Cooking On The Norfolk Broads

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How To make Dinner without Blowing The Bloody Boat Up.

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Lunch

Go to the pub - the food's good and cheap ! - but if you insist on bypassing one of England's finer institutions here are a few suggestions.

Salads

Salads are usually quick and easy to prepare. At home I prefer to buy fresh ingredients and prepare my own salads, but with the space constraints on a boat I recommend buying the pre-packaged salad bags. I find that they don't last as long as fresh - this is because the contents have been chopped by a machine and then sealed in a bag with an inert gas. Once the air gets to the cut portion spoilage sets in. If you tear lettuce rather than cut it will stay fresher longer.

Hard Boiled Eggs are a nice addition to a salad (You did keep some left over from Breakfast didn't you ?)

A word of caution here. It's very tempting to cook while under way. On a cruiser the boat doesn't really move around that much, but they do have a habit of bumping into things (like yachts trying to tack down a river). I'm not sure if this is designer or driver error, but it happens. When it does a number of the basic laws of physics come into play. So as you jump around the boat because a saucepan full of hot liquid has just shot off the stove and on to your foot you will have proven all of Newton's three laws. There's also another law, Tearle's second law of sailing, hot liquids will only splash on exposed skin. There is a derivation of this law that states that while cooking food splatters will only land on articles of new clothing.

So your boat has has just rammed a yacht sending him into the reeds, you are jumping about with third degree burns to your foot (so you really though that going bare foot was better than wearing deck shoes?) so now might be a good time to tie up to the bank somewhere (preferably away from the lunatic in the yacht who now wants to insert a boat hook into the driver of your boat).

So while doing lunch it's also a good time to do any prep work you need to do for dinner, cleaning, chopping veggies, putting meat in a marinade etc.

Soups are also a great idea. You can make them in the morning and put them in a thermos for later.

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