What to expect on a visit to Scooter.
Scooter has provided an awesome platform for friends and family to visit, and vacation safely. It’s also easier to convince people to visit a yacht in sunny California than an apartment in Cincinnati, so I’m happy.
With our visitors, we sometimes teeter on the edge of spending too much time eating and thinking about food (assuming that’s even possible). So here’s a weekend menu from a traditional visit.
Arrive Friday to a traditional sit-down dinner. An introduction to the boat, a cocktail to relieve travel stress, and something rich. Chicken picatta, pork tenderloin in a demi-glace, or maybe a steak dinner.
Saturday morning we generally have a classic breakfast; eggs, bacon, and home fried potatoes crisped in duck fat. We have yet to take pictures of that meal though, so our reader will have to use their imagination. It’s slow, and lets us wake up our guests with the smell of bacon.
Lunch Saturday is our only meal, on average, we eat out. In-n-out burger, or some authentic tacos from our favorite hole-in-the-wall. This works cause Saturday tends to be explore, hike, beach day, or something else out and about.
Saturday dinner often follows the dinghy ride, so we cook something that I can make on auto pilot. Dinghy rides are magical because they’re so fun, we accidentally usually drink too much and stay out on the water past a normal dinner time. So my auto-pilot meals are fish tacos or indian curry.
Sunday mornings we’ve made a habit of sailing. So I’m at the helm and Taylor takes on breakfast. She’s mastered the art of pancakes from scratch, which is extra impressive because most of the time we’re missing most of the ingredients. No milk is fixed by water and heavy cream, no eggs apparently can be replaced with oil but the fluff of the whites is recreated by baking soda and vinegar, but we never have white vinegar so instead apple cider vinegar has to work. Every time, no matter the substitutions, the pancakes turn out delicious. since we may have done Indian the night before, the first round of pancakes are always yellow, pulling a little turmeric out of the pan (yes, we wash our dishes).
They get rounder over time.
Sunday lunch is the classic Char-scooter-ie board. The piest-de-resistance of the visit, since we’re out on the water, sails up, Pirates of the Caribean music playing in the background.
Sunday night we make sushi! Sushi lets the visitor participate and it’s hard to screw up. We have our little collection of condiments and toppings, and have access to great fresh fish at the local fishmongers.
Then the guests leave and Tay and I go back to our weekday meals. Oatmeal, Canned fish, ramen, and lentils!