Sail with New Freebooters

Whether you’re in normal sailing waters in the north, or down with Thomas Coville or the Vendée Globe skippers in the southern ocean, thick and hearty soups will go down well at this time of year. I was very happy to hear that Kay McMahon has just posted a basic recipe for leek & potato [...]

Even in light weather, sailing can give you an appetite. During a windy passage, you work hard and need to keep warm. You need tasty food that packs a big calorie punch, but it needs to be easy to prepare or re-heat using the typical two-burners-and-a-small-oven found in a yacht galley. Kay McMahon’s Goulash Soup [...]

While places further north are getting significant snowfalls, all I’m getting here in the Limousin region of France  is fine drizzle that isn’t quite cold enough to become sleet. I was just beginning to think that it was getting past the time for eating toast and Serrano ham or smoked salmon, backed up with lamb’s [...]

Keith has just spent an enjoyable week in the French Alps. This is the first story from that trip. There will be more:

by Mike K-H A long time ago, on France for Freebooters , I wrote one or two cooking articles under the pseudonym of ‘Man in Greasy Shirt’. The idea for the name came from cartoonist Larry’s ‘Man in Apron’ series, which showed his character applying male logic to the challenges of cooking. Recently, I let [...]