Non Perishable Foods

[tom]

Rabbit Hunting with Beagles

rabbit hunting with beagles is a great young person form of hunting. There is plenty of action compared to other forms of hunting. Rabbits reproduce very rapidly and are abundant in most overgrown fields. Gun safety is important as you don't want to shoot the dogs or other hunters and it s usually a team sport with several hunters and one pack of 3-8 dogs. Unfortunately most overgrown farms have now been turned into suburbs and the remaining farmers either don't allow hunting or want you to pay. Most of the old grown up fields that Iused to hunt with my uncle are now full of houses. The rabbits are still there but have more to fear from housecats than human hunters. Man I love Ceviche!!! especially conch ceviche. I made some out of a king mackeral that I caught off Panama City but conch is king!!!! The first time I had it was in Cozumel island Mexico. Some of that same Mackeral wasn't eaten as Sushi and the rest fried. That's the beauty of fresh fish. Today sushi, tommorrow ceviche and the next day fried. Either way it beats MRE's. Sushi is really easy to make. Cook the rice and add a little sugar and vinegar to taste. Some don't add sugar. Take the very fresh fish fillets abd cut them into nice sized pieces. Eat!!! Most unusal diet was from my friend in Texas. He and a buddy were hired to castrate calfs at a remote ranch and basically lived on "rocky Mountain Oysters" and beer for about a month. No Ross they weren't near the coast and the ranch only had a few tanks and windmills for water. But the "oysters" were really fresh. As usual with Gene's drinking stories I never knew how much to believe.

 

[Fred]

I don't know if I can really call it Sushi,

but I use brown rice. I like the flavour better. Like Tom said, a little sugar (or molassas, or the sweet rice vinagar they sell for the purpose and a bit more water than usual makes it stick together. I find the brown rice stays less mushy beacause part of the hull is on every grain.By the way Tom, there's something special about hunting dogs and Sushi in the same post. I have been a hunter in the past, but as you say, you have to go farther and farther away to find somewhere safe and friendly to hunt. Here on Gabriola folks feed the deer and talk to them as they walk through the yard.If you have the Nori sheets (they keep forever if the bag is unopened)on the boat, you can make Sushi out of anything from cheese and pickles (I said I'm not sure you can really call it Sushi) to fresh caught raw snapper with a green onion.The pickled ginger and powdered wasabi (I hope homeland security doesn't send somebody around to ask about my association with wasabi) also keep forever.It's really cool to show up at a cruisers potlock where folks are down to cabbage salad, macaroni and cheese and jello with a plate of fresh Sushi.Speaking of cabbage, it keeps for months if it's wrapped in newspaper and kept in a dark place. Onions and carrots, too.A thick slice of cabbage sauted in olive oil with salt looks pretty good when all the other fresh vegetables are gone.

 

[r.w.landau]

Hormel chili no beans over pasta of your choice.

Add some onion or even dried onions, your own heat additive...It is cheap, easy, quick.Canned clams, some olive oil, parm. cheese with your on board spices over pasta. One of the wife's favorites.Coming soon, Turkey Spam... Just something to think about. I am not sure if it is palatable.r.w.landau

 

[Fred]

Don't forget dried minced garlic

along with the dried onions. Another great food that lasts forever on the boat.How about a staple foods you can leave with no refrigeration list?Olive oilVinegar (Balsamic, Cider, and white for cleaning)Dried Onions, Garlic, soup basePeanut or Sunflower oil for fryingDried spices (could be a whole seperate listBooze of all kindsOlives in brine

 

[Ross]

Fred tell us more about sauteed cabbage please.

I have always steamed cabbage but it is full of water so your method sounds good. I always add cabbage to veggie soup and the big dark green outer leaves are good when steamed and stuffed.

 

[CalebD]

Dried spices, Booze of all kinds, Olives in brine

Wait! Back that up: 'Booze of all kinds'? This discussion was supposed to be about 'Non Perishable Goods' right? Is booze a kind of food? To some people it just may be a way of eating less food.Aside from some old mustard packs, vinegar, oil, salt and the 1 liter of vodka currently swashing around in my galley water tank (good for cleaning the hands off with after working on the engine) I really need to re-stock my boat with some basics that have been outlined here. I will review the whole thread before I start shopping.This Spring I found a leak in my deck because I had left some soup bowls on the shelf above our galley, right under the deck. There were mustard packs floating in brown water (nice! we did have quite a lot of rain). I was able to locate the offending screw holes and at minimum re-bedded them which gave me the idea that you could find leaks in a boat by collecting water inside the cabin at various or all points. The leak was coming through a through deck screw hole that held my spinnaker pole support on deck. Leave the full of tupper-ware containers of empty beer bottles and find out where the most water seeped in from above. Better yet, used coffee cans which could rust all winter long! Getting back to my original topic I also like to leave some booze on board as a non-perishable item. I like to keep some rum on board mostly for the commodores cocktails but also for myself now and then. We both enjoy the taste of Gossling's Dark Seal rum since we visited Bermuda and I decanted the glass bottle into a plastic soda bottle. Well, my partner wanted to throw that out and off the boat this spring cleaning before launch and I was glad that I was there. It looks like old engine oil so I guess I can understand his wanting to get it out of our cabin. I just do not think I could use it for a fuel in the alcohol stove. We kept it at my insistence and it is non-perishable.I love a 60+ degree beer as much as the next guy but this brings me to perishable items like ice and the rest.