A great recipe for cruising

 I was looking at some of the menus for the different cruise lines today, just before my lunch, thinking how delicious they all looked. It got me thinking about how many people rave about the food when they got back and I thought it might be nice to post a couple of recipes for you to enjoy and reminisce over. Or if you’ve got a cruise booked to whet your appetites. Most of these recipes are available on line but being a bit of an amateur chef I’ve put my own twist on them, you’ll have to let me know if it makes them total inedible.

Swedish Meatballs.

500g of minced pork
1 egg white
100ml single cream
60g bread crumbs
1tsp rock salt
½ tsp white pepper
1tsp black pepper
½ onion
1 heaped tsp of paprika

Step 1 Place all the pork into a bowl. Add the egg, cream and bread crumbs first. Mix thoroughly. Than add the salt, white pepper black pepper and paprika, again, mix thoroughly.
Step 2 Take some of the pork and roll it into your hand into the shape of a ball about an inch across. Repeat this process until all the pork has been used up.
Step 3 Heat a flat bottomed frying pan and add a little vegetable or olive oil. Quickly sear the outside of the meatballs until they turn a pale brown, (depending on the size of your pan you might need to do this in batches). Transfer them to a preheated oven at gas mark 6 until thoroughly browned and cooked through, (about 15- 20mins should do it)
Step 4 Enjoy

Jamaican Jerked Pork

There are a thousand and one different recipes for Jamaican jerk but the following is my favourite, feel free to change it to suit your own tastes, it will still be just as authentic.

1tsp Thyme
1 ½ tsp Cayenne pepper
1 ½ tsp Black pepper
1 ½ tsp Sage
4 cloves of garlic
¼ cup of olive oil
¼ cup of soy sauce
1 freshly squeezed lime
6 spring onions
Fresh chillies to taste (add as many or as little as you like depending on taste).
Belly draught pork

Step 1 With the exception of the pork blenderise all your ingredients into a thick sauce. You may need to add a little water if you find it is too thick.
Step 2 Place all the pork into an oven proof dish and thoroughly coat with the sauce. Cover in tinfoil and marinade for at least twelve hours in the fridge.
Step 3 This is best cooked on a barbeque but depending on weather grilling will work just as well but depending on the thickness of the meat make sure it is cooked right through before serving.
Step 4 Enjoy

New York Style Burgers

4 tsp butter
1sp basil
½ tsp thyme
1 ½ tsp parsley
2lbs minced beef
Pinch of salt
½ tsp black pepper
8 tomato slices
4 red onions
1 lettuce
8 soft white baps

Step 1 Soften the butter by stirring in a bowl. Blend in the herbs. Roll into a log. Wrap in grease proof paper of Clingfilm and freeze.
Step 2 Form the meat into balls. Cut the frozen butter into slices. Insert a slice of butter into the middle of each ball and form into a burger about one inch thick. Grill the burgers thoroughly.
Step 3 Lightly toast the baps on the inside only and garnish with a tomato slice, lettuce leaf and some red onion.
Step 4 Place the burger on the baps and serve
Step 5 Enjoy

  Let me know if you enjoy the recipes or would like to see any others from a particular meal you enjoyed. I accept no responsibility or liability for any food poisoning that may occur, (that ones aimed at my wife), and I would love to hear what people think of the food they received onboard the different cruise lines, whos best?

And as always happy cruising.