Cooking Silly: Cooking for a Long Cruise on Silly Goose

Linda and Dale Miller

Guest blogger and Fidalgo YC member Linda Miller shares a day of cooking for Silly Goose adventures.

The recent snowstorm gave us the opportunity to use our new Mealthy Pot to create delicious meals in preparation for our trip to Alaska this year.

Here's what we made:

Instant Pot Jambalaya by Neena

Among the creations were Instant Pot Jambalaya by Neena. Recipe here.

A key ingredient for Neena's Jambalaya was the Cajun Seasoning by Penzeys Spices. It was delicious right out of the pot.

Dale used the Seal-A-Meal to save dinner size portions for the freezer for those long run days through B.C. and Alaska.

Swedish-Style Split Pea Soup

Next up was a double batch of Swedish-Style Split Pea Soup that simmered on the stove top.

Can’t have soup without bread, right? So, dashed to Jenny Can Cook.com and for Fastest No-Knead Bread.

Jenny Can Cook's Fastest No-Knead Bread

This No-Knead Bread recipe is in our club cookbook (page 179), but requires 12 hour rise time. By increasing the amount of instant yeast, we had this bread baked in two hours, start to finish.
(Jenny's 2-Hour No-Knead Bread.)

Another great discovery was using our Costco deep saucepan to bake the bread as our baker was on the boat. The bread came out perfect, light, crusty and delicious, though a little unshapely. The lighter pot was so much easier to haul in and out of the oven.

We’ve added chili, twice baked potatoes, spaghetti and Gumbo.

We found we could partially freeze dishes like chili and twice baked potatoes then seal a meal them to avoid having to use hard containers.

See you on the water!
Linda Miller, Silly Goose

I'd like to see another cooking/provisioning post.

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I'd like to see your members' favorite places to cruise in the PNW.