Cuisine

Farm and Sea to Galley

Gorge

September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Fall 2019

Gorge Harbour is for sale. One of our favorite marinas with new and obsessively swept and washed docks, easy access from Desolation Sound, a surprisingly well-provisioned grocery store, swimming pool ... Read more

Hooked

July 19, 2019July 19, 2019 Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Summer 2019

During the past weeks we noted an increase in fishing boats prowling with purpose around rocky points and promontories like underdressed men trying to access an exclusive nightclub. Why? Salmon ... Read more

Wave Top Crops

July 2, 2019July 2, 2019 Adventures, British Columbia, Cuisine, Summer 2019

Jupiter is nearing the apogean northwestern tip of Vancouver Island. Regardless of solstitial days and fine weather, we have passed far beyond the verdant valleys of the Saanich Peninsula where ... Read more

Archipelagic Aspirations

June 2, 2019January 5, 2020 Adventures, Cuisine, Summer 2019, Washington

Vancouver Island predominates the geography of southern British Columbia. This landmass, 300 miles long and 50 miles wide, is thick with highlands and thin with rivers, inlets and sounds. Jupiter’s ... Read more

Eating Vancouver

September 21, 2018 Adventures, Autumn 2018, British Columbia, Cuisine

Captain George Vancouver, epic explorer of Pacific America, although oft reviled was not eaten by his men. When Jupiter arrived in the explorer’s eponymous city, the ship’s crew resolved to ... Read more

Pie in the Sky

September 15, 2018 Adventures, Autumn 2018, British Columbia, Cuisine

We have been living under low ceilings – so low that it seems counter-intuitive to stand up straight. Sandwiched between the deep grey sea and low slung cloud, our view ... Read more

Rounding Revillagigedo

September 6, 2018September 9, 2018 Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2018

Sunday, Ketchikan Fueled up, moored up and grubbed up at Safeway and A&P (Alaskan & Proud) supermarkets. Fresh produce arrives in refrigerated containers via barge from Seattle on Sundays, distributed ... Read more

Catching Crabs

August 6, 2018August 17, 2018 Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2018

After several futile attempts at catching crabs in our pot carried aboard Jupiter since Bellingham, with purchased fishing licenses for B.C. and Alaska, we finally reaped a generous haul of ... Read more

Kushtakas & Kedgeree

July 13, 2018August 17, 2018 Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2018

Thomas Bay is a place of dark secrets and myths. In this narrow, well marked entrance channel tide-rips and whirlpools greeted Jupiter with bergy bits and growlers riding the flows. ... Read more

Totem Carver’s Halibut

July 8, 2018August 17, 2018 Adventures, Alaska, Cuisine, Summer 2018

Seeking neither a famous totem pole carver nor a halibut recipe, we happened upon both in one gentle, languorous, soft-spoken man. Having taken a walk to Saxman Village to see ... Read more