One Skillet Meals

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Jeff and Julie

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We are finally heading up to Bell Harbor this weekend, after rescheduling for November 2X!! I am looking for easy, one dish (skillet) meals to cook on the Wallas. Anyone have any favorites they are willing to share? I have 2 boys, 7 and 5, so anything tried and true with kids would be wonderful.

Thanks!!
Julie
 
Breakfast In-A-Bowl

Can help if ya do some work at home and put parts of the meal in quart baggies, whole meal in gallon baggie, dump in skillet and cook when on boat.

1/4 cup sharp cheddar cheese
1 biscuit or 2 pieces of toast
1 sausage pattie cooked and drained
2 eggs...(you pick if you want to pre-cook the eggs...)

At home I cooked a batch of biscuits, or toast, and heated up some sausage patties. Then, I added the ratio above to the food processor..(if you are feeding 3 folks...mulitply the above by 3.... you get the idea)... ground that stuff up. On the boat, heated up the wallace, put down the handy buy it at walmart cooking pan that covered the wallce, scrambled the eggs, and at about 50% cooked, added the bread and sausage, and at about 90% cooked, added the cheese. Dump it in bowls and feed the gang.

Of course, you can cook all the stuff on the boat, cut up all the stuff on the boat...but... why not take advantage of the things at home and get the excitement up for the trip to come. I have also frozen the "Meals-in-a-Bag" (except the eggs)... and used as ice in the cooler... A little thaw time may be needed if feeding on day one or two...depending on the cooler action.. :beer :beer :mrgreen:
 
Hi Folks,

Most of you will not like this, but I got this meal from a fellow who wrote a book about sailing around Long Island.

Add a pad of PARKAY, cube SPAM (the SPAM we eat, not the SPAM we read.)into a frying pan. Brown it on all sides. Add FRANCO-AMERICAN MACARONI AND CHEESE. Heat, plate it and add CATCHUP.

Serve with bread and PARKAY.

It is good.

Will fill you up. Not recommended for Heart Patients..

Fred
 
If you go with freeze dry, you can skip the skillet. Just add hot water and wait 5 minutes. "Mountain house", lots of variety and a great price make for a lazy mans special! Mike on Huda Thunkit. :idea
 
HOBO STEW


1 ground beef patty

1 or 2 sliced potato (s) depending on appetite

1 carrot sliced

1 stalk of celery sliced

1 onion sliced

Salt and pepper (I use Mrs. Dash)

Add each item on top of the Ground Beef Patty to make one serving.
Cover and Cook until carrots are fork tender

You can add other vegetables such as hot/sweet peppers, summer squash, etc.
 
This takes a pot and pan but I guess you can mod it to one.

We make a large amount of good quality rice in a rice cooker or a covered pot. Boil extra water for coffee, tea, hot chocolate,.... place into Thermos bottle.

In a pan add one or two cans of corned beef (Hormel), add a little olive oil, onions (fresh or dried), no salt, dash of ground pepper (hot sauce, soy sauce or.....), cook until nearly done then add one can of corn, stir, and cook until corn is hot. Serve it on top of the rice. Our kids always adds catsup.

Some folks fry egg(s) and place on it top w or w/o the catsup.

The leftover rice is kept warm and allow to become firm for diy deserts.
Options include milk, cream, sugar, honey, vanilla, cut fresh fruit, canned peaches, graham crackers, can pudding (chocolate), ......what ever is in the pantry .....etc to taste.

Completion time is 20 -30 minutes.

The play cards or board game. I love to play cribbage.

ok part 2

Wipe pan with paper towel, add some oil, fry up biscuits in a tube. sprinkle sugar with cinamon. Good for breakfast, dinner or night snack.


Chicken with white sauce (alfredo)

Make rice and keep warm.

pan fry cutup chicken breasts, season to taste.
When completely cooked, add white sauce, stir and serve hot over rice.

DIY rice deserts and maybe fried biscuits.
 
Sounds like a hold-over from my singlehanded sailing days!

We always have some packaged. rice or noodle dishes on board - Asian Noodles, Terriyaki Noodles or rice, something like that. We prepare one and then toss in a small can of chicken or ham, along with a can of mixed veggies. Add some hot sauce and a cold beer or soft drink and that's it. Filling, cheap, easy and good.

