When you sail, you burn a lot of calories and need fresh fuel all the time. In this article, we make your mouth water with delicious recipes from the book ‘Food on a boat’ by Anneke Sips, specifically for lunch.
Enjoy the preparation
Good preparation is half the battle, it is always said. And preparation can be super fun, so enjoy it to the fullest.
Think in advance what delicious local ingredients you can find, and take that as the basis of your recipes. Think of things like: nuts, cheese, olives and olive oil, fresh vegetables, and fresh fruit.
Besides the ingredients you can find locally with you also think to bring what cannot be found locally. For example, certain foods and drinks, as well as pursuits such as reading books, music, or a travel guide.
Think about lunch
People do say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and that is true, but lunch should definitely not be forgotten. You spend the whole day enjoying the wind in the sails, and perhaps swimming and snorkelling. Then you need good food in between, too. Fill your stomach with these delicious meals.
Greek peasant salad
The first recipe is for a delicious Greek peasant salad. This salad is tasty, simple, and fun to make on a summer afternoon or evening.
Ingredients
- 1 cucumber
- 5 tomatoes
- 1 (red) onion
- 100-150g feta cheese
- 100g black (Kalamata) olives
- Oil
- Vinegar
- Dried oregano
Preparation
In a salad bowl, mix a generous splash of olive oil with just as much vinegar.
Peel the cucumber, a cheese slicer is very handy for this, and cut into cubes. Cut the tomato into wedges and the onion into thin rings. Place in everything in the bowl and mix with the dressing. Crumble the feta over the top and the black olives and sprinkle with some oregano.
Serve with hearty (baguette) bread, which you can also dip nicely in the oil and vinegar.
Neptune Spanish tortilla
The following recipe is a great Spanish tortilla, and is much loved by Neptune.
- Ingredients
- 1 onion
- 1 clove of garlic
- 2 medium-sized potatoes
- ½ litre of broth
- 4 tomatoes
- 6 eggs
- 50ml milk
- Pepper
- Salt
- Paprika
Preparation
Fry the onion and garlic in a frying pan. Peel the potatoes and cut into cubes. Place the potato pieces in the pan and add so much stock that the potatoes are just submerged and cook the potatoes until almost done.
Meanwhile, make the omelette mixture: beat the eggs with a dash of milk, a little salt and pepper and paprika. Chop the tomatoes and mix into the omelette mixture. Pour in the almost-cooked pieces of potatoes from the pan as well. Put a little oil in the pan and pour the omelette-with-potatoes mixture into the frying pan. Put the lid on the pan with an open crack and cook gently on low heat.
The tortilla is done when the top of the tortilla is dry. Place a plate on top of the pan and invert onto the plate. Cut into wedges.
More tasty lunch ideas
Need more ideas to enrich your sailing holiday with mouth-watering food? Consider, for example:
- Flammkuchen
- Kontiki pasta salad
- Ceviche, with freshly caught fish
- Bean salad
- Quiche
- Beetroot salad
- Bruschetta
- Cucumber mackerel salad
- Mexican tortillas/ Quesadillas
- Pancakes
These and more recipes and tips can be found in the book Food on a boat, Delicious sailing from Mexico to Australia. Available from (online) bookshops, such as Bol.com, and from LJ Harri.
Also check out these tips for cooking on a yacht!