyage, and the different ways each sailors planned what they would eat. Our friend and Potter sailor John Turpin supplied his P-15 with a 5-day supply of ready-to-eat freeze-dried camping style meals. Just add water and eat! Several other sailors followed John’s example with such ready-to-eat meals. One such sailor wrote that even mixed with cold water, (his stove broke) the food still tested good! One of the sailors who sailed one of the 8-foot Paddle Duck Racers (PDR) ate only 5 high-energy bars each day, for 5-days! Well, you have to admit there isn’t a lot of room in a PDR. All this got me to really thinking, which is always a very scary thing, that in the Potter World there was a lot of good information about the different meals that Potter sailors prepare and eat on their day sails and weekend voyages. So what I’m going to ask you nice folks is this: how about sharing with all of us the great way you bake a turkey, stuffing, etc. in a 2-quart pan? OK, maybe that is an old family secret that you can’t share, but how about a simple meal that you do enjoy that takes only one pan or pot. For example, we have all read about cooking scrambled eggs in a ZIP bag in boiling water. I’ve often wondered how powered eggs and powered milk, and a little water in the old ZIP bag would taste like? Has anyone tried that? Something like that is what I have in mind. Simple, but good, and eatable. So how about it? Post the information here, or send it to me, and I’ll put all in an article so the whole world will know about your great cooking skills! Maybe I could combined all the information into a Sailing Cookbook...sell it and get RICH. I'm sure everyone would like for me to become RICH...wouldn't you?? Yeah, it is time for my medication! Bill
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