One of the highlights for many passengers on our windjammer is our traditional Maine Lobster Bake – a feature of all our weeklong and Maine Lighthouses & Lobster trips. It’s an all-you-can-eat feast with all the fixin’s. Seven lobsters eaten by one person in one sitting is the record (please do not try this at [...]
Maybe some vacations are out of reach this year – perhaps the guided safari trip to Africa or the high-end wine tour of Europe will have to wait (although, don't wait too long, life's too short.) But that doesn't mean a vacation is completely out, because I'm guessing it's a sure thing that the need [...]
A beautiful jar of raw honey graced our table this morning from Day Break Manor, an inn just down the road from us on Route 1 in Wiscasset. Our multigrain toast with coffee was especially good as Jon prepared for another day on the railway and the girls and I talked about what sort of [...]
My absolute favorite time of day is early in the morning when the light is golden or even still pink. The air is still, the birds are chirping and my mind is silent. In the summertime, I’m lucky enough to be able to see the sun rise and set everyday. I’m up at 4:30 am [...]
Wow. What a response to this weeks column in the Portland Press Herald on No Knead Sourdough Breads! Biggest response to a column ever. The three recipes include Rustic Sourdough Bread, Brown Rice and Flax Seed Bread and Maple, Oatmeal, Sourdough Bread. I’ll make the same offer to readers of the blog that I did [...]
When my husband and I worked in the Caribbean running a yacht as captain and chef, something we did for three years, this was a stand by and always a big hit. I constantly changed the fruit and the liquor depending on what was at the market that day (my absolute favorite place to be [...]
Before owning the Riggin, Jon and I ran a charter yacht. The bulk of our summers were spent in New England and we were always longing to spend much of that time in Maine waters. The passing of Andrew Wyeth prompted Jon to post about our first meeting of the Wyeths. My perspective was a [...]
While the idea of making all of my Christmas gifts by hand sounds alternately like a bucolic scene in Little House on the Prairie and an over achiever on steroids, I still love the idea of it. These hand warmers were easy to make and were perfect for the mountain of leftover yarn that is [...]
Two loaves of no-knead bread are infusing the office with warm, yeasty, might-need-to-find-the-butter smells. I plan on posting about how to make it later, but for now… We are now beginning to work out the final details of our two windjammer Culinary Camps. One is geared towards kids and the other adults (dates in July [...]
The most recent column in the Portland Press Herald is up online and it's basically Cooking Turkey 101. Turkey dinner was a staple meal for years while Jon and I crewed in the windjammer fleet. Consequently, we don't ever have turkey on the Riggin because Capt. Jon just can't handle turkey more than once a [...]
