Friday, December 18, 2009

Cane Garden Bay, Tortola


Moored here for the night.

Apparently someone sneaked a peak at my passport as it was lying at the helm and the guests found out my birthday is Sunday. They asked me if I could be anywhere in the islands for my day where would I be (uh STT hello?!?!!?!) but I said it didn't really matter to me, which it doesn't because we are back in the BVI and we can't go back to the US. So they are giving me the day off from cooking on Sunday and they are taking me out to dinner. So nice!

Today we had sub sandwiches and chips and I created the tastiest little dessert! Since the oven is broken I resorted to creativity. After breakfast of pancakes, bacon and eggs I whipped up my blueberry muffin mix and made silver dollar blueberry muffin pancakes. I set them aside and scooped out about a half a stick of cream cheese into a mixing bowl, added a bit of vanilla, and about 3 tablespoons of sugar and mixed it up with a spoon. I proceeded to build mini blueberry cheesecake sandwiches. I set them in the freezer and I served them after lunch. You should have heard the ooh's and ahh's LOL! I love being a smart ass. After lunch we head out to do some more provisioning and the oven man came to fix the oven. YAY! So now I can proceed with my baking plans. :)

Tonight I am making BBQ pork chops with sauteed yellow squash and zucchini and twice baked potatoes. For an appetizer I am making little caprese salad skewers. They are marinating right now. All I did for that it cube some mozzarella cheese, throw it in a big ziplock bag, add some olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper, basil flakes and some minced garlic, and halved cherry tomatoes. Then you just shake it up! Let it marinate for a few hours. Then you take some toothpicks, skewer one half of a tom, then a cheese cube then another half a tom. Repeat. TA DA! Easy and delish.

Tonight I think I will take it easy, Hal says he is going into town tonight and coming back in the morning which is fine with me. I can take care of things here. He needs his nights out.

Tomorrow we are off to Marina Cay and monkey point on Guana Island for snorkeling. I assume I will have interwebs there but you never know. I seem to find it in the least likely of places.

Cheers to Maria who is finally where she belongs back at home on Arigato Jack! Possibly the best boat name in the world. Oh so relieved and happy for you!!!

6 comments:

  1. Jolea you broke the oven! LOL just kidding!

    Sounds like you are having an awesome charter! :-) What a great group of people!!!

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  2. No, but she just broke the cabinet while trying to Skype me. I gotta find my camera.

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  3. I love the recipes being thrown in - wonderful... keep it up I am planning to try some.. have a little bit of Jolea's island adventure!

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  4. Love CGB... almost that same view from the villa I rented in February this past winter. Sigh. Wish I lived there.

    So how did you learn to cook like this... did you go to school for it? The meals sound delish!

    Sandra

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  5. Ha ha ha ha Sandy! I just follow the recipe. This is the first time I have been a "chef" on board a charter boat. I was crew chef for 9 guys on a 151 ft mega yacht for a month a few years ago though. It's not as hard as I thought it would be. The hardest part is coming up with ideas for the meals.

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  6. I was going to say she learned from her mother, but I never got a chance to get much more exotic than Fajitas.

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