Yearly Archives: 2017

barbecue cooking

cookery chat with david & sandra biddle

3: barbecue cooking

We had a bit of a quandary last week when we were out on our boat. Basking in the sun as we boated down the Oxford to Napton junction it was decided that it was too hot to heat up the boat cooking. Unlike most boats we don’t have any gas and all of our cooking is done on a Heritage Uno cooker, basically an AGA equivalent, it also supplies all of our heat, central heating and hot water as well.

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cookery chat with david and sandra biddle 2

cookery chat with david & sandra biddle

2: baked beano, corned beef & potato

herb gardenIt amazes us how wonderful some boats look with the addition of home grown pots of flowers. Many also have small herb pots. This is a great way to add flavour to your food at very little cost if growing from seed. We think the following herbs are essential and if you can this year or next try to start cultivating these.

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chicken balti

cookery chat with david & sandra biddle

1: chicken balti

We are David and Sandra Biddle, we have been boating now for around 25 years and currently own Captain Hastings a brightly coloured yellow Dutch barge style narrow boat. We retired when I reached 56 a couple of years ago and the first thing we did was to move on board of our boat and travel. In fact we did over a 1000 miles and 700+ locks in the first year. Nowadays we spend time both at the boat and our brick home in Northamptonshire.

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