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Caribbean Duck Breasts

Caribbean Duck Breasts

Over the many years I spent in the Caribbean and cooking aboard various yachts, I’ve of course made lots of recipes that are island themed.  It’s interesting that this is a “Caribbean” duck breast recipe because duck wasn’t always easy to find in the earlier years, but has become a lot easier to find with […]

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Mom, Dad, The Baths on Virgin Gorda, Meatloaf and a Glass of Chianti

Mom, Dad, The Baths on Virgin Gorda, Meatloaf and a Glass of Chianti

When you live on a tropical Caribbean island, you tend to get a lot of visitors. My Mom and Dad were always amongst my favorites. My Dad had a tendency to get a bit queasy, so we always coordinated their visits with very close island friends, Jerry and Lisa, making a trip home to New […]

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The Green Flash

Cornish Hens, at Anchor on the Back Side of Tortola and the Green Flash

Big green flash” by Brocken Inaglory – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. I’ve done a lot of sailing vacations with friends and family, and quite a few with my dearest friends Pam and Dan. We actually had a sailing vacation every year for almost a decade! They are some of […]

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Have You Ever Heard of Tofu Garlic

Have you ever heard of tofu garlic?

Well, I hadn’t either, until… In the early 1990’s I was eating at a restaurant on the top of the mountain in Estate Dorothea on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas in the USVI over looking Magen’s Bay. I was dining with friends at an Italian restaurant named Ferrari’s Ristoranté, that was partnered, managed and […]

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