Yummy Stuff: Boating Recipes

Galley Guys

July 11, 2024

Gourmands extraordinaire, Canadian Boating’s Galley Guys (and Girls) have made boats and food synonyms. When they are out on the water, it’s snackilicious; when they tie up it’s off to a shoreside eatery.

Snacking and summer boating are inseparable. Cook in advance or better yet, fire up the stern rail barbecue.

Grilled Fish Tacos

What could be more appropriate to make on board your boat than fish? And what could be more fun than a taco? healthy Grilled Fish Tacos with lots of toppings can be ready in less than 30 minutes. All you need to get started is a lean and flakey white fish, some fresh ingredients like cilantro and lime and some corn or flour tortillas. 

Grilled Chicken

with the right marinade and a good feel for the grill, chicken has the potential to be the perfect recipe for an evening spent out on the boat. And with creative sides, maybe even something else grilled, you can easily take it over the top.

Corn on the Cob

Corn season will be starting soon. And it couldn’t be easier or simpler to get it perfect – all you need is some butter, salt and your grill, and it’ll be ready for you and your passengers to enjoy.

Turkey-Avocado Club Sandwich

For a simple lunch, sometimes the best option is a sandwich. But who says it has to be boring? All you’ll need are typical sandwich fixings, including turkey and, of course, avocado. Make lunchtime exciting!

Watermelon Salad

Picture a hot summer day, out in the sun. What’s the one fruit you’re most likely to grab? The answer for many people is watermelon. If that’s the case, why not dress it up in a watermelon salad from loveandlemons.com? With feta, avocado, mint and lime, this salad is delicious and refreshing, just like its watermelon base.

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Grand summer meals on board should be light, colourful, easy to prepare, sumptuous and most importantly, best served with great friends around your table!

For years, my family has savoured over summer meals of mouth-watering flank steak, the long lean muscle taken from the under belly side of a cow. There was a time not that long ago when flank steak was considered a lesser, inexpensive choice of meat and much underrated, but this misconception has changed in recent years as fancier restaurants have increasingly slipped it on to their menus and marinating recipes have become easily accessible on the Internet.

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Old Salts and Sea Salts

The old sea salt expression; “Over the transom”  can generally mean one of two things; we have lost something overboard, or something arrived unannounced.  Most often if something arrives unnannounced, we just toss it back into the sea, however, sometimes the object can prove to be a real treasure.  So, another boating cookbook arrived at our door without any advance warning and the choices were; to chuck it overboard, park it on the shelf with our other boating cookbooks, or crack it open and see if it was really something special.  Wow, we were hooked like a salmon!

Sea Salt: Recipes from the West Coast Galley by Alison Malone Eathorne, Hilary Malone and Lorna Malone with photography by Christina Symons and published by Harbour Publishing, instantly came to life.

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The Ultimate Sailboat Galley!

The Galley Guys gave me a daunting one-day assignment while at the 2008 Annapolis Boat Show: determine which sailboat, currently available in Canada, had the best and possibly the ultimate galley. Have you ever attended the Annapolis Boat Show? Seen an aerial shot of it? Daunting! Amazing! Thankfully, limiting the assignment to boats available in Canada made the job a tiny bit easier.

So what are the key considerations when determining who has the ultimate galley? I opted for the basics. I considered what kind of storage was for dry goods, cutlery, serving wear, glasses and so on.

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EZ Cruisin’ One Pot Chicken Dinner

Here is a motto to make your cruisin’ lifestyle better; know your boat, know your mechanic and know your butcher! Plan your course and chart your meals. In my younger days, while I was in training to someday become the Galley Guy I appear to be now, I enjoyed learning how to cook at home. You’d think my wife would’ve been appreciative, but she never failed to point out that (when I was finished) there wouldn’t be a clean pot or utensil left in the entire house.

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Galley Guys Hit Halifax for Lemon Chicken

In our quest to encourage boaters to dine and entertain with fun and flare, the Galley Guys showed up at the Halifax Boat Show this past Valentine’s Day, February 14th to join in the “Cooking Onboard” presentations being made by Michele Stevens at the show.

Michele is a 4th generation sailmaker and her loft, called Michele Stevens Sail Loft in Second Peninsula, Nova Scotia is the official sailmaker to the Bluenose II. With her all-woman team, they produce sails as well as upholstery, cushions, sail bags and custom work.

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Paving the Way to Cleaner Boating – How a Commitment to Reducing our Environmental Impact is Inspiring Cleaner Boating in Ontario

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