Another quick meal is to boil some spaghetti or other pasta, drain the water and add some dried onions, garlic and olive oil (or margerine). Stir and serve.

Nick
"Valkyrie"
 
This last fall when we decided to cruise the San Juans for the first time on our smaller(not a c-dory)boat, I looked for recipes that could be cooked on our single butane burner. Pressure cookers seemed to be the answer to our quest for simple, easy, fast, nutritional meals. We use a pressure cooker at home all the time. In my search for recipes I came across this one for beef stew. It is so yummy, I request it at home all the time. (Gene cooks this up.) He fixed it at Deer Harbor one evening and the entire marina smelled wonderful. Here is the link to the recipe. Try it, you won't be dissapointed. www.recipezaar.com/recipe/getrecipe.zsp ... 815&format
 
there's some interesting sounding recipeis here, I think I saw an Iron chef show that featured Parkay and Spam :)

head to Walmart and get a small microwave for about $38, it will make life easier, especially with young eating machines onboard...soup, chilly, popcorn, hot sandwiches, quick and easy
 
Byrdman hit it right on -- prep beforehand and keep the on-board work to a minimum.

Here's a couple books from my backpacking/canoeing days:

"The One Pan Gourmet" Fresh Food on the Trail, Boat, Bike, Canoe . . .
by Don Jacobson McGraw Hill 1993

"Roughing it Elegantly" A Practical Guide to Canoe Camping by Patricia J. Bell Cat's paw Press 1987

I refer to these books quite often even though they're getting dated.

Al S
 
In the Canadian magazine "Pacific Yachting" there is a regular galley/cooking column by James Barber. Many of the columns have to do with one pot cooking and he has published a book "One Pot Wonders". We have not tried any of his recipes yet but many look good, interesting, and not overly complex. The book is published by Harbour Publishing and is a 2006 imprint. His e-mail is James@theurbanhub.com.

Incidentally, "Pacific Yachting" is in my opinion, the best northwest boating magazine out there. Every edition has at least one serious, worthwhile usually safety related article. This month's is a detailed discussion of "How to Safely Navigate Lower Johnstone Strait". It is a far cry from the glossy infomercials masquerading as magazines that we are stuck with from U.S. publishers.
 
You can do a lot of one dish wonders by having this guy's stuff aboard:

http://www.tonychachere.com/mixes/rice_dinner_mixes.cfm

Just mix up the meats to have completely different tastes. For instance if you've got Polish sausage or smoked sausage link (1lb) combine that with a can of chicken for plain gumbo. If you're catching fish and crab, put that in the gumbo for seafood gumbo. Same with the rest. If you're long range cruising, canned chicken and canned vienna sausages work fine as well and everything is completely sealed and portable. Ditto canned crab, clams, etc.
 
Alasgun":1vu4brv0 said:
If you go with freeze dry, you can skip the skillet. Just add hot water and wait 5 minutes. "Mountain house", lots of variety and a great price make for a lazy mans special! Mike on Huda Thunkit. :idea
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Mike---I'll second that! I've lived well on Mountain House for extended periods of time while on foot in the high country. Very quick to fix and taste good. One of the few dried foods that do.

Jay
 
Get a sirloin and cut it into bite size pieces at home. Same with potatoes, carrots and onions. Freeze if you want. Brown the sirloin at home or on the Wallas. On the boat combine and cook as a stew or as a roast. Use left overs with eggs in the morning.

Eggs scrambled with the little bite size smokey sausages, these go over well.
 
Julie,

On a related note, Janet asked me to pass this on to you. She found a book at Fisheries Supply called "Six Ingredients or Less, Pasta and Casseroles" Many of the dishes are done in one pot and look ideal for simple boat meals.

Our friend, Lynn Alley, has 3 cookbooks that can apply to onboard cooking, "The Gourmet Toaster Oven" and Volumes I and 2 of "The Gourmet Slow Cooker". If you have an Inverter, a crock pot can be cooking away while you cruise the San Juans!

Bon appetite!

 
Thanks for the crockpot suggestion!! We do have an inverter but I am not familiar with how much battery drain, etc. I can get away with. I know I can at least use it when we are underway or hooked up to shore power :D !!
Tell Janet thanks for the cookbook idea! 6 ingredients or less sounds great to me!

Julie
 
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