Cuscus. Not the **** in a box. Get plain bulk grain. It looks like
cornmeal. Add warm water and anything else. Very tasty. And the fastest
cooking grain Ive found. That is, just add hot water and let sit
covered.

Ive heard a lot about cuscus, but what do you have it with once its
hydrated.... do you just eat it by itself?


Pan bread. Mix water and whole wheat flower. Maybe a llittle salt.
Basically make a pan cake and fry it in olive oil. Ummmm. Got cheep
tasty bread. Of course you should add spices and maybe a little
parmisan cheese on top. I think ya got focata then.

Good info! I make up a basic flour/water/salt/dash of oil dough that i use
for chapatis. I roll them our nice and thin, then take a skillet (not a
teflon coated one) and turn it upside down on a flame. makes a great
surface for cooking the bread on. smear a bit of garlic butter on top for
variety. makes a great dipper in soups/curries.

Cabage, onions, carrots, beets etc. If yoiur in that part of the world.
They last forever if hung........ maybe 3 weeks in the tropics. Then ya
got vegi soup.

Pickled fish?
Pickled eggs?
Pickled pickles? and other veggies............. I wouldnot go too far.
You might end up with kimchi.

what's wrong with kimchi? I lived in korea for 4 years and learned to make
about a dozen types of kimchi as well as soy bean paste and chilli paste.
Spring onion kimchi is my favourite. yum.

SEA VEGTABLES FOOL ! Its only called sea-weed by us. Every one else
considers that stuff that goes floating by a free lunch. There are
several books on gathering and preparing sea vegies of the worlde. For
example, That green stuff that wraps Shushi is called Nori by us and
sp. Ulva Ulva by the marine botanist and lunch by everyone else.

I'd really like to know more about seaweed, ive eaten it in most of its
varierites, but i've never harvested it. There seems to be a few basic
varieties, the one that is made for sushi which is sort of chopped up, then
roasted. and then there is the one that is used more in soups, whole. The
one in the soups has a very seaweedy taste, but from what im told has a lot
of calcium in it.

Can you use any kind of seaweed you find, or are there only certain kinds?

Oh, just eat less. Youll lose weight and be healthier. Ever calclate
you BMI? Bleive me we can ALL eat less and be healthier.

Most of the sailing stories i've read are pretty depressing.... The diet
seems to consist of mostly freeze dried meals which to me are tasteless and
really cant have much nutririon. I think food is very important.

Dude, by your question I get the feeling ya havnt cooked much for
yourself. How many times a week do you eat out or open a can or a box
and call it a meal? You may need to learn how to cook. If it comes in a
box or can it ainit cookin.

sorry if i gave that impression, Ive been cooking for myself for the last 15
years, I do all the cooking at home and in return my partner does all the
cleaning. Ive been travelling the last 7 years and try to learn new recipes
whenever i can. in whatever country i live in, i eat what the locals eat.
Its cheapear and usually better for you than what you can get in 'western
restaurants'.

I think my way of cooking probably isnt all that adaptable to cruising
though.... when i look for a house i always choose one within walking
distance of a produce market because i like to shop daily to suit my tastes.
I cant remember a time in the last 10 years when i shopped for a whole week.
Most of the cooking i do at home is either 'fast' on my 3 ring LPG burner,
stir fry's and flambe dishes together with rice, or its 'slow' being roasts,
potato bakes, stews, curries. I do a bit of meat and 3 veg stuff too. Id
like to learn more dishes that can be done on a single burner, and dont
require refrigeration. Off the top of my head, i can only think of maybe
half a dozen.

I dint metion air dried fish or even eating your fish RAW for fear of
getting all the it aint safe fish wimps and haters.

come on now, dont be like that ;-) I ate a lot of air dried squid in korea,
smelly stuff!, and a lot of raw fish in japan. It's all good.

Shaun