Save America’s Treasures, a part of the National Parks Service, has awarded Association for Maritime Preservation (AMP) a $300,000 matching grant. What does this mean for the Riggin? AMP has agreed to take on the rebuild of the Riggin as their first project!
While the actual work on the boat will begin the fall of 2010, [...]
Changes are fun and they are afoot in our world. As you’ll see, we’ve shifted Artichokes and Asparagus, my food blog. The new name is now At Home & At Sea. Sound familiar? Yup, it’s the name of my cookbook and WAS the domain name for the cookbook website. The cookbook website is no longer [...]
Ella and Chloe like our Kids and Family trips because there are so many new kids to play with. So much so that we almost never see them. I don’t really know how that’s possible to, in only 89 feet, NOT see someone for an extended period of time, but it happens. Routinely.
As the the [...]
The 2009 season has ended, the boat is ready for our cold and snowy Maine winter that’s coming much sooner than we’d like (we’ve already had our first bit of snow!!) and the crew is off on their next adventure. We’d like to say thank you to all our first time sailors, repeat guests and [...]
This recipe from At Home, At Sea, came from three years of working with Hans Bucher, my mentor. He served it with pasta or risotto; it was one of his wife’s favorite combinations. Sometimes we would wrap the shrimp in Prosciutto and grill it while making the sauce with the olives.
Recently, Plating Up shared this one [...]
This past Saturday Maine Food & Lifestyle’s blog – Plating Up featured one of Chef Annie’s recipes. If you own a copy of the At Home At Sea cookbook you may recall the story of the Pyrex explosion! This is what Annie made instead – it was both fast and easy.
Grilled Chicken with Passion Fruit Sauce
2 whole [...]
The perfect sailing moments DO come! Sunny, but not too hot. Mixed with windy, about 15 knots of breeze from a fair direction. Peppered with just enough time to sit on the rail and breathe in the clean, ocean air spiced with the faint scent of seaweed from the beach, salt and the warm scent [...]
Crossroads Banana BreadExcerpt from At Home, At Sea: Recipes from the Maine Windjammer J&E Riggin By Annie Mahle
4 ripe bananas, peeled and mashed1 teaspoon lemon juice1 cup sugar½ cup shortening2 large eggs2 tablespoons buttermilk2 cups all-purpose flour½ teaspoon salt1 teaspoon baking soda2 teaspoons baking powder
Preheat oven to 350°. Grease one loaf pan.In a small bowl, [...]
Getting our schooner ready for the season is a little like getting a broadway show ready for it's run. If you aren't done, the curtain is rising anyway. In the midst of what some years becomes crazy chaos as we near our first sailing date, our kids still have school (and need to get there [...]
