While our guests are lovely, they're not the easiest to cook for, for numerous reasons
1. No salt
2. No carbs
3. No cream , butter or cheese
4. Very little pasta
5. They like everything OVER cooked, hard eggs, well done meat, dry (in my opinion) fish and chicken
6.No sweets, chips and no sauces
They like to eat:
Squid
Crayfish
Lobster
King prawns
Funky fish that I've never SEEN before
Tuna (really hard to get right)
Sushi
Poached eggs (meh)
ONLY freshly squeezed juice
Home made health bread (mmmmmeeeeh)
Tea... but NOT tea bags, the pain in the ass tea
Weird fruit and vegetables that I've never seen before
They're just really healthy and it's way harder to cook healthy things than to just load everything with butter and cheese and cream, so I'm learning a lot but it's really hard cooking things you've never even eaten before especially when you have to prepare crew dinner in the middle of it all, and clean the entire boat, and do the laundy and serve the meal and do ALL the shopping and help out on deck... it's QUITE a lot of work! It's pretty challening and I've screwed up (quite) a few times but they're really understanding and they know I'm not a trained chef soooo it's okay. Live and learn... liiiiive and learn (Captain's words)
More wise words from the captain: live and LET live... that's one I'm really having to take on board this trip... mr deckhand is driving me UP the wall, not just up the wall ... up onto the bloody ceiling and down the other side again. There's basically no work for him to do because our captain is a superhero and I'm kind of a superwoman so between the two of us we do everything, he just sits in the crew's mess all day reading his comic books, playing on his Mac, eating ice cream and talking on the phone to his girlfriend... but let me not go there, enough complaining for one day. I'm really lucky to be doing what I am, we're seeing such beautiful places and... I have the day off tomorrow and I'm heading to Rome, eeeeeeeeeeee
