Cooking on a Boat: Meals to Share

By Heather Alsobrook

These are recipes that I have shared with many friends on our boat. It started with the Apple Crisp. This is one of my first well known recipe's. Delicious, warm and the smell as it cooks in your oven is enough to put you right over the edge. The perfect combination for a dessert, all you need is a scoop of vanilla ice cream or some fresh whipped cream! We have taken many of these recipes to “Sun Downer” parties. What is a “Sun Downer Party” you ask? It's when we get together with a bunch of other boaters on the dock, at sundown. We watch the sunset and bring our own beverage and a dish to share. We visit and talk about the weather and our boats and our families, share advice and tips and recipes. It's just an excuse to get together and share a variety of different food while the sun goes down. Why we never did this on land is beyond me!

This is why I brought this book together, a wide variety of dishes that you can share with friends at your home, at your dock, at a potluck, whatever you wish! I was propositioned once for my Hot Taco Dip! Warm, flavorful, cheesy, add a crunchy tortilla chip, just make sure you give it enough time to cool or you will burn off the roof of your mouth. Italian Wedding Soup, warm on a cool night, easy to put together, add a fresh baguette and you have a meal! Pasta salad, a favorite for an offshore snack, or when you are taking a picnic to the beach. Easy, quick and so tasty, just grab your favorite italian dressing! Bread Dips, Bacon Wrapped Sea Scallops, Spicy Avocado Salsa, Sloppy Joes, Cold Taco Dip, and one of my favorites fried Wontons and Crab Rangoon! All of these recipes and more. Twenty five of my favorites! Hope you enjoy them and come back for more!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Heather Alsobrook
• Release date: May 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310250484

Heather Alsobrook

Before I tell you about myself, I want to take a moment to thank my Mom, Nancy Anderson! She taught me to do so much when I was young. She gave me the love of cooking, sailing and sewing! As soon as I was old enough to hold a spoon, she had me in the kitchen. I made my first 'by myself' monkey bread at 5 years old, while she was still sleeping. Thank you Mom for all that you have taught me. I love you with all my heart! To my Mom and Karl, you showed me what “True Love” looks like and for that I will always be grateful!Mother of two, Michael and Felicia, grandmother of two, Amy and Benjamin. Married to my Perfect Partner Syd, best friend and confidant. He has supported me through all the cooking trials and tribulations over the past decade! We live aboard our only home: S/V Perfect Partner. She is a 1982, Spindrift 43 Pilothouse. Cooking food that tastes good is what I'm passionate about and I love to feed people.I have lived on a boat for two years. Most of my cooking was done on land for my family and our friends. I love to cook and be creative with cooking. I didn't want to sacrifice what I cooked because I was living on a boat, so I brought my most important kitchen gadgets with me and have learned to use them on the boat. I have a Kitchen Aid mixer (doesn't use nearly as much power as you might think, although it does need a big place for storage, we are lucky and have a perfect spot. A good food processor, I like to make my own hummus and olive tapenade, also used for making biscuits! My cast iron skillets, I love cooking with these and they are great on the boat. I use them almost every day. My Pampered Chef clay baking pans, the 9x13 is for pot lucks and sharing lasagna, enchilada's and such. The bread pans are used when it's cold outside and we need to help keep the boat warm, the cookie sheets are preheated for cooking “make your own pizza” night! Oh, and let's not forget the coffee grinder (nothing like fresh ground beans for our french press in the morning). We have the Cuisinart that you load beans into, it is hidden in a little cabinet on the boat, cute and convenient. I've always been a good cook and really enjoy feeding our family and friends. I have made many dishes for potlucks, and have had countless people over and shared with them some of my delicious recipes. spare ribs, shrimp and scallop fra diavolo, lasagna, bread pudding spicy marinara, fish, chili, clam chowder, quiche, Swedish christmas bread (jules cake), Swedish rye bread, banana bread, zucchini bread, you name it and I can cook it on my boat, jumbo chocolate chip cookies, brownies, apple crisp, chocolate cream pie...This is my first cookbook, please feel free to send me an email with any errors or omissions or comment on what other type of cook books you'd like to see from me. I love to be creative with cooking and put new recipe's together. More recipe books are coming!

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Cooking on a Boat

Meals to Share

Don't sacrifice your kitchen or love for cooking,

because you live on a boat

with

S/V Perfect Partner

Written by:

Heather Alsobrook

Cooking On A Boat With Perfect Partner

Meals To Share  By Heather Alsobrook Copyright 2014 Heather Alsobrook Smashwords Edition

First Edition

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Book data: 29 pages; 5665 words; 25 Table of Contents entries, Last Edit Date 05/23/14

Book designer: Heather Alsobrook

Cover designer: Syd Alsobrook

Layout assistants: Syd and Heather Alsobrook

Proofreaders: Cindy Ann Bowers

My goal with this book is to help each of you make these recipes your own.  If you are not creative, then you have a great recipe right from the start.  Many cooks, like me, will prefer one vegetable over another, or will eat only chicken, some people love cayenne pepper, others can't have